In the past few weeks I worked (20% of the time) on this new assistant application that will give you interesting information about Bitcoin.
Here is an example of what you can do:
- The price of bitcoin
- Market cap
- Blocks count
- Total amount of bitcoins
This is how the conversation looks like on the web simulator.
You open it with the main capabilities that it can provide:

…and keep offering other options of information:

Last but not least, make sure you have an intent that deal with ‘quit’ actions (e.g. “bye”) in this example:

You can try it on your Google Home and/or Assistant App today (e.g. just ask “talk to Bitcoin Info“) or take it for a test ride on the web.
The code is on this repo: github.com/greenido/bitcoin-info-action and it contain both a NodeJS and PHP examples for the web hook.
If you wish, you can clone this Glitch Action on Google template and use glitch as a server for your web hook.
Btw, if you didn’t see this intro for Bitcoin that I did in the past… Here you go.
Be strong!
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Hi, Cool video about the bitcoin intro. Very well explained the similarity between paper money and bitcoins.
Adding to it I came across this great beginner’s guide on bitcoin. Hope you’d like.
http://bitcoinaze.com/getting-bitcoin-game-starter/