CoinGecko is now 10 years old

awesomianist (65)in #blog • 9 months ago

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@coingecko is now 10 years old.

And is now been around more than half of this entire early lifespan of the crypto industry.
You can read more about what my bosses think about being around for 10 years at https://www.coingecko.com/learn/10th-anniversary

So I will say abit about what i think, personally. Since this is my blog.

I've been with @coingecko for a little over 5 years by now, and so I’m officially been with the company for half its early lifespan.

Many things have changed since i started working with them, I will not delve into the changes, since its probably too much to list down and some items might be too personal to post on the blockchain.

So I will talk about what few important things that are still the same;

We’re still lean

The company is about ~70 people strong now if you exclude freelancers and contractors.

For a company at this size, I do think we're punching above our weight in terms of employee per unit productivity. My bosses started out the company with the Lean mindset in everything they do and 10 years on, i still see that in the works. I'm not sure if this will continue on but the fact that it did is prolly something that gives me a lil joy. Feels good to know that me and my team we're capable of more that what the average Malaysian/Singaporean employee does in their workplace, and capable of handling that stress and manage burnouts relatively healthily (unless I start doing leveraged trading again while working which will tend to drive me into a mental breakdown if a position goes sour).

We’re still crazy about crypto

CoinGecko started out to solve a personal problem, and most of the early folks joined in because they were willing to risk their career into something as dangerous as "crypto". I know more than a few OG colleague in the team who said they didn't expect to keep a job for more than a year when they first joined.

It is true that as a crypto company grows, the newer joiners tend to become more apathetic towards crypto and (not wrongly) think of their work as a job for a paycheck - just look at what happened to Coinbase a couple years back.

So im happy to see that most of my junior colleagues are still talking "alphas" and being "degen". its a breath of fresh air.

We’re still always on the lookout for new stuff

Something will always come up in this space and change the whole game. Its normal for us to juggle between deciding if we're gonna go all in on this new thing or let it past and bet on the fact that it will be a fad, its literally what my job is on a day to day basis.

As crypto becomes more complex with all the new layers being added into the space and novel applications of the blockchain and DeFi into the real world, I admit that this becomes a harder and harder thing to do.

There's just no way for 1 person to be able to keep up to date on every single thing that happens in this space anymore. Not at this point.

But i'll make sure me, my team and company will keep trying.

Its sobering to know that crypto as an industry is getting not-young-anymore-er marked by the fact that my workplace is now a decade old. Coincidentally, Its also been 10 years now since i first heard about crypto - which might have been something I blogged about before here on Hive (or when it was still Steem before the sellout/fork).

tldr - me not young anymore, company 1 decade old.

#coingecko #crypto #decade

9 months ago in #blog by awesomianist (65)

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steevc (79) 9 months ago (edited)

I use the site all the time to check on the prices. It must be an exciting place to work with so much going on.

Who controls the @coingecko account? It would be good to see it posting again.

I used to be able to use the API to generate charts like on this post, but now it says I've exceeded the free limit. I was only running my script once each week to get price history on a few coins and it used to work. I can't really justify paying for it for my limited usage. Any ideas?

!BEER

Update: I'm just trying my script again and I am able to fetch some data. The FAQ says the limit is 30 calls/minute, but I was getting the error on a single call to get_coin_market_chart_by_id. I will run some more tests to see what the limits are for me.

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awesomianist (65) 9 months ago

Currently the account keys are kept together with our founders themselves (im not privy to their key storage policy as im sure they have one)

I'm not sure right now if we have plans to be active on Hive again, maybe yes maybe no as the decision is no longer to be made by myself.

On the subject of CoinGecko API, at this point from what I know is that the free calls are still there though the challenges you faced were likely the result of our servers very tight anti-spam controls, not saying that you were the one spamming but you know how its like when some websites gets to strict with their cloudfare and we all have to be clicking on images even though we're perfectly human.

If you're using it once per week i'd say it should be no problem at all and yes you're right no point paying (paying gets you hundreds of calls per minute at least so its totally not suitable for your usecase).

it is likely the free api endpoint servers are being capped in throughout and you just happened to be calling when there is an instance of bot spams (we get too much of those now) where the endpoint controls becomes super tight. maybe try to set to call 1 minute after each failed calls to see if your script can succeed in the next try?

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steevc (79) 9 months ago

I hope that will Hive will become somewhere that crypto fans will gather and companies will use it. It has to be better than relying on corporate platforms that ban things on a whim.

It looks like I can use the API to some extent. I quite like being able to generate my own charts and they may be useful to others.

Thanks

!PIZZA

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