I've released a new version 0.1.1. No major changes but performs better under a large transaction backlog (by limiting the mempool scatter plot to 5000 points).

Thanks dsattler!

Now that the wiki is back up, I've updated to the latest dumps and imported all the images.

The wiki seems to have gone down along with the forum after the recent hack. Hopefully theymos et al can get it restored soon. In the mean time, I've set up a mirror of the (English) wiki based on fairly recent dumps.

http://www.welshcomputing.com/bitcoin/wiki/en/Main_Page

About/limitations

What sort of information are you interested in displaying? One idea I had for Bitnomon was to give it a background mode where it just collects data over time, for something else to display. It's already storing traffic data in an RRDtool database, so putting those graphs on a web page would be pretty easy.

Do you run a full node? Ever wondered what was going on inside it, beyond the basics in the debug window? Maybe something to display full screen and watch the blockchain go by?

Announcing Bitnomon: an open-source, cross-platform*, graphical monitoring application for Bitcoin nodes.

• Home page
• On PyPI
• On GitHub

Technical support or other questions/comments are welcome here or privately.

* The current release targets Linux/Unix. The underlying technologies should support Windows and Mac, but easy installation options are not yet available. This is planned, assuming there's interest.

It has to be stored in plain text or equivalent, otherwise the user would have to provide the password every time they ran bitcoin-cli or any other API client. If someone had root access to be able to sniff internal packets, they could also get the password by recording keystrokes.

Authenticating a local service with a shared secret stored in a file with restricted permissions is not uncommon, by the way; for example, the X11 protocol and MySQL (by default) work the same way. On some platforms, including Linux, it's possible to check the peer UID through a Unix-domain socket, but I imagine the developers want to minimize platform-specific code.