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Feature Request: Track balance/price by public address

Open createthis opened this issue 6 years ago • 6 comments

Some of us don't like to keep our coins on exchanges as they have a history of being hacked.

It would be cool to be able to track the balance/price of paper wallets and application wallets by address.

Many coins have block websites with public APIs that we can use to fetch the balance by address. For example, Ethereum has: https://etherscan.io/apis#accounts

And bitcoin has: https://blockchain.info/api/blockchain_api

This would be a convenient feature for miners and security conscious HODLers alike.

createthis avatar Jan 04 '18 16:01 createthis

I think you can achieve that by simply hardcoding your off exchange holdings in the settings: https://github.com/benmarten/CryptoETF/blob/master/settings.example.json#L48 or you can also build an integration for these other services ;)

benmarten avatar Jan 04 '18 18:01 benmarten

You can hard code it, but the address integration would be nice for miners. Our holdings change daily.

createthis avatar Jan 04 '18 18:01 createthis

Also, it occurs to me that address support would open the door to another feature that I've been thinking about for a while.

Forks are pretty common these days in cryptocurrencies. It would be cool to input a BTC, ETH, or ZCash address and have the program search for all holdings that may have forked from that over time. Sort of a crypto finder/dependency graph feature. Find hidden money! Maximize your holdings!

createthis avatar Jan 04 '18 18:01 createthis

@createthis Something like #36 ? You can add an array of addresses and let hem be checked via the 2 APIs you listed.

barryvdh avatar Jan 13 '18 22:01 barryvdh

@createthis BTCDIV let's you scan your bitcoin address for these forks. Also don't forget to check your airdropped tokens on Ethplorer!

gosuto-inzasheru avatar Jan 18 '18 04:01 gosuto-inzasheru

And yes I think #36 is exactly what is requested here @barryvdh, thanks! I guess a next step that could be taken is to also scan the Ethereum addresses for tokens...

gosuto-inzasheru avatar Jan 18 '18 04:01 gosuto-inzasheru