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[PeterB]

Any ETA on the BTCGarden buyback?

[dexX7]

Is the API broken? /api/tradeHistory/ has massive delays.

[parseval]

Is the API broken? /api/tradeHistory/ has massive delays.

AFAIK, there's a 10 minute cache.  How long of a delay are you seeing? 

If you want something a little quicker, you can pull from my feed here (I plan on making it a little prettier eventually):

http://coinflow.co/livetrades

There's an SSE stream at /livetradeevents/ which aggregates data from assbot and assetbot on IRC.   It's not the 'definitive' source since it isn't the API (I use API data in the charts for BTCTC, not assbot data), but it's still reliable.

[dexX7]

Is the API broken? /api/tradeHistory/ has massive delays.

AFAIK, there's a 10 minute cache.  How long of a delay are you seeing?  

If you want something a little quicker, you can pull from my feed here (I plan on making it a little prettier eventually):

http://coinflow.co/livetrades

There's an SSE stream at /livetradeevents/ which aggregates data from assbot and assetbot on IRC.   It's not the 'definitive' source since it isn't the API (I use API data in the charts for BTCTC, not assbot data), but it's still reliable.

Actually there was no delay till now.

Last trade @ /tradeHistory/ at unixtime 1376333707 (~34 minutes ago).

And /api/tradeHistory/LABCOIN for example stucks at 1376332899 (~49 minutes ago).

[burnside]

Is the API broken? /api/tradeHistory/ has massive delays.

AFAIK, there's a 10 minute cache.  How long of a delay are you seeing?  

If you want something a little quicker, you can pull from my feed here (I plan on making it a little prettier eventually):

http://coinflow.co/livetrades

There's an SSE stream at /livetradeevents/ which aggregates data from assbot and assetbot on IRC.   It's not the 'definitive' source since it isn't the API (I use API data in the charts for BTCTC, not assbot data), but it's still reliable.

Actually there was no delay till now.

Last trade @ /tradeHistory/ at unixtime 1376333707 (~34 minutes ago).

And /api/tradeHistory/LABCOIN for example stucks at 1376332899 (~49 minutes ago).

I kind of wonder what layers of caching there might be between you and us.  Any proxies you use?  Browser cache?  That sort of thing?

Cheers.

[dexX7]

I kind of wonder what layers of caching there might be between you and us.  Any proxies you use?  Browser cache?  That sort of thing?

Cheers.

^ some minutes later.


Confirmed by two others. It's not a remote problem and I didn't change anything. No proxy, different browsers.

/api/tradeHistory/ slight delay
/api/tradeHistory/SYMBOL major delay
/api/tradeHistory/ticker slight delay*
/api/tradeHistory/ticker/SYMBOL seems to be okay
assbot in IRC has a major delay
/api/orders/SYMBOL seems to be okay
realtime ticker on btct.co is live

A slight delay is somewhere around 10 minutes, major delay over 30 minutes.

* /ticker had a delay of 1-3 minutes a few days ago, but anything else was live. All timespans are estimates.

[pascal257]

Confirmed by two others. It's not a remote problem and I didn't change anything. No proxy, different browsers.

/api/tradeHistory/ slight delay
/api/tradeHistory/SYMBOL major delay
/api/tradeHistory/ticker slight delay*
/api/tradeHistory/ticker/SYMBOL seems to be okay
assbot in IRC has a major delay
/api/orders/SYMBOL seems to be okay
realtime ticker on btct.co is live

A slight delay is somewhere around 10 minutes, major delay over 30 minutes.

* /ticker had a delay of 1-3 minutes a few days ago, but anything else was live. All timespans are estimates.

I noticed the same things on the website. Orders were fullfilled but not yet listed in the history. That happened first around a week ago.
I can't tell if the API is also affected, but I guess both work on the same datasource.

[bingjiw]

Hi burnside,

I am worried about if all the users' Bitcoins of BTCT are stored safely. 
Are you store all users' Bitcoins in a cold wallet?
Will you use part of users' Bitcoins for other purpose?
Do you implement full reserve or partial reserve of users' Bitcoins?
Could you give out the cold and hot wallet BTC address? So we can check whether all the users' Bitcoins are there and not used for other purpose, and to let us know you are execute a "full reserve" for all users' bitcoins on your site.

Thanks

[penta]

is there an easy way to input BTCT data into google docs?

like if i wanted the ask price from https://btct.co/api/ticker/COGNITIVE
how would i go about doing it?

[dexX7]

is there an easy way to input BTCT data into google docs?

like if i wanted the ask price from https://btct.co/api/ticker/COGNITIVE
how would i go about doing it?

This might be interesting for you:

[Tools] Google Spreadsheets auto-updating portfolio JSON functions.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140427.0

[penta]

is there an easy way to input BTCT data into google docs?

like if i wanted the ask price from https://btct.co/api/ticker/COGNITIVE
how would i go about doing it?

This might be interesting for you:

[Tools] Google Spreadsheets auto-updating portfolio JSON functions.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140427.0

thanks exactly what i was looking for!

