Online Bitcoin services
Before starting with online Bitcoin services, we need to know how to actually get the current price (in US dollars) of Bitcoin.
On the Web, it's quite easy to get the price or the historical value of Bitcoin. For example, a good website to look at is Coindesk:
http://www.coindesk.com/price/
On this website, you have access to the current price of Bitcoin, and also nice graphs showing the historical value of Bitcoin:
That's nice, but it is only accessible via the website and it's too complicated anyway for our little ESP8266 board.
A better solution is simply to have what is called a Bitcoin ticker that just displays the real-time ...
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