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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
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Subject: [bitcoin-dev]  Currency/exchange rate information API
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 08:27:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201703040827.33798.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)

Investigating what it would take to add fiat currency information to Bitcoin 
Knots, I noticed Electrum currently has many implementations, one for each 
exchange rate provider, due to lack of a common format for such data.

Therefore, I put together an initial draft of a BIP that could standardise 
this so wallets (or other software) and exchange rate providers can simply 
interoperate without a lot of overhead reimplementing the same thing many 
ways.

One thing I am unsure about, is that currently this draft requires using XBT 
(as BTC) for Bitcoin amounts. It would seem nicer to use satoshis, but those 
don't really have a pseudo-ISO currency code to fit in nicely...

Current draft here:
    https://github.com/luke-jr/bips/blob/bip-xchgrate/bip-xchgrate.mediawiki

Thoughts? Anything critical missing? Ways to make the interface better?

Luke


             reply	other threads:[~2017-03-04  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-04  8:27 Luke Dashjr [this message]
2017-03-04 15:18 ` [bitcoin-dev] Currency/exchange rate information API アルム カールヨハン
2017-03-06  5:37 ` Tim Ruffing
2017-03-06  7:09   ` Luke Dashjr
2017-03-06  8:14     ` Jonas Schnelli
2017-03-06 21:54     ` Tim Ruffing
2017-03-06 22:02       ` Tim Ruffing
2017-03-06 22:21         ` Luke Dashjr
2017-03-06 22:14       ` Luke Dashjr
2017-03-06 22:30         ` Tim Ruffing
2017-03-06 22:38           ` Tim Ruffing
2017-03-06 23:14   ` Andreas Schildbach
2017-03-07  9:29 ` Marcel Jamin
2017-03-13 18:10   ` Andrew LeCody

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