texchange_rate: change default provider to CoinGecko - electrum - Electrum Bitcoin wallet
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DIR commit c23e94984836f0df4ebef8ec7688b71975de00b5
DIR parent 5cbf54d23a5e98f0b81b39de707433699fb0264f
HTML Author: SomberNight <somber.night@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:55:57 +0100
exchange_rate: change default provider to CoinGecko
closes #5188
Diffstat:
M electrum/exchange_rate.py | 15 ++++-----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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DIR diff --git a/electrum/exchange_rate.py b/electrum/exchange_rate.py
t@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from .simple_config import SimpleConfig
DEFAULT_ENABLED = False
DEFAULT_CURRENCY = "EUR"
-DEFAULT_EXCHANGE = "BitcoinAverage" # default exchange should ideally provide historical rates
+DEFAULT_EXCHANGE = "CoinGecko" # default exchange should ideally provide historical rates
# See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
t@@ -142,23 +142,16 @@ class ExchangeBase(PrintError):
rates = await self.get_rates('')
return sorted([str(a) for (a, b) in rates.items() if b is not None and len(a)==3])
+
class BitcoinAverage(ExchangeBase):
+ # note: historical rates used to be freely available
+ # but this is no longer the case. see #5188
async def get_rates(self, ccy):
json = await self.get_json('apiv2.bitcoinaverage.com', '/indices/global/ticker/short')
return dict([(r.replace("BTC", ""), Decimal(json[r]['last']))
for r in json if r != 'timestamp'])
- def history_ccys(self):
- # BitcoinAverage seems to have historical data for all ccys it supports
- return CURRENCIES[self.name()]
-
- async def request_history(self, ccy):
- history = await self.get_csv('apiv2.bitcoinaverage.com',
- "/indices/global/history/BTC%s?period=alltime&format=csv" % ccy)
- return dict([(h['DateTime'][:10], h['Average'])
- for h in history])
-
class Bitcointoyou(ExchangeBase):