diff --git a/03_1_Verifying_Your_Bitcoin_Setup.md b/03_1_Verifying_Your_Bitcoin_Setup.md
index 52c5a6e..fe5f49e 100644
--- a/03_1_Verifying_Your_Bitcoin_Setup.md
+++ b/03_1_Verifying_Your_Bitcoin_Setup.md
@@ -45,15 +45,13 @@ You can do this by looking at a blocknet explorer, such as [the Blockcypher Test
 
 If you'd like an alias to look at everything at once, the following currently works for Testnet, but may disappear at some time in the future:
 ```
-$ cat >> ~/.bash_profile << EOF
-alias btcblock="echo \\\`bitcoin-cli -testnet getblockcount 2>&1\\\`/\\\`wget -O - https://blockstream.info/testnet/api/blocks/tip/height 2> /dev/null | cut -d : -f2 | rev | cut -c 1- | rev\\\`"
-EOF
+$ echo "alias btcblock='echo \$(bitcoin-cli -testnet getblockcount)/\$(curl -s https://blockstream.info/testnet/api/blocks/tip/height)'" >> .bash_profile
 $ source .bash_profile 
 $ btcblock
 1804372/1804372
 ```
 
-> :link: **TESTNET vs MAINNET:** Remember that this tutorial generally assumes that you are using testnet. If you're using the mainnet instead, you can retrieve the current block height with: `wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null`. You can replace the latter half of the `btcblock` alias (after `/`) with that.
+> :link: **TESTNET vs MAINNET:** Remember that this tutorial generally assumes that you are using testnet. If you're using the mainnet instead, you can retrieve the current block height with: `curl -s https://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount`. You can replace the latter half of the `btcblock` alias (after `/\$(`) with that.
 
 If you're not up-to-date, but your `getblockcount` is increasing, no problem. Total download time can take from an hour to several hours, depending on your setup.