This is a Python script that converts a specified amount of Bitcoin in Satoshis to its equivalent value in US Dollars using the XBT/USD price from the Kraken API.
- Python 3.x
requestsmodule (you can install it usingpip install requests)
Run the script with the desired amount of Satoshis as a command-line argument. You can specify the amount as an integer or a floating-point number, optionally followed by a suffix "k" or "M" to represent thousands or millions of Satoshis, respectively.
For example, to convert 500,000 Satoshis to its equivalent value in US Dollars, run:
./bitcoin-usd 500000
./bitcoin-usd 500k
./bitcoin-usd 0.5MThe script will output the USD value rounded to 2 decimal places.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
The code and this readme were all written by chatGPT.