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guo-yu/btc
a command-line bitcoin price board for geeks
A terminal dashboard that polls multiple Bitcoin exchanges and displays live prices in a table. Written in 2013-era Node.js, last touched in 2024 only in the most superficial sense — the git history shows almost no real activity after 2014. For anyone who wanted a quick BTC price check in the terminal a decade ago.
- Dead simple to install and run — one npm install and you get a working price board with keyboard shortcuts
- The exchanger abstraction in libs/exchanges.js is clean enough that adding a new exchange means dropping in a URL and a currency field, nothing more
- Callback-based API is straightforward for programmatic use if you just want to fetch prices from a specific exchange
- Every exchange it lists — BTCChina, BTC-e, Coinbase (old API), OKCoin, and the rest — is either dead, rebranded, or has completely changed its API since 2013. This thing almost certainly fails on first run.
- No tests exist despite the contributing guide claiming features should be 'fully tested' — the test suite mentioned in package.json is phantom
- Hardwired to Bitcoin only; the name suggests crypto broadly but there's no path to adding ETH or anything else without forking the core logic
- The README still links to Sina Weibo CDN for the logo image, which returns 404. Small detail, but it tells you everything about the maintenance state of this project.