 More and more people are trading cryptocurrencies these digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin Library credits, LBCs and you know the the price of these things are exploding. You can see today I am in the Qtile window manager and in my panel I have this little widget that tells me the current price for Bitcoin you see BTC the current price is $47,000 and that is just incredible I remember early last year when I really started You know first playing a little bit with some crypto because I was getting paid crypto LBC credits on the library and you know bat and Brave and you know a lot of times I would convert those things to Bitcoin and the price of Bitcoin Early last year when I first started, you know paying attention to these sorts of things was like $8,000 and then like a month later that the price of Bitcoin had exploded. It was worth $12,000 you know and then $25,000 $30,000 you know it was $30,000 something thousand at the beginning of this year and it's almost $50,000 now and where is the ceiling? I don't know a lot of people are trading these digital currencies now And I don't think we've hit the ceiling yet. I don't think $50,000 is the ceiling for Bitcoin I think $100,000 is more than likely where it's going to you know Plateau ad and then probably come back down, you know correct itself and you know for those of us that are Speculating a little bit with these digital currencies because I like trading I like trading stocks and options and currencies as well And sometimes I just need to know the latest information I want to know the latest exchange rates on these digital currencies and and I just want quick and easy Information and that's kind of why I have this little desktop widget here in Qtile It's because I can get that information very quickly, but what if I'm not in Qtile or I didn't have a widget set up Well, there are several Nice command-line tools where you can get these prices very quickly today I wanted to share with you a couple of really neat command-line tools that will get you the exchange rates for all these cryptocurrencies probably the most common tool that people know about as far as command-line tools regarding cryptocurrencies is really just Curling a website those of you know that the curl command there is a website out there called rate dot sx And their source code is hosted over on github rate dot sx And you just open up a terminal and you curl that URL So let me show you that and let me go ahead and open a terminal and I'm gonna zoom in here and They get rid of that line and let's run this command curl rate dot sx with no other arguments and By default you get I guess the 10 most popular cryptocurrencies Bitcoin Ethereum USDT and some other stuff like coin is in the mix here And you get the latest rates on all of those so that is a very simple command Of course, but you could implement that curl command and scripting You know you could filter out, you know the columns that you wanted and you know, you could do something I like make your own Bitcoin ticker like what's going on here in Qtile matter of fact Qtile the widget it's a built-in widget I'm not exactly sure what they are using to get their information. They may actually be pulling from rate dot sx I could check the source code here in a minute and we could actually check that out for sure now other than just curling You know rate dot sx you could do rate dot sx and then a slash and then give it the symbol For the coin that you're actually interested in for example BTC I just do that it will give me a chart for Bitcoin and this is really really neat It's the chart from yesterday's trading day Because I'm actually recording this on a Friday and it's showing me Thursday So I guess it's always the previous business day that it shows although it does give me the current end for Friday as well So one other neat thing you can do is if instead of curling rate dot sx and then slash BTC if I just wanted an exchange rate on a certain number of coins for example, I could do five BTC so curl rate dot sx slash five BTC and it will give me the dollar amount for five BTC which is currently two hundred and thirty six thousand dollars. So that is rate dot sx Really, there's nothing to install if you have curl installed on your Linux distribution Almost all Linux distributions have curl already installed Just open up a terminal run the curl command and specify the coin that you're interested in getting the rate or the chart for the next Command line utility. I want to show you you do need to install It's a program called coin mine and you can install it using NPM if you want to or if you're on an arch based Distribution like I am I found coin mine in the AUR and it's a rather Simple program to use but it's very powerful Which is the reason I'm talking about it today is because I just find these kinds of programs neat So if I run coin mine with no other arguments very similar to curling rate dot sx You get a chart of the 10 most popular digital currencies and their current rates if you wanted to specify a number of Currencies to display in the chart You don't have to do just in so you could do coin mine Dash T and then give it a number like I don't know give me the top 50, you know That's a rather large chart. Let's run that again. It's at this time. Just do the top five Of course oftentimes you're looking for the rate of just one currency. That's typically what I want So this is the command I would typically use coin mine dash f and then specify a coin Like I want to know the current price of LBC because I've got some LBC stored away and right now LBC is trading for 14 cents almost 15 cents. Wow, that is exploded in price LBC is very much correlated with the price of Bitcoin So as Bitcoin explodes in price LBC is doing well as well Also, you could do more than one coin like you could specify exactly what you want other than just one coin I could do LBC comma ETH for a theorem comma BTC for Bitcoin and now I'll get a chart with those three currencies And that's really all there is to coin mine if I did to coin mine space dash H for help There there's all the flags when we talked about the dash T flag and the dash F flag That's the only ones there are dash H Of course is just the help flag and dash V gives us the current version of coin mine So coin mine and curling rate dot sx. There's really not much to them. You can get the rate She might can get a chart, you know, but that's about it But that's that's all you need, right? This is just quick and dirty information And because these are rather simple command line utilities It wouldn't be that difficult to implement these things into scripts You could probably even get these things to work with something like D menu or Rofi And of course, I did mention in Qtile at least there is the built-in widget for the Bitcoin ticker here in the panel And I did say I was gonna look at the source code to see if I could find the source code for that to see What they are using here in Qtile So if I go to the built-in widget list for Qtile there's a lot of built-in widgets that you can use for the panel and the one we're looking for is the Bitcoin ticker and Then if I look at their source code for the Bitcoin ticker widget Let's see what website they are querying to get the the Bitcoin price. It looks like they are using Coinbase.com looks like they're using the API for coinbase.com to get that information So pretty cool. By the way, CoinMon was also querying some other some website to get its information It was querying coin cap APIs so that was just a very quick look at a couple of really simple tools You can use in the terminal to quickly get the price of whatever digital currency that you're interested in Before I go I need to think a few special people I need to think the producers of this episode abseed, Dallas Devon, Fran, Gabe, Lou, Corbinian, Mitchell, Akami, Archfitch, 530, Chris, Chuck, David, David, David, David, Donnie, Dylan, Gregory, Lewis, Paul, Pick, Vm, Scott, Wes, and Willie. 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