What to use my FTC Countdown twitter bot for now?
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I have already been asking this of the team, but figured I really should open the question up to everyone to try and make it useful to as many people as possible.
Now we have hardforked to Neoscrypt the countdown twitter bot has stopped, but I would like to re-purpose it to keep it useful.
My twitter bot has full access to feathercoind so has full access to all the featehrcoind commands.
I can also look up the feathercoin website API to get prices.
One suggestion was to get it to daily tweets on daily price, daily hashrate average, average block time etc.
Need to have a think on how to work out daily hashrate average, but certainly daily price and daily average block times are easy.
Can anyone else think of something else they would like it to do?
For those that don’t know what I’m talking about this is the twitter account
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well price and hashrate would be nice
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Price and hashrate and what if it changed regarding the previous day like up or down.
Fetch the avg price ask/sell from Cryptsy -
Price and hashrate and what if it changed regarding the previous day like up or down.
Fetch the avg price ask/sell from CryptsyYeah I like that idea… Something like
Price $0.04 up 17%
Hashrate 45mhs up 30%
Difficulty 2.9 up 40% -
Yeah I like that idea… Something like
Price $0.04 up 17%
Hashrate 45mhs up 30%
Difficulty 2.9 up 40%That’s certainly achievable.
What do you think would be most useful a 24 hour average, taking a spot reading once an hour (or even twice an hour) and getting an average for the day to work with, or would you just prefer it just based one reading at a set time?
In theory I can check and record those values a couple times a minute without too much problems, but that would then lead to large number sets to crunch to give me outputs which I would prefer not to do, while 24 or 48 values a day to average out is acheivable.
Also do you prefer price based on BTCE which s what sets the market, or Cryptsy which has lower volume but is more granular in pricing?
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Hmm good questions in theory just 1 reading a day would do for now but your right an average would be more telling.
I guess its up to you with the price which ever API you prefer. You could even just use the Feathercoin API?
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I guess its up to you with the price which ever API you prefer. You could even just use the Feathercoin API?
I already have the code written to use the Feathercoin API which I’m pretty sure is based on BTCE, so that is my preference as I’ve already got a Python module all set to go on that.
But if the majority wanted Cryptsy I would of looked into it as having a module written that could interface with Cryptsy’s API wouldn’t be a bad thing, but don’t want to give myself more work if I don’t have to.
So will go with Feathercoin’s API which is based on BTCE’s price unless I get hoards requesting otherwise.
It will probablty take me a week or two to get it all written, and tested before I let it lose on twitter.
Would also be nice to actually have a database that could save all this data and a web frontend that could be used to look it up, but thats something for another day and a whole load of new skills I would need to teach myself…
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Sounds awesome cheers tmuir12 :)
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I can help you with the php code for Cryptsy if you like cause i made somethng for my profit calculator with mysql backend.
Storing last diff price and such for about 7 days in a roundrobin kinda way. You can prob use that for the website frontend -
A mock layout for twitter which gives me 7 characters to spare to use if percentages go over 100%, or diff goes to 2 full digits.
If we move into the Gh/s too though I will need to ‘find’ some extra characters by compacting other things.
this is just a mock up and things may change by the time I’ve finished everything
#Feathercoin Hi $0.065 Low $0.055 Ave $0.060 02% Up
Hashrate Hi 220Mhs Low 130Mhs Ave 180mhs 05% Up
Dif Hi 6.1 low 4.2 Ave 5.2 Dn 03%Need to have worked out what exactly I want it to do before I start coding anything
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I think Av is at least same understandable if not more then Ave
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Yes was debating that, think I will change it to Av to give me a three extra spare characters
