A simple calculator that understands Bitcoin Units
Basic example
$ bcalc 1 msat + 2 sats + 3 bits to msats
302001 msats
BTC to satoshis
$ bcalc 0.02 BTC
2000000 sats
satoshis to millisatoshis (for payment channels), also dont print unit
$ bcalc --no-unit 100 sat to msats
100000
mBTC + bits to BTC
$ bcalc 100 mBTC + 20 bits to btc
0.10002 BTC
Division
$ bcalc 1 BTC / 100 to bits
10000 bits
Multiplication
$ bcalc '10 mbtc * 30 to bits'
300000 bits
Fiat currencies
$ bcalc --price 20000 30 usd to bits
1500 bits
$ bcalc --price 16000 780 bits to fiat
12.48 usd
The Bitcoin pizzas
$ bcalc --price 0.0041 41 usd to btc
10000 BTC
Chain analysis
$ bitcoin-iterate -q --output=%oa --start 0 --end 80000 | sed 's,$, sats to btc,g' | bcalc | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n5
84634 50 BTC
9778 0.01 BTC
7829 0.05 BTC
3064 5 BTC
1326 0.02 BTC
If on Ubuntu, check you have the prerequisites to build this package
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential bison flex
Build and install
$ make install
If you run into errors because your user doesn't have write access to /usr/local/bin then
$ sudo make install
- BTC,
- mBTC (milli-bitcoin),
- bits (μBTC, micro-bitcoin),
- finney,
- satoshi (sat),
- millisatoshi (msat),