This is the primary version of Coincheck. It is a port written in Go of an older, unmaintained version (see https://github.com/ayuopy/coincheck-old).
Once cloned, you can copy the binary to usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin to access it from all directories.
coincheck [-c] [COINS] ...
-c specify a 3 character currency code (e.g. gbp or eur) to use in place of USD
-h get help text
Fetch latest Bitcoin and Litecoin prices with case-insensitive symbol or name:
$ coincheck btc litecoin
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Rank Symbol Name USD Price BTC Price 24h Change 7d Change
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1 BTC Bitcoin 2630.19 1.0 -3.88% -6.49%
7 LTC Litecoin 30.26 0.0115921 1.41% 3.1%
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Fetch top 10 coins in GBP:
$ coincheck -c gbp
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Rank Symbol Name GBP Price BTC Price 24h Change 7d Change
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1 BTC Bitcoin 2065.09 1.0 -3.88% -6.49%
2 ETH Ethereum 296.00 0.144443 -3.36% 44.32%
3 XRP Ripple 0.22 0.00010835 10.05% -2.17%
4 XEM NEM 0.16 0.00008040 0.88% -6.71%
5 ETC Ethereum Classic 15.31 0.00746889 -3.36% 8.79%
6 IOT IOTA 0.45 0.00021896 -10.05% %
7 LTC Litecoin 23.76 0.0115921 1.41% 3.1%
8 DASH Dash 134.99 0.0658722 -4.17% 14.16%
9 BTS BitShares 0.26 0.00012849 -7.24% 196.59%
10 STRAT Stratis 6.78 0.00330785 0.36% -14.36%
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- Port feature from coincheck-old showing how much a currency has in/decreased in price since last searched for.
- Possibly change method used to find currency information as the Coin Market Cap API can be slow to call.