Create a DCA calculator app to track your portfolio
We’ll start by creating a structure that holds the data for a single trade.
A trade is made up of an amount, a price, and a value. All of the trades are stored in the TradesModel, which will make all of the calculations necessary for DCA (dollar-cost averaging).
The didSet property observer is used so that the trades array is given a new empty trade when the user wants to increase the number of trades displayed.
This keeps the size of the array in line with the number we expect to see on the screen, eliminating the possibility of index…
Marketing drove the growth of the company, but profits were insufficient to repay spiralling debts
In 2014, the PowaTag mobile payments app launched with 240 retailers on board.
The product centred around an app that allowed you to buy any product you come across in the real world. If it was a billboard, you would scan a QR code. On the radio, the app could detect audio frequencies to tell the app what the product is. The app even made use of Bluetooth beacons, such as Apple’s iBeacons, to find products within range of your device.
Paying for the product was simple, as your payment details were stored in the PowaTag cloud and could be…
The hypothetical situation in which everyone in the world HODLs is unrealistic, and will never reflect the use of real blockchains
It takes just a cursory glance at Wikipedia to discover that HODL “originated in a December 2013 post on the Bitcoin Forum message board” where a presumably drunk user wrote “I AM HODLING.” Wikipedia provides a 2017 quote from Quartz that suggested it described a determination to stay invested in bitcoin and “not to capitulate in the face of plunging prices.”
When someone says they’re HODLing, they mean that they are waiting a long time to get a bigger payout.
But they’re also doing it to save the price from crashing.
The only thing stopping any cryptocurrency from being worthless…
It could also be the signal that takes us all the way to $100,000 (and perhaps beyond)
Moving average convergence divergence (MACD) is an indicator that shows the direction of a trend.
The MACD line is calculated by subtracting the 26-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) from the 12-period EMA. These exponentially weighted moving averages are affected more by recent price changes than simple moving averages (SMAs), which apply an equal weight everything.
Depending on what timeframe you’re looking at, the duration of the period that each EMA takes into account could be minutes, hours, or days. Comparing two of them effectively compares the recent past with the less recent past, showing the relative direction and momentum between…
End up with more coins than you started with, even if you don’t spend any of your cash or sell any of your coins
Let’s start by giving a basic definition of the terms involved.
What is short selling?
Shorting is pretty easy to explain.
If I sell a bitcoin, I have ‘cash’ in the form of a stablecoin like USDT or BUSD. When the price drops, the amount of bitcoin I can afford with that cash goes up.
Bitcoin is cheaper, so I can get more for my money.
But what if I told you I didn’t own any bitcoin when I sold one?
What is cross margin?
Cross margin is a trickier concept to define.
I’ll talk exclusively about Binance, just because that’s the exchange I’m familiar with, but a…
According to the release notes, this is what’s coming up for Apple’s UI framework
Here’s what we know so far, according to the release notes.
Markdown can be used to create Text, whether that be through LocalizedStringKey or a String literal. You can create a Text View with an AttributedString, which I admit is a structure I don’t use very often. There are performance improvements to animations, which makes one of the best frameworks in the world for UI and animation work even faster. …
Scalability issues have added a roadblock to the adoption of the cross-chain platform
UPDATE: the problem has now been fixed, although the developers aren’t sure if the problem will surface again.
Polkadot is a Nominated Proof-of-Stake (NPoS) network that has been up and running since May 26th 2020. Users vote to determine which validators do a good job, and in return they get rewarded with more DOT coins. Rival project Cardano (ADA) has a similar system, except that there is no minimum staking amount and the risk is only that a user fails to get rewarded. …
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Keep your coins firmly within your control by doing away with custodial exchanges entirely
Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and the last 6 months have been the most profitable of its entire history.
The reason for this recent success is the launch of two blockchains. The first is Binance Chain, a closed source blockchain based on Tendermint that centres around trading BEP2 tokens. These tokens are pegged, meaning they will follow the value of a coin exactly. This concept may be unfamiliar to you but have probably heard of USDT, a pegged token on many blockchains which follows the value of the US dollar.
On Binance Chain there is a pegged token…
The cryptocurrency coin may be a meme. So let’s have fun with it using CoinGecko API
The cryptocurrency Dogecoin has had an incredible run this week, fuelled only by hype and celebrity endorsements. Unlike GameStop, where arguments of the company being undervalued can be made, Dogecoin really doesn’t offer any new utility. Maybe that doesn’t matter, but we’re probably going to find out soon enough. Whether you’ve bought into the hype or not, you might be interested to know how to use an API to check the price.
Here’s how the two screens of the app will look:
Rob Sturgeon
An iOS developer who writes about gadgets, startups and cryptocurrencies. Swift programming tutorials and SwiftUI documentation are here too. robsturgeon.com
