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Board Service Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: Whattomine - profitability website with basic api.
by
fredeq
on 12/12/2015, 19:42:59 UTC
Please consider dropping cryptsy exchange rates wherever possible. The spread between cryptsy prices and other exchanges is a bit of a bad joke, because everyone is using whatever altcoin they can to get their coins out. It's a bit like using the mt gox btc rate just before they went pop, and it severely distorts any profitability calculations.

Indeed I have noticed this, didnt connect the dots though with recent cryptsy problems.
The problem is that so many coins are *only* listed on cryptsy from supported exchanges.

Removing cryptsy would remove so many coins from the list.
I will try to add all missing exchanges today and see how it looks.

That's why I said wherever possible. To be honest though, any coins that only trade on cryptsy are of very limited interest for the average profit-seeking miner. If you can't subsequently move the btc that you trade them for.... Sad

Has this already escalated to all btc withdrawals?
I have never had problems with withdrawals there, both BTC or altcoin.

Anyway about WTM solution.
I wanted to expose exchanges filtering, turns out it wont be as easy as I have expected.
Need to redo some part of the coding that handles rates caching to be done on the fly.