Bitcoin Transaction Watcher Slack Bot

Slack bot that will watch the bitcoin transactions based on ID

• can watch on mainnet/testnet/signet, will use mainnet as default
• has a dependency on mempool.space to keep track of the transactions and be notified when a new block comes in

NOTE:

• If the bot goes down, the state of all transactions being watched will be saved in a .bin file & it will be reloaded on the next successful startup. This data is deleted as the transaction's # of confirmations have passed or 2 weeks have passed since the request occured.

How to use in a slack channel:

• bot command options:
  • asking to watch a bitcoin transaction on mainnet for 3 confirmations:
  • asking to watch a bitcoin transaction on testnet for 2 confirmations:
  • asking to watch a bitcoin transaction on signet for 2 confirmations:

Install Binary On Linux

• Create a bot and grab it's SLACK_AUTH_TOKEN & SLACK_APP_TOKEN by following this guide (the needed permissions will be the same as the 'Slack Events API Call' bot): https://www.bacancytechnology.com/blog/
• Run ./download.sh -v <release version> from the root of the repo, the possible releases to download are on this project's github
• Update the .env file in the newly created service folder to include SLACK_AUTH_TOKEN & SLACK_APP_TOKEN
• Run ./install.sh from the root of the repo to create a background systemd service name tx-tracker
• Use systemctl status tx-tracker to check the service is up and running
• Add the bot to your slack channel, using the previously linked guide as a reference

Build:

• git clone git@github.com:tee8z/tx-tracker.git
• go mod tidy

Run Bot:

(make sure to change default.env to .env & update the values first):

• go run cmd/tx-tracker/main.go