poppingtonic/termcoin

A bitcoin wallet for your terminal.

termcoin

A bitcoin wallet for your terminal.

termcoin is written in node.js, using blessed, and uses bitcoind (and optionally other cryptocurrency rpc servers) as its backend.

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Usage

$ termcoin

termcoin by default tries to connect to the bitcoin rpc server in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf, but it can also be specified directly:

$ termcoin http://bitcoinrpc:foobar@localhost:8332/

To use for other cryptocurrencies:

$ termcoin -c litecoin

Advantages

• Runs in a terminal. Possible to use over ssh. Easier than using bitcoind directly.
• Uses bitcoind as a backend, which means it is also possible to use with litecoin/namecoin/dogecoin/etc.

Shortcomings

The bitcoin rpc server is limited in what it could do. Ideally I wanted this to have all the capabilities of a full wallet, but that would require, for example, linking to to berkeley db to parse the wallet.dat. I wanted to write this entirely in node.

External Dependencies

• bitcoind - json-rpc server
• qrencode - for QR codes rendered in your terminal.
• xsel/xclip - clipboard support for X11.
• pbcopy - clipboard support for OSX.

Donations

• BTC: 14UwZi7hY2gQKUvA1Poz7vyxK9SzwAJ6CR
• LTC: Lg2FyTZn1YRGMUAbL5xYhmjiCZvWM6f2Z1
• DOGE: DAwtjssd9y3HQp5vTXqZhsdshxkDzDXoRT
• COYE: 5Vqi6WYbK6fixQ4A1ypiJZXJtJkMBnAfpu

Contribution and License Agreement

If you contribute code to this project, you are implicitly allowing your code to be distributed under the MIT license. You are also implicitly verifying that all code is your original work. </legalese>

License

Copyright (c) 2014, Christopher Jeffrey. (MIT License)

See LICENSE for more info.