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Bitcoin Explore

Explore the Bitcoin Blockchain in the Terminal

Get information about a block or transaction, quickly and easily right from your terminal.

Install

Add package to Cargo.toml file

$ cargo install bitcoin-explore

Setup:

Must have these environment variable set for the terminal to work. Could go in your .zshrc, .bashrc, or set when running the script.

export BITCOIND_PASSWORD="..." 
export BITCOIND_USERNAME="..." 
export BITCOIND_URL="127.0.0.1:8332"

when running the script...

 BITCOIND_PASSWORD=... BITCOIND_USERNAME=...BITCOIND_URL=... bitcoin-explore 400000

Usage

 $ bitcoin-explore <blockhash|blockheight|txid>

Examples

get block at height 400,000

 $ bitcoin-explore 400000

get block with hash

 $ bitcoin-explore 00000000000000000008f1856244c2a991063b5f4a2d86a5f3935341ae508b8a

get transaction with hash

 $ bitcoin-explore 4a20c13b5fa0a867bcc2d99834f11bb0e36ea683cd4c7310b1f12c51ccf3ccca

Related

• bitcoin-terminal-dashboard - Bitcoin Dashboard in the terminal
• bitcoind-request - Type-safe wrapper around bitcoind RPC commands
• bitcoin-node-query - Query information about the bitcoin network

License

MIT © Joe Gesualdo