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Topic: working next difficulty estimate (blockexplorer.com/q/estimate) (Read 593 times)

legendary
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bitcoinwisdom seems to be headless Smiley  Sad
legendary
Activity: 1708
Merit: 1020
alloscomp would work but it seems off quite a bit currently suggesting +16%

The value at bitcoinwisdom (+0.59%) looks realistic. I contacted them here.

Thank you very much for pointing me toward bitcoinwisdom!  Smiley

legendary
Activity: 2226
Merit: 1052
So there is no difficulty forecast API available? Seems like an opportunity...

https://alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator/json?hashrate=358373688

Code:
{
  "bc_per_block": 25.0,
  "coins_before_retarget": 1.1441951795292777e-05,
  "coins_per_hour": 1.511201180510367e-07,
  "coins_per_hour_after_retarget": 1.2953152975803147e-07,
  "difficulty": 49692386354.89384,
  "dollars_before_retarget": 0.002765519748922264,
  "dollars_per_hour": 3.652573253293557e-05,
  "dollars_per_hour_after_retarget": 3.13077707425162e-05,
  "exchange_rate": 241.7,
  "exchange_rate_source": "preev",
  "hashrate": 358373688.0,
  "next_difficulty": 57974450747.376144,
  "time_per_block": 595552737522.379
}

"next_difficulty": 57974450747.376144

alloscomp.com calculation is not good for 4+ days estimation. This is better...

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

But, you need to scrape HTML for it^^.
legendary
Activity: 1708
Merit: 1020
BTW I notified the maintainers (BitKey) to no avail.

So there is no difficulty forecast API available? Seems like an opportunity...
legendary
Activity: 1708
Merit: 1020
The estimate for the next difficulty at http://blockexplorer.com/q/estimate says:

Quote
ERROR: unknown (Most likely my bitcoind stopped working or this page is too large/complex.)

It has been like that for a while now. Is there an alternative API with an estimate for the next difficulty? Blockchain.info does not seem to offer this.

I have been using the estimate for my website and graphs at http://blockchained.com
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