Termcoin – a bitcoin and altcoin terminal wallet for Linux

Here is a quick setup guide for having a beautiful text only terminal wallet for any cryptocurrency on Linux. The following example is for Ekrona coin and Debian 7.0, but it can be easily adapted to any altcoin and any linux distro.

Termcoin on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vhz89/termcoin_wallet_for_your_terminal/

Termcoin source: https://github.com/chjj/termcoin

Termcoin terminal wallet in action:

And here is the guide for Ekrona & Debian 7.0:

Prerequisites: You have a Debian linux with Ekrona server running.

If not, first install all dependencies for termcoin:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev

Install termcoin, node and blessed:

git clone https://github.com/chjj/termcoin

git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node

./configure –openssl-libpath=/usr/lib/ssl
make
make test
sudo make install

npm install blessed

cd termcoin/bin

And now start the termcoin client (credentials are from ekrona.conf):

termcoin http://user:password@localhost:9445