A tiny status bar widget for OS X that displays the latest USD/BTC spot price from BitStamp, BTCe, Coinbase, and MtGox.
Here is how btcbar looks in your status bar:
And how you can select a ticker:
Simply place btcbar.app in your /Applications folder, and optionally add it to Login Items in System Preferences > Users & Groups to display it automatically on startup.
The current version of btcbar (2.1.1) can be downloaded here:
https://github.com/nearengine/btcbar/releases/download/v2.1.1/btcbar_2_1_1.zip
It requires OS X 10.7+ and a 64-bit processor.
- Enables live prices in menu
- Fixes a minor bug in the ticker switching code
- New BTCe/USD ticker
- Manually refreshes when a ticker is clicked
- Decreases disk io/cpu time/power usage
- Greatly increases modularity (tickers now have a protocol, menu is dynamically generated)
- Adds Bitstamp and Coinbase, and a little better backend abstraction so it will be easier to add future tickers.
TODO:
- Live updating prices for each menu item in the dropdown
- More robust abstraction of tickers/dynamic menu
- The first release, which uses MtGox's USD ticker API.
This project currently retains my copyright, although I am considering moving to a FOSS license as it matures.
The source is provided for inspection, considering the nature of Bitcoin. You are free to download and build for personal use, but please don't redistribute this project yet.
If for some reason you feel like donating a few micro btc to future development, those should go here:
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