Introduction of blockchain.com API

This section provides an introduction of Bitcoin blockchain.com API.

blockchain.com API is an Exchange API mainly for trading Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Its functions cover receiving real time market data, requesting balance information and performing trades.

To use blockchain.com API, you need to register yourself and generate an API key from your registered account.

Currently, the API base URL is https://api.blockchain.com/v3/exchange.

Some examples of API services are:

For example, if you want to know the current price of BTC-USD, you can run the following API:

GET https://api.blockchain.com/v3/exchange/tickers/BTC-USD

{
  "symbol": "BTC-USD",
  "price_24h": 46604.81,
  "volume_24h": 183.65840081,
  "last_trade_price": 47120.4
}

Visit https://api.blockchain.com/v3/ to see more details.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of Bitcoin

 Bitcoin Blockchain

 Bitcoin Wallet

 Bitcoin Core

 Bitcoin Transaction

 Bitcoin-Qt - Bitcoin Core GUI

 Bitcoin Mining

 Bitcoin Consensus Rules

 Bitcoin Block Data Structure

 Bitcoin Transaction Data Structure

Bitcoin Blockchain APIs

 Introduction of chain.so API

 chain.so API - Get Block Data

 chain.so API - Get Transaction Data

 chain.so API - Get Address Data

Introduction of blockchain.com API

 Introduction of blockexplorer.com API

 Copay - Bitcoin Wallet

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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