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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.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in July 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →