Convert USD to bitcoin or get the latest value of bitcoin. The easiest way to get the bitcoin exchange rate
<?php
$amount=100;
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://blockchain.info/tobtc?currency=USD&value=" . $amount,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"cache-control: no-cache",
"postman-token: fc62ebce-6d0b-ef4f-ba02-fcb05e284a02"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $amount = json_decode($response);
?>
Above is programmatic code that you can use in your server but if you want to see in the browser then just do
https://blockchain.info/tobtc?currency=USD&value=100
Parameters
- currency – A currency code. See the list above.
- value – Value to convert.
Returns the value in BTC.
