How to run (example)

python buyer.py ETH 16

Programming Test

• Background

  • Bittrex.com is a site for trading crypto currency
  • https://github.com/ericsomdahl/python-bittrex is a python API that let's you get market data

• Task

  • Make a python script that uses the "python-bittrex" api
  • use the get_orderbook method from the file:
    • https://github.com/ericsomdahl/python-bittrex/blob/master/bittrex/bittrex.py
    • You get a list of orders - people buying and selling different amounts for different prices

• Inputs

  • currency name (like "ETH")
  • amount to sell (like 16)

• Outputs

  • The function returns how much bitcoin you would get for selling that amount, by looking at the current buy offers
  • buy offers look like this (click below to expand) "buy" : [ { "Quantity" : 12.00000000, "Rate" : 0.02525000 }, { "Quantity" : 15.37000000, "Rate" : 0.02515000 }, { "Quantity" : 11.37000000, "Rate" : 0.02505000 }, ],
  • Selling 16 units into this orderbook would sell 12 at 0.02525000 and 4 at 0.02515000
  • result would be 0.4036