It was the Bitcointalk forum that inspired us to create Bitcointalksearch.org - Bitcointalk is an excellent site that should be the default page for anybody dealing in cryptocurrency,
since it is a virtual gold-mine of data. However, our experience and user feedback led us create our site;
Bitcointalk's search is slow, and difficult to get the results you need, because you need to log in first to find anything useful - furthermore, there are rate limiters for their search functionality.
The aim of our project is to create a faster website that yields more results and faster without having to create an account and eliminate the need to log in -
your personal data, therefore, will never be in jeopardy since we are not asking for any of your data and you don't need to provide them to use our site with all of its capabilities.
We created this website with the sole purpose of users being able to search quickly and efficiently in the field of cryptocurrency
so they will have access to the latest and most accurate information and thereby assisting the crypto-community at large.
-- If you like it, thanks for any donations. These would encourage me to continue developing cool apps and widgets. My address is: 1B9WJSZ92Y5VNP2k5HowRjgL3nSunDciba
I will start adding some features once I have confirmed that all major issues have been ironed out in the current version (shouldn't take that long for such a little app).
And of course, friendly donations do help me prioritize feature requests
How about a version capable of a "single" mode where it downloads the data, displays it for a couple of seconds and exits? That would allow ObiWan to be launched via the extra keys of various "multimedia" keyboard layouts. Just add a commandline parameter for that.
Also, I'd prefer to dedicate tilde (~) rather than CapsLock to display the exchange rate.
I've just released a version that addresses this issue. It still updates every 15 seconds but now only downloads the relevant data using the MtGox API (approximately 180 bytes per refresh vs 20k previously, about 100 times less!)
And it still doesn't grab wallet.dat files lying around
Ummm... why exactly does the app have to download and re-create the whole MtGox homepage every 15 seconds? We're talking of a 20 kB file here, that's just under 5 MB worth of unnecessary bandwidth and disk writes per hour or 1.7 GB per month assuming the PC is running 12/7. That's sloppy engineering if I ever saw one and I'm sure MtGox doesn't think much of it either. Surely, you could get away with much less data?
The only good thing I can say is that ObiWan didn't try to grab the honeypot wallet.dat I prepared
Trade with confidence on the world's largest Bitcoin exchange!
Mt.Gox is the world's most established Bitcoin exchange. You can quickly and securely trade bitcoins with other people around the world with your local currency!
Mt.Gox is the best. But you shouldn't take our word for it:
I highly recommend them [Mt.Gox] to anyone who wants to trade Bitcoins.
Roger Ver - CEO, MemoryDealers.com
It isn't often these days that online service providers deliver this level of customer support. A truly commendable occurrence.
Ben
The support team were very helpful, responded quickly and fully resolved the problem. 10/10. Thank you.
David T.
They were wonderful. Despite the fact that I didn't message them back because the issue was resolved, they attempted to contact me multiple times just to make sure that I was okay.
.