Bitcoin Peak Helper Website

[ripper234]

Hi all!

This morning, just in time I might add, I registered & coded bitcoinpeak.org.

The site will always show the peak in bitcoin prices.
Sad fact is that right now there's a rather huge issue ... the price is based on blockchain.info API, which is only updated once a day from what I could tell. So the site still shows $31.9099 Issue was fixed, price is updated once per minute.

But ... tomorrow it will show a higher figure

I guess I should just use Mt. Gox API directly and get my data from there. We'll see when I get around to making that change.

In the meantime ... enjoy ... and congrats to all of us bit speculators for breaking the previous high.
To the moon and beyond.

[knight22]

Cool
You should add the date of the last peak

[ripper234]

Cool
You should add the date of the last peak

Yeah.

Issue reports (and dare I say pull requests?) are welcome.

[notme]

Looks like you are using ruby.  Here you go:

https://github.com/sferik/mtgox

Code:

puts MtGox.ticker.high

gives you the high for the past 24 hours.  Check it twice a day and you're golden.

[ripper234]

Looks like you are using ruby.  Here you go:

Wrong, I'm using scala. What confused you perhaps is heroku? Heroku supports many many platforms including scala, ruby, php, nodejs.

https://github.com/sferik/mtgox

Code:

puts MtGox.ticker.high

gives you the high for the past 24 hours.  Check it twice a day and you're golden.

I find it easier writing a completely stateless websites that reads the entire trade history from BitcoinCharts. In fact, I only need to read the history since the last known peak - I coded in the date of 1 week ago.

With your idea, if my service is down for 24 hours, I could get the wrong results.

[Odalv]

Add date and time please. (amount)

[ripper234]

Add date and time please. (amount)

Send in a pull request

I'm super busy ... I know it's a small change, but I'm sleeping less than 5 hours a night for the last week+, so no time right now.

There is an issue I opened about this, and I might get to it sometime soon, but right now I can't devote more time to this.

[notme]

My bad.  I just took a quick glance at the github page and saw a similar directory layout to a rails project.  Looking more closely I clearly jumped the gun.  I can understand your desire for statelessness, but adding the mtgox api check a few time per day in addition would keep the data fresher than updating once a day, but you could keep your stateless updates just in case.  I guess it wouldn't make a difference most of the time, but when btc is in rally mode your page is pretty useless.

[ripper234]

My bad.  I just took a quick glance at the github page and saw a similar directory layout to a rails project.  Looking more closely I clearly jumped the gun.  I can understand your desire for statelessness, but adding the mtgox api check a few time per day in addition would keep the data fresher than updating once a day, but you could keep your stateless updates just in case.  I guess it wouldn't make a difference most of the time, but when btc is in rally mode your page is pretty useless.

The page updates once per minute ... it's very fresh.
I fixed it yesterday morning ... until then it only updated once per day and even missed a few rallies, and was useless. Now I find it quite useful.

[notme]

My bad.  I just took a quick glance at the github page and saw a similar directory layout to a rails project.  Looking more closely I clearly jumped the gun.  I can understand your desire for statelessness, but adding the mtgox api check a few time per day in addition would keep the data fresher than updating once a day, but you could keep your stateless updates just in case.  I guess it wouldn't make a difference most of the time, but when btc is in rally mode your page is pretty useless.

The page updates once per minute ... it's very fresh.
I fixed it yesterday morning ... until then it only updated once per day and even missed a few rallies, and was useless. Now I find it quite useful.

Ah, okay.  I missed the part where you said you updated it.  I was still going off the OP where it said it updated once per day.  Sorry for the thread clutter.

[ripper234]

No problem, I updated to OP.