new blog post. how I made 2,340% profit with bitcoin and trivial code:

How I Made ~2,340% Profit With Bitcoin And Trivial Code

gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 11 Apr '13, 2pm

new blog post. how I made 2,340% profit with bitcoin and trivial code:

The other day, right before the latest Bitcoin price spike crashed, I sold half a Bitcoin for about $117.89. I had bought this Bitcoin for about $10, so I think my math is very approximately correct when I call that a 2,340% profit. A 100% profit on a $5 investment would have been another $5. In other words, I sold at the height of a bubble. Lucky me. But the answer is not just luck. The answer is shell-scripting the web. Two years ago, I wrote a simple Ruby script to screen-scrape Bitcoin prices (in USD) and create a simple web page with the latest price . Then I plugged that into an hourly cron job and wired up the DNS for btcusd.gilesb.com . I didn't do it because I actually cared very much about Bitcoin prices. What I did care very much about was not looking at the hideous price-tracking web sites which existed at the time. I was too used to plugging my currency conver...

Full article: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-i-made-2340-...

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