How to Check The Current Price of Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Straight From Your Linux Terminal

I am sure that every Linux user knows what command terminal is, though I can't say that every Linux user understands how powerful it can be. You can do lots of things from your Linux command prompt. You can several serious and funny actions such as Watch Star Wars, use StackOverflow, get Weather reports, access Google through terminal, use Wikipedia from command line, search and download torrent in terminal and even check the prices Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency from your terminal 

To get the prices of these cryptocurrencies, you'll to employ the use of an open source tool called Coinmon. It can be used to fetch the latest cryptocurrency trends, changes in the prices and lots more. You can use it to see which of the currency that dropped or gained value of the week. GitHub described the Coinmon tool as “the best CLI tool for Engineers who are crypto investors.” You have no need to worry about the authenticity of the results you get using Coinmon tool because it is fetched from coinmarketcap.com APIs which is reputed website in the cryptocurrency.

How to Check The Current Price of Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Straight From Your Linux Terminal

First you have to install Coinmon, and to install Coinmon, you have to make sure that you have at least Node version 6.0.0 (though a higher version would be better). To install Node on your Ubuntu, Debian, or Mint systems, run the following command;

1.   sudo apt-get install nodejs

2.   sudo apt-get install npm

Please note that you can also use yum, dnf, or pacman package manager in place of sudo in the case of other Linux Distro(s) besides Ubuntu.

Now that you finish installing Node, run this command sudo npm install -g coinmon to install Coinmon cryptocurrency price checking utility, the time it'll take depands on a network speed, but generally it takes a short time.

Then after installing the Coinmon tool, pull up your command terminal and just run this command coinmon to get the price Bitcoin as well as the price of all other cryptocurrencies.

The Coinmon tool also customizations which you are free to use as you please, so as to get your desired results. For instance, you can use -c or –convert with fiat currency symbol to find in term of other currency.

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The supported currencies, other than USD, are: AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, CLP, CNY, CZK, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, HUF, IDR, ILS, INR, JPY, KRW, MXN, MYR, NOK, NZD, PHP, PKR, PLN, RUB, SEK, SGD, THB, TRY, TWD, ZAR.

For instance, to convert 1BTC to Japanese Yuen, type in this command coinmon -c jpy -to convert prices to the Japanese yen. Or for Indian Rupee coinmon -convert inr - to convert prices to the Indian Rupee etc.

It doesn't end there, you can as well get the top 10 list of the most expensive coin in the market now, all you have to do is to run this command coinmon -t 50.

Coinmon tool also has some helpful tips and topics which can be accessed by typing coinmon -h.

So that is all about Coinmon cryptocurrency tool and how to use your Linux command terminal to check the price of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies.

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