diff --git a/lib/blocks.js b/lib/blocks.js
index 4bb4ede..1a4dfbb 100644
--- a/lib/blocks.js
+++ b/lib/blocks.js
@@ -125,9 +125,11 @@ BlockController.prototype._normalizePrevHash = function(hash) {
 };
 
 BlockController.prototype.transformBlock = function(block, info) {
+
   var transactionIds = block.txs.map(function(tx) {
     return tx.txid();
   });
+
   return {
     hash: block.rhash(),
     size: block.size,
@@ -139,14 +141,14 @@ BlockController.prototype.transformBlock = function(block, info) {
     time: block.ts,
     nonce: block.nonce,
     bits: block.bits,
-    difficulty: null,
+    difficulty: this._header.getDifficulty(),
     chainwork: info.chainwork,
-    confirmations: null,
-    previousblockhash: bcoin.util.revHex(block.prevBlock),
+    confirmations: this._block.getTip().height - info.height + 1,
+    previousblockhash: info.prevHash,
     nextblockhash: null,
     reward: null,
-    isMainChain: null,
-    poolInfo: this.getPoolInfo(block)
+    isMainChain: true,
+    poolInfo: this.getPoolInfo(block.txs[0])
   };
 };
 
@@ -194,36 +196,28 @@ BlockController.prototype._getBlockSummary = function(hash, moreTimestamp, next)
     finish(summaryCache);
   } else {
     self._block.getRawBlock(hash, function(err, blockBuffer) {
+
       if (err) {
         return next(err);
       }
 
-      var br = new bitcore.encoding.BufferReader(blockBuffer);
+      var block = bcoin.block.fromRaw(blockBuffer, 'hex');
 
-      // TODO: take a shortcut to get number of transactions and the blocksize.
-      // Also reads the coinbase transaction and only that.
-      // Old code parsed all transactions in every block _and_ then encoded
-      // them all back together to get the binary size of the block.
-      // FIXME: This code might still read the whole block. Fixing that
-      // would require changes in bitcore-node.
-      var header = bitcore.BlockHeader.fromBufferReader(br);
-      var info = {};
-      var txlength = br.readVarintNum();
-      info.transactions = [bitcore.Transaction().fromBufferReader(br)];
+      self._header.getBlockHeader(hash, function(err, header) {
 
-      self._header.getBlockHeader(hash, function(err, blockHeader) {
         if (err) {
           return next(err);
         }
-        var height = blockHeader.height;
+        var height = header.height;
 
         var summary = {
-          height: height,
-          size: blockBuffer.length,
+          height: header.height,
+          size: block.size,
+          virtualSize: block.virtualSize,
           hash: hash,
-          time: header.time,
-          txlength: txlength,
-          poolInfo: self.getPoolInfo(info)
+          time: header.timestamp,
+          txlength: block.txs.length,
+          poolInfo: self.getPoolInfo(block.txs[0])
         };
 
         var _height = self._block.getTip().height;
@@ -319,8 +313,11 @@ BlockController.prototype.list = function(req, res) {
   });
 };
 
-BlockController.prototype.getPoolInfo = function(block) {
-  var coinbaseBuffer = block.txs[0].inputs[0].script.raw;
+BlockController.prototype.getPoolInfo = function(tx) {
+  if (!tx) {
+    return {};
+  }
+  var coinbaseBuffer = tx.inputs[0].script.raw;
 
   for(var k in this.poolStrings) {
     if (coinbaseBuffer.toString('utf-8').match(k)) {
diff --git a/lib/status.js b/lib/status.js
index eb6029f..4aead19 100644
--- a/lib/status.js
+++ b/lib/status.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ var Common = require('./common');
 function StatusController(node) {
   this.node = node;
   this.common = new Common({log: this.node.log});
+  this._header = this.node.services.header;
 }
 
 StatusController.prototype.show = function(req, res) {
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ StatusController.prototype.show = function(req, res) {
 };
 
 StatusController.prototype.getInfo = function(callback) {
-  this.node.services.bitcoind.getInfo(function(err, result) {
+  this._header.getInfo(function(err, result) {
     if (err) {
       return callback(err);
     }
diff --git a/lib/utils.js b/lib/utils.js
index e4ddeec..063d02b 100644
--- a/lib/utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ var Common = require('./common');
 
 function UtilsController(node) {
   this.node = node;
+  this._fee = this.node.services.fee;
   this.common = new Common({log: this.node.log});
 }
 
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ UtilsController.prototype.estimateFee = function(req, res) {
   async.map(nbBlocks, function(n, next) {
     var num = parseInt(n);
     // Insight and Bitcoin JSON-RPC return bitcoin for this value (instead of satoshis).
-    self.node.services.bitcoind.estimateFee(num, function(err, fee) {
+    self._fee.estimateFee(num, function(err, fee) {
       if (err) {
         return next(err);
       }