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bitcoin

Description

An interface to bitcoind's JSON-RPC API.

The source for this egg is available at https://bitbucket.org/evhan/chicken-bitcoin.

Requirements

• uri-common
• http-client
• medea

Usage

Function names and signatures match those listed in the bitcoind API reference. JSON responses are translated into Scheme datatypes according to medea's conversion rules.

When an error response is received from bitcoind, an exception of type (exn bitcoin) is raised.

   > (use bitcoin)
   > (define c (make-bitcoind-connection "http://user:pass@localhost:8332"))
   > (getblockcount c)
   215673
   > (getblock c 123456)
   "0000000000002917ed80650c6174aac8dfc46f5fe36480aaef682ff6cd83c3ca"
   > (getinfo c)
   ((version . 70200)
    (protocolversion . 60002)
    (walletversion . 60000)
    (balance . 12.0)
    (blocks . 215673)
    (connections . 0)
    (proxy . "")
    (difficulty . 2979636.61693807)
    (testnet . #f)
    (keypoololdest . 1357260660)
    (keypoolsize . 108)
    (paytxfee . 0.0)
    (errors . ""))

License

Evan Hanson, WTFPL