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Now available in Heroku with current HIVE price versus 7-day average of USD price. DBuzz
Disclaimer: This post is just an opinion and is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice.
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It's been my first time being interested with forex and digital currency.
This made me ask around about it and research about blockchain, cryptocurrency, and its future.
It was once only available to early adopters, but it has now became a part of world for years already. Mainly because of the proliferation of existing/new mobile apps and websites adding digital currency wallet features that is very straightforward to use.
I've seen people actively investing BTC before, but not actual trading. In December of 2018, I saw them scrambling to pull off there investments from their broker.
That didn't spark any interest it me. I have been also using PayPal before to withdraw USD into my local currency, but I didn't even care much if it was high or low—all I need was to use it.
First Power Up
It's already been a month since I became active in Hive and made my first Power Up, I'm thankful to those helped and guided me when I started.
I have been always keen about where my funds go and even scrutinizing the process to check how my funds is doing.
When I converted PHP to ETH, I was already sure that I was converting it a loss with the upfront fee. Using US Dollars as base currency, I compared the total transaction expenses and the USD value of HIVE at transaction time to see my total loss.
Upon succeeding transaction, I noticed that some performed well than others. So, I searched around and found CoinGecko, then found out that coins fluctuate throughout the day.
The n00b just got enlightened! I checked HIVE historical data since its genesis date (or as what CoinGecko label it) and studied its fluctuation.
Note: I've also heard about the news about HIVE being manipulated when it started and finally went OK after it was listed in other trading sites.
With the historical data, I exported it to Google Sheets and added some formula to help better find some understanding of how it behaves.
The n00b just got enlightened! I noticed HIVE is volatile as any resources say about digital currency. It fluctuates at a considerable amount at any day but in recent months it has been declining gradually and even reached at ~9 PHP or ~0.19 USD for several days.
Lucky me, I was able to do transaction in the past two weeks when ETH was much lower than it is today (2020-07-13), which was a bargain.
When July started, it started to slowly rise back to ~11 PHP or 0.22 USD which for could be MY best time to get more HIVE tokens before it rises even more.
Heroku Idea
I thought about creating a site that has less clutter and only tells me how HIVE is performing.
With my existing Google Sheets, I already got the idea or the logic of what the code would be.
I opened my Heroku account (free/limited version) and looked at the devcenter for guides.
Heroku/Getting Started on Heroku with Python
StackAbuse/Deploying a Flask Application to Heroku
Automation using Python (Flask)
Since I already had a template Python repo, I only needed to code for the CoinGecko API support class, site-specific UI-snipper builder and to add site-specific routes.
Running local is easy with flask run, and also the deployment to Heroku is quick. I'm on Windows, so I use command line:
# see previous deployment links
# for full list of requirements
# and complete setup guides
git add .
git commit -m "Added/Fixed/Updated module."
git push heroku master
# launch site.herokuapp.com
heroku open
Or I can also manage the app at my Heroku dashboard. The site is live at Coin Alerts, but with limited hours of use as it's only a free account.
On local testing, CoinGecko API is quite slow due to my internet speed, but when deployed inside Heroku, it's split-second fast.
There are hundreds of free-to-use API available for training your skills or for serious app development, check RapidApi for a list of public APIs.
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