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Economy => Service Announcements => Topic started by: sheldonkennedy on December 23, 2013, 04:22:48 AM



Title: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 23, 2013, 04:22:48 AM
Feedback welcome, I'll be doing some dev on it over the next few days/weeks, as well!

The site is: http://smscoincheck.com/

Mainly geared toward USA (for now). Simply send a text message and get the current price back.


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 23, 2013, 05:53:32 AM
Just updated to allow you to pull both mtgox and btce prices.


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 23, 2013, 09:54:42 PM
Updated to allow you to pull from coinbase now too!

More currencies and exchanges coming soon!


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 24, 2013, 09:16:39 PM
Added Bitstamp to the list now!


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: sheldonkennedy on January 15, 2014, 09:16:13 PM
Added BitcoinAverage to the list now!


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: sheldonkennedy on February 14, 2014, 09:17:48 PM
I would like anyone's opinion on this:

I'm thinking of changing up the code to allow the user to specify different currency pairs (not just btc/usd).

This would make more to text, but gives the user more information.

IE: If you want the DOGE/BTC price, you could send "doge btc exchange" to the number and it would reply back with the price.


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: browep on February 18, 2014, 01:27:03 AM
is there a way to get an average?  what happens if i just send "btc"  would it use the bitcoinaverage rate?


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: RGBKey on February 18, 2014, 01:38:57 AM
This is cool, nice project.


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: sheldonkennedy on February 18, 2014, 03:43:52 AM
is there a way to get an average?  what happens if i just send "btc"  would it use the bitcoinaverage rate?

There are a few 'indexes' out there (such as the coindesk index) that basically average all of the exchanges out. I guess Bitcoinaverage leverages something like this.

I could have it default, if someone just sends "btc" to use bitcoinaverage.


Title: Re: New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com
Post by: sheldonkennedy on June 16, 2014, 02:36:57 PM
I have done a simple but needed update:

- removed mtgox (did that awhile back)
- added kraken and bitfinex
- added a poll to let users request a country for support