Btc Energy
by PreReason in Onchain & crypto
Bitcoin mining economics. Production cost model, hashprice, natural gas pressure. Energy cost and mining profitability for crypto research agents. A paid call serves today or any ?date= on record.
https://api.prereason.com/api/btc/energy- Price
- $0.05
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 642 ms
- 909 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 4 min ago, next in 27 min
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://api.prereason.com/api/btc/energy
Each call costs $0.05 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://api.prereason.com/api/btc/energy?format=jsonParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
date | string | No | Historical date in YYYY-MM-DD format. A paid call serves today or any ?date= on record. |
format | string | No | Response format. markdown is token-optimized for LLMs, json is structured. Default is markdown. One of: json, markdown. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 41 lines
{
"briefing_metadata": {
"correlations_count": 3,
"description": "Mining economics - production cost model, natural gas input costs, and energy margin pressure",
"metrics_count": 10,
"name": "Energy Cost Index"
},
"briefing_used": "btc.energy",
"metrics": {
"bitcoin-difficulty": {
"name": "bitcoin-difficulty"
},
"bitcoin-hash-rate": {
"name": "bitcoin-hash-rate"
},
"bitcoin-price": {
"name": "bitcoin-price"
},
"energy-pressure": {
"name": "energy-pressure"
},
"gas-input-cost": {
"name": "gas-input-cost"
},
"hashprice": {
"name": "hashprice"
},
"hashprice-7d-smoothed": {
"name": "hashprice-7d-smoothed"
},
"natural-gas-price": {
"name": "natural-gas-price"
},
"price-to-production": {
"name": "price-to-production"
},
"production-cost": {
"name": "production-cost"
}
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.05.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.prereason.com/api/btc/energy?format=json'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.prereason.com/api/btc/energy?format=json' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.prereason.com%2Fapi%2Fbtc%2Fenergy
const res = await pay("https://api.prereason.com/api/btc/energy?format=json");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://api.prereason.com/api/btc/energy?format=json")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
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| 4 min ago | Passed | 402 | 729 ms | $0.05 |
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