[erlang-questions] bitcoin blockchain

[Joe Armstrong]

A few  questions.

1) How big is the current bitcoin blockchain ?

2) How can I download the first 1000 blocks in the bitcoin blockchain ?
    Is there a web server that can give me the N'th block????

(I don't want to download the entire blockchain - and then take the
first 1000 blocks)

3) Has anybody written an erlang blockchain checker - I'd want
to validate the first 1000 blocks

Cheers

/Joe