Monitor Bitcoin price using Bitfinex API and the command line

How to utilize the Bitfinex exchange public API along with standard simple Linux/Unix utilities like "curl", "awk" and "watch" to display and visually monitor Bitcoin price.

There are couple of ways to customize the text displayed on command line. The "banner" command was the old way of doing things. Nowadays we can use TOIlet the free figlet replacement/alternative!

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Check my blog post to copy/paste the working full command
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