🇿🇦 I made a site for my fellow South Africans to check the sats/Rand rate \ stacker news ~bitcoin

🇿🇦 I made a site for my fellow South Africans to check the sats/Rand rate

368 sats \ 9 comments \ @CheezeGrater 20 Oct 2022 bitcoin

I love the sats/$ value displayed on SN, of all the ways to display the bitcoin price I find it the most useful and, for myself at least, it helps me think in bitcoin instead of fiat.

So I decided to make a page where South Africans can see the same in our local fiat currency, the South African Rand.

http://randsats.site (currently redirects to an Amazon S3 site)

I made this because I personally have use for it, so I hope it will be useful to others as well.

All feedback welcome!

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20 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 20 Oct 2022

I wonder if we should add the rand to the currencies we support.

@ekzyis did coinbase's API support the Rand?

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @CheezeGrater OP 20 Oct 2022

Would be much appreciated!

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 21 Oct 2022

Doesn't seem like it. It's not listed in https://api.exchange.coinbase.com/products.

Got that link from https://docs.cloud.coinbase.com/exchange/reference/exchangerestapi_getproducts-1.

But I'll check again later.

100 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 21 Oct 2022

Okay, I checked again and I noticed the ticker for the South African Rand is ZAR.

But this one also does not show up in their products.

Kraken also does not support it: https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/201893658-Currency-pairs-available-for-trading-on-Kraken

However, Binance supports it: https://api.binance.com/api/v3/ticker/price?symbol=BTCZAR

I can create a PR later

337 sats \ 4 replies \ @CheezeGrater OP 21 Oct 2022

Odd that Coinbase's API doesn't support ZAR, the first google result for "sats to zar" is Coinbase's converter: https://www.coinbase.com/converter/sats/zar

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 21 Oct 2022

Yes, they have a converter but their API only exposes the ones they support trading for.

I tried to find out where their converter gets the data but it was too messy so I kept looking elsewhere.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 21 Oct 2022

Oh, turns out the Coinbase API does indeed support it:

See https://api.coinbase.com/v2/currencies (search for ZAR)

So we can just use https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/BTC-ZAR/spot as for the other currencies!