CryptoPenny

Inspiration

Bitcoins meteoric rise drove me towards cryptocurrencies, so I decided to make a project involving them.

What it does

Displays cryptocurrency price information in real time, and mines Monero in the background using the client's CPU.

How I built it

I grabbed live price data from a cryptocurrency api, and used the javascript library for coin-hive to set up the Monero Mine.

Challenges I ran into

Figuring out how to make multiple ajax requests in sequence in a synchronous fashion was particularly difficult obstacle I had to get around when building this project.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm pretty proud of the functionality. The design is pretty simple but it does the job well.

What I learned

The main takeaway from this project was definitely a better understanding of ajax as a whole, asynchronous vs synchronous, and how data is passed on the web.

What's next for CryptoPenny

Use Monero obtained from mining to return to client, donate to charity. Mine for other cryptocurrencies.

Built With

• ajax
• bootstrap
• coinhive
• html5
• javascript
• vuejs