bitfin

bitfin

Utility to manage your Bitstamp account. You may put these scripts into cron jobs to do DCA (Dollar-Cost Averaging) on your cryptocurrency investments.

setup

You'll need to provide the following environment variables. The API key pair can be created under the Security tab in your Bitstamp account.

• BITSTAMP_ACCOUNT_ID
• BITSTAMP_API_KEY
• BITSTAMP_API_SECRET

You can opt to place these in a JSON document named .env.json at the root of this repository's directory.

buy.js

The following command will attempt to place a single market order to purchase USD $ 100 worth of BTC.

node buy 100

You can choose the currency you want to purchase by changing the TO environment variable. The following command will attempt to buy USD $ 100 worth of LTC.

TO=LTC node buy 50

You can choose the currency you want to spend using FROM. The following command will attempt to buy 0.5 BTC worth of ETH.

FROM=BTC TO=ETH node buy 0.5

You can define limits on how much you'd like to spend. The following command attempts to buy USD $ 500 worth of ETH, provided the market price for 1 ETH is somewhere between USD $ 200 and USD $ 800.

TO=ETH MIN=200 MAX=800 node buy 500

The TO, FROM, MIN, and MAX variables can be placed in .env.json or in .env.defaults.json.

variables

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
BITSTAMP_ACCOUNT_ID	Your Bitstamp account ID	undefined
BITSTAMP_API_KEY	Your Bitstamp API key	undefined
BITSTAMP_API_SECRET	Your Bitstamp API secret	undefined
FROM	Currency you want to spend	'USD'
TO	Currency you want to purchase	'BTC'
MIN	Minimum acceptable market asking price	2000
MAX	Maximum acceptable market asking price	8000

license

mit