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Board Service Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: CoinMarketCap.com - Market Cap Rankings of All Cryptocurrencies!
by
dtothemt
on 25/01/2014, 21:58:56 UTC
Hello!

I've got a question about how you are pulling data. I am writing an IRC bot plugin that I want to pull data.

So far so good but then I encountered an issue with coins like Lottocoin and Volt: the random block rewards. I know I would either have to scan the blockchain myself on these, or if possible pull the data from a block explorer. It would be easy to calculate how many coins are in existence with a coin that has usual block rewards with block halvings, but this is troublesome.

I've tried to see if block explorers like Lottocoin's has an API I can query, but I haven't had any luck. Can you please tell me how you are obtaining your "Total Supply" values on coins with random block rewards?