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Re: Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets

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Looks great, would love to see some exchanges supported that people outside the US can actually use (GDAX is not accessible to most people in EU).

Why is GDAX inaccessible to most people in the EU?

Unsure, I just know it doesn't work for me and most of my EU based friends: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/969743/33161855-cf...

EDIT: Apparently I am allowed to trade BTC/EUR. Yay! If only it was a liquid.

Re: Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets

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I don't know what the OP meant by responsive but it is definitely more responsive as far as frequency of updates.

Are you looking at the same market? The default market on OhMyCoin is Gemini which has fewer updates than GDAX. GDAX does the fade-in and fade-out animation on the order book, which helps give it dynamism. It may have a bit more render frequency, as OhMyCoin orderbook is rendered every 200ms. I considered that fast enough, given it's nature nobody is going to read and process the data faster than that, and it consume…

I agree with you. Though if I want to show the flashy-wannabe-HFT exchanges to my friends I might still go for their dashboard.

Re: Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets

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post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is GDAX inaccessible to most people in the EU?

Unsure, I just know it doesn't work for me and most of my EU based friends: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/969743/33161855-cf... EDIT: Apparently I am allowed to trade BTC/EUR. Yay! If only it was a liquid.

BTC-EUR on GDAX is quite liquid, almost always I look spread is 0.01€ and there are trades every few seconds

Re: Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets

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post #57

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I can store the tick data, although I'm not storing it at the moment (I disabled it for the launch and will test the load that enabling it represents). I use Cassandra with just 1 node for the moment. It's kind of that, although the client doesn't talk to the exchange directly, it only talks to the backend. The backend consumes events from the different exchanges, transforms it to a common format, stores it and serve…

For this kind of data, I'd actually use a Time Series Database like ElasticSearch, InfluxDB, or Riak. They're built for data like this. We're using ElasticSearch at work and it's been wonderful.

Cassandra also functions as a time-series database, and does quite well with tick data such as this. Many financial institutions rely on it.

Re: Show HN: OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets

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What JavaScript library you use for the charts?

None, just React and SVG elements.

Have you tried react-stockcharts? Awesome charting library...pure SVG, or hybrid mode with html canvas, open source, developer is very responsive.
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