New Service: SMSCoinCheck.com

[sheldonkennedy]

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.

[sheldonkennedy]

Just updated to allow you to pull both mtgox and btce prices.

[sheldonkennedy]

Updated to allow you to pull from coinbase now too!

More currencies and exchanges coming soon!

[sheldonkennedy]

Added Bitstamp to the list now!

[sheldonkennedy]

Added BitcoinAverage to the list now!

[sheldonkennedy]

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.

[browep]

is there a way to get an average?  what happens if i just send "btc"  would it use the bitcoinaverage rate?

[RGBKey]

This is cool, nice project.

[sheldonkennedy]

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.

[sheldonkennedy]

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