CoinChoose - alternative site to show respective profitability of the alt coins

[Eli0t]

would it be possible to add a button to take out the top result so we can see the history of the other coins?

eg with BTG hitting 53000% none of the other coins can be seen until its off the graph (and the coin toggle buttons no longer remove the coin)

Partially got this done - now just to save what was previously clicked (on the refresh).

working nicely now, thanks

[sal002]

Hello,  Great job with CoinChoose. I find it extremely useful.

Can I make one suggestion/request?  When doing a history query, for the coins that are on multiple markets it's not always super simple to determine if the record is using the LTC or the BTC market.  Would it be difficult for you to add an exchange type field in the record (i.e., a field with either BTC or LTC)?

Thanks,

Sure - do you mean the json.php request?

Yes, the json.php request. Thank You !!!

As an example of why this would be beneficial....here are two histories for BQC during the last hour:

{"currency":"BQC","profitability":"234.08428870675","time":"2013-08-13 13:10:02","price":"0.000025003333333333"}

{"currency":"BQC","profitability":"97.422862240985","time":"2013-08-13 13:10:02","price":"0.000914"},

both have the same time, and one is for the BTC market and the other for the LTC market.  Obviously one could tell from the price which is which.  But sometimes there are no trades on one of the markets during a period and then you only have one BQC record for that period.  So instead of writing my own code to figure out which market the trade occurred on, it would be great if that field was already in the record.

Thanks again for your great site!

Kinda embarrassed I never put this change to jsondata.php when I added the LTC base .  It is added now!

[oktar]

I have a question.
Why not all coins from http://www.coinchoose.com/index.php are available on http://www.coinchoose.com/litecoin.php and vice versa?
For example the best coin in litecoin comparision chart is EzCoin which is not even listed on main page.

[sal002]

I have a question.
Why not all coins from http://www.coinchoose.com/index.php are available on http://www.coinchoose.com/litecoin.php and vice versa?
For example the best coin in litecoin comparision chart is EzCoin which is not even listed on main page.

Usually because those coins on the Litecoin charts are one for which there is a direct exchange into LTC.  If they are not on the BTC chart that means there is no direct exchange into BTC.  Cryptsy's secondary market is only to LTC and not BTC, for example.

[Zalfrin]

Sorting doesn't seem to work quite right. Network hashrate for example, units (MHps,Ghps,etc) get ignored. Also, only one digit at a time is getting checked. So all the numbers starting with 1 show up, then 2 etc.

Very useful info nonetheless. Thanks!

[sal002]

Sorting doesn't seem to work quite right. Network hashrate for example, units (MHps,Ghps,etc) get ignored. Also, only one digit at a time is getting checked. So all the numbers starting with 1 show up, then 2 etc.

Very useful info nonetheless. Thanks!

Yeah - Network hash is an issue - if I standardize it all to one (MHps, for example), it works again.  Not sure how else to address it using the Google Visualization Table.

[Nemo1024]

Sal002, LTC is gone again. What about that presentation of stale data, so that coins don't disappear of the charts and API?

[xorxor]

infinitecoin has 30s blocks, and yet it's profitability is adjusted up. That is a big bug i believe.

[sal002]

infinitecoin has 30s blocks, and yet it's profitability is adjusted up. That is a big bug i believe.

Not a bug - wrong data (30 minute blocks not 30 second).     Fixed.

[sal002]

Sal002, LTC is gone again. What about that presentation of stale data, so that coins don't disappear of the charts and API?

Still working on it - I have to be careful as I don't want to give the impression for any automated users that the stale data is accurate as it is most certainly wrong.

[Nemo1024]

Sal002, LTC is gone again. What about that presentation of stale data, so that coins don't disappear of the charts and API?

Still working on it - I have to be careful as I don't want to give the impression for any automated users that the stale data is accurate as it is most certainly wrong.

I understand. That would be a breaking change, that needs good documentation.

I coded around the issue for the time being in my Crypto Miners in Tray, using the old info if a coin suddenly disappears from your data set. However, the problem remains if you just start or re-start the program, in which case the profitability of a missing coin will be reported as 0.

[atomicchaos]

I need to review this thread more, but what is the actual reason for LTC disappearing? I don't want to jump to conclusions on non-technical reasons this would happen.

[sal002]

I need to review this thread more, but what is the actual reason for LTC disappearing? I don't want to jump to conclusions on non-technical reasons this would happen.

It was up when I looked so it must have been temporary. Was it not on the BTC page or the LTC page (or both)?  If so, what did it look like on the LTC page?

The actual reason (as it is for 99% of all coins disappearing from my site) was the public block explorer for LTC ceased responding to inquiries (could have been down or under attack).  When I cease getting a response from a public block explorer, to avoid stale / wrong data, I automatically (by design) remove the coin from the listing.  Once the block explorer goes back up - it appears again.  

I am working on, in a way that doesn't give the impression the data is accurate and, in fact, makes it quite evident that the actual row should be ignored, the coin stays up.  Sort of a catch 22, though, as now people are yelling about a coin being removed, but even if I make it evident, people will be yelling that my data is wrong.

Again, as I have said over and over - I have removed TWO coins manually since CoinChoose has launched and BOTH at the request of the coin's developers (one to keep it out of attention and the other because it was attacked and couldn't be saved).  I have suspended coins that there is a verifiable attack / block chain split until those get resolved so people are not wasting time mining.  For no other reason have I removed a coin.  It would be silly of me to remove LTC as I dedicate a whole second page to LTC.

[atomicchaos]

Thanks for the response, but as of just now, I still don't see it, nor has it been there for the past 4-5 hours.

[sal002]

Thanks for the response, but as of just now, I still don't see it, nor has it been there for the past 4-5 hours.

I just saw it 4 hours ago.  Can you post a screenshot?

[atomicchaos]

Thanks for the response, but as of just now, I still don't see it, nor has it been there for the past 4-5 hours.

I just saw it 4 hours ago.  Can you post a screenshot?

I'm not sure how posting a screenshot will help, it's not on the site, nor working for the API.

[sal002]

Nevermind - I see it is down.  Looks like the block explorer I am using (http://explorer.litecoin.net/) is down which means I will work on bringing up a daemon for this one as well.  It will be about 8 hours (depending how long it takes to download the full blockchain).

[albon]

any chance you can get bottlecaps back on (CAP)

[atomicchaos]

Nevermind - I see it is down.  Looks like the block explorer I am using (http://explorer.litecoin.net/) is down which means I will work on bringing up a daemon for this one as well.  It will be about 8 hours (depending how long it takes to download the full blockchain).

I just saw it come back. Thank you!

[sal002]

any chance you can get bottlecaps back on (CAP)

As soon as its block explorer is fixed - must be under attack!