[burnside]

I kind of wonder what layers of caching there might be between you and us.  Any proxies you use?  Browser cache?  That sort of thing?

Cheers.

^ some minutes later.

Confirmed by two others. It's not a remote problem and I didn't change anything. No proxy, different browsers.

/api/tradeHistory/ slight delay
/api/tradeHistory/SYMBOL major delay
/api/tradeHistory/ticker slight delay*
/api/tradeHistory/ticker/SYMBOL seems to be okay
assbot in IRC has a major delay
/api/orders/SYMBOL seems to be okay
realtime ticker on btct.co is live

A slight delay is somewhere around 10 minutes, major delay over 30 minutes.

* /ticker had a delay of 1-3 minutes a few days ago, but anything else was live. All timespans are estimates.

I think I figured this out.  The purge of the cache on the trade histories for each trade wasn't always working.  There's caching a lot of places for a few minutes, but not purging was causing some caching to be as long as an hour on certain chunks of data.

Cheers.

[burnside]

Hi burnside,

I am worried about if all the users' Bitcoins of BTCT are stored safely. 
Are you store all users' Bitcoins in a cold wallet?
Will you use part of users' Bitcoins for other purpose?
Do you implement full reserve or partial reserve of users' Bitcoins?
Could you give out the cold and hot wallet BTC address? So we can check whether all the users' Bitcoins are there and not used for other purpose, and to let us know you are execute a "full reserve" for all users' bitcoins on your site.

Thanks

Giving out the cold and hot wallet addresses is pointless because you have no idea what the sum total of everyone's deposits are and I have no way to prove it even if I told you...

I will however state that we do not run a fractional reserve, nor do we use the bitcoins on deposit for anything.  They just sit there.

Cheers.

[kmtan]

can i get the BTC-TC trading app from website not from google?
pls assist

[dexX7]

kmtan: As far as I know the app doesn't work anymore.

--

Looks like everything works fine again. Thanks.

I have no malicious intention, but I did some brainstorming about orderbook manipulation. I noticed that larger buys/sells spread over a few orders take some time to get executed and actually it looks like as if those orders are filled one by one. Let's say I'd stuff the orderbook with a massive amount of smallish orders and a buyer/seller would initiate a buy/sell which would fill all those orders. Would it be possible to remove the later orders before they get filled after that order would have been initiated or is the book locked in that moment? Would the first fill of the bait-orders be propagated through the API before all of them are filled?

[parseval]

kmtan: As far as I know the app doesn't work anymore.

--

Looks like everything works fine again. Thanks.

I have no malicious intention, but I did some brainstorming about orderbook manipulation. I noticed that larger buys/sells spread over a few orders take some time to get executed and actually it looks like as if those covered orders are filled one by one. Let's say I'd stuff the orderbook with a massive amount of smallish orders and a buyer/seller would initiate a buy/sell. Would it be possible to remove the later orders before they get filled after that order has been initiated or is the book locked in that moment? Would the first fill of the bait-orders be propagated through the API before all of them have been filled?

It sounds like that would require some really precision timing to work right, which I doubt is possible.

However, if you want to maximize your ability to buy through orderbook manipulation, then generating a large number of small orders is the way to go.  When you have insufficient balance, BTCTC will cancel your orders up to the point where you have sufficient balance to cover them on any one specific stock.  So, let's say you place an order on two stocks that have an identical price, stock A and stock B...  with stock A you have 20 bid orders of 10 stocks each, and with stock B you have 2 bid orders of 100 stocks each.   You make a trade on stock C which drops your available balance.   On stock A, the first 2 orders are cancelled, leaving you with 18 bid orders of 10 stocks each, and on stock B your first bid order of 100 is cancelled, leaving you with a single bid order of 100 stocks.   With a larger number of smaller orders, the cancellation leaves more order volume in place.

[Ozymandias]

Hey burnside, I requested a pin reset 30 days and ~10-15minutes ago. On my portfolio page there is the following message: "There is a pending PIN RESET request on this account. It will be processed in approximately Expired. If you did not request this reset, your email account is compromised!" but no email or option to actually reset the pin. What should I do?

[Floomi]

I'm messing around with the API and it seems that api/tradeHistory/SECURITYNAME returns the last month of trades. I know ?range=all will give me everything, but is there any way I can get e.g. the last 24h of trades? I can filter them out myself, I was just wondering if there was another way.

[parseval]

I'm messing around with the API and it seems that api/tradeHistory/SECURITYNAME returns the last month of trades. I know ?range=all will give me everything, but is there any way I can get e.g. the last 24h of trades? I can filter them out myself, I was just wondering if there was another way.

The https://btct.co/api/tradeHistory ticker will display all trades from last 48 hours, but it's not limited to an individual security.

[pascal257]

Hey burnside, I requested a pin reset 30 days and ~10-15minutes ago. On my portfolio page there is the following message: "There is a pending PIN RESET request on this account. It will be processed in approximately Expired. If you did not request this reset, your email account is compromised!" but no email or option to actually reset the pin. What should I do?

Same problem here with 2FA reset request