Automatically Get Bitcoin Difficulty, Bitcoins/Block, Exchange Rate Statistics What can I do to programmatically get statistics such as current Bitcoin difficulty, Bitcoin award per block, USD/BTC exchange rate?
You can get...


difficulty from: http://blockexplorer.com/q/getdifficulty
reward per block from: http://blockexplorer.com/q/bcperblock
exchange rate from: http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/weighted_prices.json

or from: http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/markets.json



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See list of other bitcoin stats here.