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howiem

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About howiem

https://github.com/howardmann

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    Comment #16304901

    I’ve now added the ability to comment and am fine tuning replies :) thanks again for all the great feedback.

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    Comment #16263454

    I've just added the ability to save interesting posts. You will see a button that says "favorite" under each post. You will be prompted to sign up and then it will save it your acc…

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    Comment #16227676

    Thank you everyone for the great feedback. Please feel free to share any helpful links that explain blockchain, cryptocurrencies, ICOs etc. and I will post on the 101 resource page…

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    Comment #16226633

    I may, in the meantime you can access it via my backend service. It's a mongodb store https://cryptoserver.now.sh/threads

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    Comment #16221428

    Once again I’d appreciate any great 101 resources people have found explaining blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other related topics. I will look at adding more content to the 101 …

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    Comment #16221420

    Thanks for your comments. This is very much an early prototype and I appreciate your comments. I will be looking to add the ability to comment next. Regarding adding text at the bo…

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    Comment #16221399

    Sorry if I confused anyone, didn’t mean to start a flame war. It was just the first domain I found that was available, I didn’t think too much about it

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    Comment #16218425

    Thanks. I've simply used the coinmarketcap API to get the currency feeds, super straight forward. It fetches from the client side. Anyone can use it here https://coinmarketcap.com/…

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    Comment #16218415

    For scraping I've used the webhose api (I am still on the free account hence when u click on the link it has a 5 second redirect). I've found it is an excellent resource and easy t…

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    Comment #16218397

    Cool. Ill add that to the list. Please provide suggestions of other topics and I will add it in :D

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    Comment #16218389

    Great idea, I actually had this before. I was feeding the articles into google's natural language processing API to get a sentiment index from -1 to 1 (-1 negative, 0 neutral +1 po…

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    Comment #16218357

    Thanks. I'm working on this now. I've built the authentication system and user models and will be working on comments next

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    Comment #16218350

    Great idea, I'll put that on the list

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    Comment #16218347

    Sorry for the confusion I've gotten used to referring to cryptocurrency as crypto as shorthand

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    Comment #16212967

    Awesome thanks for the feedback. I’ll feed some more content for the 101s :) id appreciate any interesting posts or links anyone recommends explaining crypto currency and block cha…

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    Comment #16212724

    I built this using the webhose api to scrape and filter for cryptocurrency related topics from reputable news sources and trending forum posts. I'm a terrible designer so I eyeball…

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