Hi all,
I am working on a simple bitcoin trading bot (verly early stage). For now it will only support Bitstamp, but I'll add other exchanges later.
The goal is to make a trading bot for people that or no trading expert, nor a cryptocurrency expert. I bought already a trading bot, but I think I can do better. I would like some feedback from the community on some questions I have. Or anything that can help me, or make the bot better is welcome.
First of all: Am I wasting my time? If so, please tell me now
Platform: I'm developing the bot using C#. I know many of you would prefer Java, so it would be cross-platform. I know Java, and made already some projects in Java a few years ago, but at work I'm developing in C# now and I've got fond of it, and would prefer not having to switch between languages every few hours (at work C# and at home Java). Also, because of the target audiance, I think the fact it will only run on Windows won't be that big of a deal.
Open source/closed source: All of you would strongly prefer open source. First of all so everybody can check the code for any password stealers or whatever. Secondly because it fits with the idea of Bitcoin. I understand these arguments. But if I'm spending my free time on this project I would really like something in return. I don't have any experience with donations, but I think, certainly for my target audiance, this would be very little. I don't expect to make a living out of it, or even earn a normal hour rate for my work. I don't do it only for the money. But I would be dissappointed if I spend most of my free time on it for several months and then get like 0.5
BTC in return (in total). I have also some other Bitcoin related software ideas, and if I get something in return, this would stronly motivate me to realise these other projects too. So I would prefer to make it closed source and sell it for something like 0.5 to 1
BTC. Unless you can convince me otherwise
Verifiability: If it's open source, this is trivial. But if i keep the source secret, is there any other way I can prove, or convice the community (you) the software is not a scam and safe?
Feature requests: What did you miss in other bots, or what feature should be in every bot? What do you want in the software?
And finally: would you buy it? Would you donate? If not, why not? Please be honest
Any other remarks I didn't ask for are also welcome
Regards,
AscotV