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Describe how the script works.
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A script that converts USD prices to BTC dynamically, based on a weighted average of the recent Mt.Gox trades. The weighted average is updated every 5 minutes.
A script that converts USD prices to BTC dynamically, based on a weighted average of the recent Mt.Gox trades. The weighted average is updated every 5 minutes.


The way this works is the script, hosted on the sanescreen.org server, references a separate javascript file which holds the the exchange rate hard-coded as a variable assignment.  The separate javascript file is what gets updated with the new rate.
The way this works is the script, hosted on the sanescreen.org server, references a separate javascript file which holds the the exchange rate hard-coded as a variable assignment.  The separate javascript file is what gets updated frequently to reflect the current rate.


==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 06:37, 23 April 2011

A script that converts USD prices to BTC dynamically, based on a weighted average of the recent Mt.Gox trades. The weighted average is updated every 5 minutes.

The way this works is the script, hosted on the sanescreen.org server, references a separate javascript file which holds the the exchange rate hard-coded as a variable assignment. The separate javascript file is what gets updated frequently to reflect the current rate.

See Also

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