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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 6 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +9 
 Coin gecko API database was just compromised 

Just got a phishing email appearing like ledger to my coingeko simple login

What's cool too is I can just disable this alias now and my whole email mailbox isn't fucked :)
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bitcoinlimit | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You gave your email to access coingecko api? 🤣
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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I use for business I need more API calls than the average pleb
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MF_HODL | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Why do you need coingecko specifically?  Do you need data on shitcoins?

If just for Bitcoin data, I would highly recommend hosting your own instance of @mempool and using that API

I think they don’t have USD pricing, but there are plenty of other free APIs to get daily price data, and make the conversion from there
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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I usd price every second across 4 environments
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MF_HODL | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Oh lol.  Yeah I have never needed live price feed so that didn’t occur to me.

I think Coinmetrics and Coindesk (both shitcoin companies) have real time price indexes… but probably those are expensive integrations
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bitcoinlimit | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sorry, im an avg pleb, didn’t realize you run a serious stuff on cg
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aco | 6 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 proton ftw