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"On this Day in Ethereum" workflow

You may have read one of my "On this Day" posts about Ethereum, in the daily discussions on popular subreddit /r/ethfinance, or on twitter via @0xZeroTricks. Read on to know how I create these #OnThisDays. 🤖 Historical data: eth-archive.xyz The first part is automated: I use eth-archive.xyz to

High loads, slow charts

Charts may load slowly due to very high traffic. We are working on it. Update: optimisations optimised, things should run smoothly again 👍

Ethereum in 2020, in 30 minutes

Ethereum in 2020, in 30 minutes

This video shows the top news items for Ethereum, appearing and scrolling by as time passes. Visit https://pwr.news/blog/behind-the-charts/ [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjJUUkJmcXhmWVNRYVRYQjY4MWF6d1Q0RTdid3xBQ3Jtc0tuT3NoYjlzWG0ta19xQUw4cUdjNE9iYnBXSWdfYkVNSm9lbjNJRTV2ZWhHTEMteFc2c1FZSnR5N1N2S3g5bnlYdUZvRHJLRV9aVUltN3NXTEV2T0dmTG5aanpjajlHWlBzUlhUaGw5ZGZHUnNPR0Joaw%3D%3D&q=https%3A%2F%2Fpwr.news%2Fblog%2Fbehind-the-charts%2F&event=video_description&v=H-CKewMXCkk] t

Ethereum #OTD's on Twitter via 0xZeroTricks

Ethereum #OTD's on Twitter via 0xZeroTricks

Follow @0xZeroTricks [https://twitter.com/0xZeroTricks] on Twitter to read what happened to Ethereum on this day in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. > On 5 Dec 2019, (1/2) - Etherscan launches https://t.co/G3vqWgOeX8 - Matterlabs introduces zkSync: "missing link to mass adoption of #Ethereum [https://twitter.com/

Behind the Charts

Behind the Charts

If you wonder how eth-archive.xyz collects and selects news, read on.

Losing weight in the library

Losing weight in the library

Your favourite app just lost half of its weight, mainly by better code packaging and dropping dependencies on old libraries. In other words: faster page loads! The numbers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fresh page load: 1,9MB → 0.9MB Asset data updates (every 5 minutes): 19kB → 3,8kB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The full list of

Those are the dates

Those are the dates

Use the recently added calendar to jump to specific days, months or years.

MNPI

They're here, the MNPI: Much Needed Performance Improvements, or, what some Englishmen like to pronounce as "the speeeeeeeeed". by Bubble Punk [https://giphy.com/gifs/cat-cool-cats-cfuL5gqFDreXxkWQ4o] While developing pwr.news, I have noticed the app is susceptible to a plucky portion of induced demand [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_

Taking over reddit

Little experiment: putting realtime* charts on reddit.com/r/ethtrader [https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader], paying for it in ERC-20 based Donuts [https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/a3r1bn/you_can_now_change_the_top_banner_on_the_redesign/] 😎 * Banner is updated ~every hour.

Rocking Responsiveness

Our React [https://reactjs.org/]-based App rewrite continues with a big overhaul of the chart components. Say Yay! to * Fully zoomable charts * Page resize responsiveness * More intuitive buttons * A loading bar, which you hopefully won't see to often. * Pinch to zoom on mobile devices (experimental). [https://pwr.news/ETH/

Frivolous Fixes

* Switch to coinmarketcap's official price feed * Reset page title after closing news items. * Fix opacity of charts upon opening and closing news items * Suppress some irrelevant non-news popping up high in the charts

"On this day", on my mind

"On this day", on my mind

For two months, I've been creating small "On this day in Ethereum" posts: small snippets listing the most relevant events in Ethereum for a specific day in 2016, '17 and '18, like the one for today.

Deploy them small updates already

Sign in with reddit All you redditeers are now one click away from the full charts: Login with reddit [https://pwr.news/auth/reddit] Tip jar addresses Feel free to buy me a beer! Some say it maight improve my coding. Tweaks and fixes * Content from crypto news sites is

On this day in Ethereum...

I started a little experiment, listing Ethereum news that happened "On this day" in previous years. You can find them in the Daily Discussion threads on reddit.com/r/ethtrader [https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader], like this one [https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/bca805/daily_general_discussion_

Tweet storms unrolled

As you may have noticed, tweet storms are now "unrolled" (term coined by Thread reader [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1111839155380801536.html]). [https://pwr.news/item/1111839155380801536]

Improved news selections - part II

To follow up on the last blog post [https://eth-archive.xyz/blog/improved-news-selections], changes were made to increase news relevance per coin. The main change is how relevance is calculated per post: previously this was done by looking at how we got it (ie. post was received by following a

Improved news selections

Improved news selections

Time to improve the selection of news events.

Updated list of preferred sources

Our list of preferred news sources was recently updated. It now looks like this (in no particular order): * coindesk.com * cointelegraph.com * coinspectator.com * reuters.com * cnbc.com * github.com * btcmanager.com * trustnodes.com * theguardian.com * bitcoin.com * bitcoin.org * bitcoinmagazine.com * forbes.com * cryptobible.io * bloomberg.com * csnews.io

A fistful of fixes

* Events [https://pwr.news/item/coindesk.com%2Fledger-crypto-wallet-goes-mobile-with-bluetooth-ready-nano-x] are now linkable [https://pwr.news/item/t3_aggjhc]. [https://pwr.news/item/forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fdarrynpollock%2F2019%2F01%2F18%2Fwyoming-introduces-bill-offering-cryptocurrencies-legal-clarity-to-attract-blockchain-business] Click! * Fix broken emoji's in tweets * Fix lost clicks in some parts of bubble * Fix plain html in settings page * Better

Towards an intuitive UI

Towards an intuitive UI

From speed improvements [https://eth-archive.xyz/blog/towards-a-responsive-ui/] over to some visible changes that came along with the UI rewrite. "Bubbles": see concise info on news items Instead of being immediately redirected to the original article, post or tweet upon clicking items in the chart, you will now be presented

Towards a responsive UI

Towards a responsive UI

pwr.news lacks snappiness. It is slow to load, slow to use and slow to respond. This has been the most common comment about the app over the last months. Up until now! Read on for a little more background and speed improvements.

Coin prices in BTC and ETH

Coin prices in BTC and ETH

photo by Nick Hillier [https://unsplash.com/photos/yD5rv8_WzxA]You scrolled past a big, beautiful, useless image, just to be told that the title says it all: select BTC or ETH as base pairs in the dropdown on the left in the app. Oh, title doesn't say all... VET

pwr.news @ P2PGent

Tonight I will be presenting pwr.news at P2PGent Bitcoin meetup [https://www.meetup.com/P2P-Gent/events/255562638/].

Oktoberfixes

* Show sources for news items * Reduce traffic on page load and on tablets * Send secure transactional mail via ProtonMail * Better admin tools to remove irrelevant news manually * Better historical data (< 2018) from CoinMarketCap * Prevent vertical scrolling * Fix jittery or misplaced crosshairs * Fix vertical placement of price and news items * Fix