Speaking of BTC tickers, I also recently discovered this amazing, pure HTML, Bloomberg-terminal-like realtime BTC price site:<p><a href="http://bitcoinwisdom.com/" rel="nofollow">http://bitcoinwisdom.com/</a>
It saddens me that so much focus is being put on the <i>price speculation</i> aspect of Bitcoin. 9 out of 10 articles I see about Bitcoin are about its price. The last Senate hearing on Bitcoin was already quite aggressive about this, and some suggested that maybe Bitcoin should be regulated as a commodity instead.<p>Hopefully this price speculation frenzy of Bitcoin users won't lead to its demise, and to Bitcoin being declared (or at least thought about) as irreparably <i>not a currency</i>.
Looks nice- Everyone just remember that if you don't understand the source code or download it in a way that allows a "man in the middle" attack, there's nothing to stop this kind of program (or an MITM-altered version of it) from emptying out every bitcoin wallet you have installed on your computer.<p>(I for one will install this program though, on my non-wallet pc)
Somewhat unrelated, but I made a bitcoin LED ticker, here's a link to an early testing video:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxRIeb22QGI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxRIeb22QGI</a><p>I later added some other price information (gold, usd, s&p500)
Just pushed a tool that shows you your margins using the MtGox streaming api: <a href="https://github.com/tmc/btcmargin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tmc/btcmargin</a>
curl --silent <a href="https://bitpay.com/api/rates" rel="nofollow">https://bitpay.com/api/rates</a> | jq '.[0].rate'<p>Is what I use to get the current BitPay rate in USD