tl;dr
Hey everyone! I really love Obsidian, but unfortunately I don’t know how to write plugins and code in general. I would like to ask someone active to write a simple plugin to display information about the state of the Bitcoin network, which would parse data from one single site:
I will also be happy to pay 100,000 sats (0.001 btc) via Lightning Network as a thank you!
The Idea
I’m not good at creating plugins and writing code, but I’d like to see a plugin for Obsidian that would give some basic information about the state of the Bitcoin network. Such plugin would be very useful for many bitcoiners, many of whom I know use Obsidian.
I decided to write this post asking an interested developer to create a basic (and super simple) plugin that would parse information from the service: Dashboard | Clark Moody Bitcoin and automatically add that information to a note.
I was thinking that instead of just a timestamp in the daily notes metadata, I’d like to see the Bitcoin block height at the time I create a new note, and maybe some other info (sats per dollar, blocks to halving, etc)
Examples
As I said, the plugin could be very simple and just output the information by replacing a certain tag with data from the service above. Here is an example of how it could look like:
We could add a tag like it’s done in the Templater plugin: let’s say %blockheight%
would be automatically replaced in a new note with the block height information from the Dashboard | Clark Moody Bitcoin service.
Of course, you could go beyond just the block height information, but I don’t know how hard it would be to add all the parameters of the service this way. That’s why I will describe the most interesting parameters from this service that I would like to add to notes:
- Block Height |
%height%
- Blocks to Halving |
%halving%
- Sats per Dollar |
%moscowtime%
(it’s a local meme) - $ Price (someone will definitely find this useful too) |
%price%
- Supply: Percentage Issued |
%supply%
- Days Since ATH |
%sinceATH%
- Blockchain: Chain Size |
%chainsize%
- Hashrate |
%hashrate%
- Difficulty |
%diff%
- Reachable Bitcoin Nodes |
%nodes%
- Lightning Network Capacity |
%ln_capacity%
- Lightning Network Nodes |
%ln_nodes%
- Lightning Network Channels |
%ln_channels%
etc.
The Dashboard | Clark Moody Bitcoin consists only of public network data and nothing else, so I don’t think this information will be hard to get from there, but I’m not 100% sure.
Final word
This is my first post on the forum, so I might have made a mistake somewhere or written something wrong, but I tried to take into account the rules and describe my idea in detail. I will be glad to read any comments, even if you are not interested in the plugin itself.
P.S. to all bitcoiners here