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Sjors / bitcoin-pay.rb
Last active April 9, 2024 16:50
This script demonstrates how a bitcoin transaction is created and signed. Just pass in your own address and private key and it will prepare a transaction for you. You can then copy & paste that transaction into a webservice like Blockchain to send it. I wrote this mostly to understand better how it works. I sometimes had to "cheat" and look at t…
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open-uri'
require 'JSON'
require 'digest/sha2'
require 'pry'
require 'bigdecimal'
require 'bitcoin' # Because I need to cheat every now and then
# Usage:
# gem install pry json ffi ruby-bitcoin