Next step is to rank the participants, start making actual trades based on the top 50%, then ICO a coin promising a share of those profits for $30 million in ETH
Hello, I created this for fun, although more professional tools are available for virtual trading this one is just focused on cryptocurrencies and for the fun aspect.
The cryptocompare's API is used.
I am willing to develop this a bit further, currently it's just a day old project.
Great idea, now I can see how I would suck about making the right coin choices! How about also showing the buying price to make it more apparent for me? :)
Also, something to keep in mind: There are occasional errors about database being locked.
Maybe you tried to include too many features? :)
My friends just wanted to give cryptocurrencies a try, and all these charts and orders are too complicated!
This is where they can create a portfolio in couple of clicks and check it weeks later if they feel like it!
No, my idea is slightly more involved. However I want to use my own data, not other people's, so I spent time setting up a proper DB schema to hold exchange data from various providers. This is not complicated but also not trivial.
Neat project; I'm starting to think that most of these sites, and services that gamify crypto-speculating are training models around user behavior/mimicking trades.
Also, it threw a 500 internal server error after linking Twitter
I didn't want to convert this to a full-fledged trading platform with Stop Losses and orders etc. it requires too much effort. but if you want to test that I can recommend you Etoro's virtual mode.
But thanks for your comment :)
and thats okay. the M1 money supply is a tiny fraction of the currencies people actually respect, so it looks like bitcoin is working at the same standard those are held at.
It can handle a lot of reads, but you'll have problems with multiple concurrent writes (at least with Python). I run read-heavy production websites on SQLite just fine, though.
Not sure if this is a nice idea, a nice execution, or nothing at all. There was a HN post not too long ago on "please tell us what you do first thing". Guess you should (re)read that. Any action requires my twitter or a new account. And you call people without Twitter old school?
Jokes on you!
(So:
1. create a proper landing page
2. Allow us to check on what this is without sharing our data with you; because we won't without knowing what this is in this era.
Haha sorry to offend you, I meant to say like Username/Password is kind of old-school in this era where the importance of digital identities are realised and there are many startups around it, Twitter uses an Authorization protocol (OAuth) which makes them "new school".
I quite dislike Twitter.
You didn't offend, no worries. I understood what you meant. I just included it as a minor, not well understood it seems from the downvotes, joke to take the edge of the comment. My main message was you should update your landing page to explain what it is. That should reduce the bounce rates. Having to sign up without information on what you are signing up for is a big barrier and might (will) scare people away.
