Source: cirosantilli/blockchain-info

= Blockchain.info

TODO who owns it? Are they reliable?

* transaction hex data: https://blockchain.info/tx/930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72?format=hex
* disassembled transaction as JSON: https://blockchain.info/tx/930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72?format=json
* block by height:
  * https://blockchain.info/block/0?format=json
  * https://blockchain.info/block/0?format=hex

This helper dumps a transaction JSON to a binary:
``
bitcoin-tx-out-scripts() (
    # Dump data contained in out scripts. Remove first 3 last 2 bytes of
    # standard transaction boilerplate.
    h="$1"
    echo curl "https://blockchain.info/tx/${h}?format=json" |
    jq '.out[].script' tmp.json |
    sed 's/"76a914//;s/88ac"//' |
    xxd -r -p > "${h}.bin"
)
``