Bitcoin Explorer
Bitcoin Explorer (bx) is an advanced command line application that is included as part of libbitcoin-explorer. Extensive documentation and signed binaries for Linux, OSX and Windows are available on GitHub.
Examples
Generating a new bitcoin address:
$ bx seed | bx ec-new | bx ec-to-public | bx ec-to-address 13ua8RRSxLpL5WL5cKUDepUCvJZgGWuKh7
Executing a blockchain query against Libbitcoin Server via ZeroMQ:
$ bx fetch-tx 4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b transaction { hash 4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b inputs { input { previous_output { hash 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 index 4294967295 } script "[ 04ffff001d0104455468652054696d65732030332f4a616e2f32303039204368616e63656c6c6f72206f6e206272696e6b206f66207365636f6e64206261696c6f757420666f722062616e6b73 ]" sequence 4294967295 } } lock_time 0 outputs { output { address 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa script "[ 04678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef38c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d578a4c702b6bf11d5f ] checksig" value 5000000000 } } version 1 } Decoding Satoshi’s words:
$ bx base16-decode 04ffff001d0104455468652054696d65732030332f4a616e2f32303039204368616e63656c6c6f72206f6e206272696e6b206f66207365636f6e64206261696c6f757420666f722062616e6b73 ÿÿEThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
Posting a transaction directly to 10 nodes on the Bitcoin P2P network:
$ bx send-tx-p2p --nodes 10 0100000001b3807042c92f449bbf79b33ca59d7dfec7f4cc71096704a9c526dddf496ee0970100000069463044022039a36013301597daef41fbe593a02cc513d0b55527ec2df1050e2e8ff49c85c202204fcc407ce9b6f719ee7d009aeb8d8d21423f400a5b871394ca32e00c26b348dd2103c40cbd64c9c608df2c9730f49b0888c4db1c436e8b2b74aead6c6afbd10428c0ffffffff01905f0100000000001976a91418c0bd8d1818f1bf99cb1df2269c645318ef7b7388ac00000000 Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:09. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:09. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:09. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:12. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:12. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:15. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:15. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:19. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:20. Sent transaction at 2015-May-08 12:17:20.