bati

Bitcoin address total investment

With this cli you can know if a Bitcoin address is profitable or not.

It goes through each Utxo(a certain amount of cryptocurrency that has been authorized by a sender and is available to be spent by a recipient) of the given address and checks the USD price when the transaction occured.

Running

$ cargo run -- --address=<BTC_ADDRESS> --delay=<OPTIONAL_DELAY_IN_SECONDS>

Due to a limitation on CoinGecko api, if an address has more than 30 utxos, the api will fail with TOO_MANY_REQUESTS. By adding a delay as env var when running the application, we can mitigate that. This deeply affects the UX, but it's the only option I could think of right now.

Building

$ cargo build

Known issues and limitations

• If an address has more than 30 transactions, CoinGecko api will fail with a TOO_MANY_REQUESTS status code.
• CoinGecko only has historical price data from May 28th 2013. So if any address has transactions older than that, the app will crash. We can apply a handler for cases like this and assume a USD value of 0(zero) to avoid breaking the program.

Other

I am not a Rust developer myself, so this app could definitely use help 😅