Most bitcoin donations to Erowid come in very small amounts and not super often. But, ever September, I need to have a daily tracking of incoming bitcoin donations to keep our daily September Drive numbers accurate.
Otherwise, there’s no reason to do day-to-day tracking of bitcoin donations. But, each year it seems each system I use to do server-side pull and parse of bitcoin donations into our contribution tracker change format or meaning. And again this year.
After some very generous folks contributed 45 bitcoin donations yesterday, it became clear that I needed to stop entering them manually into our contribution list and had to update the importer. So, this year, I’m using the JSON output from :
http://webbtc.com/address/
It took me a few hours of figuring out the differences between the different formats I’d been reading.
So, that makes 65 bitcoin donations so far in September. Hurray!
I also liked webbtc.com although I think they’re gone by now; most “explorer” sites that I found recently seem to be slippery slopes towards selling API tokens, rather than gratis data.
I’m quite interested to hear whether you still encounter similar problems; from the recent drive’s page, it looked as though bitcoin was much less popular, although this could have simply been due to Gresham’s Law being particularly strong in the current cryptoclimate.