Slides from SB.Js meetup

1. Building A Cryptocurrency Bot with
Node.Js
Brendan Connolly
@theBConnolly
http://brendanconnolly.net

2. What’s Crypto?

3. 3
Some Crypto Rules MemeStyle
DYOR - Do Your Own Research

4. 4
Never Buy More
Than you can afford
to lose

5. Hang On for Dear Life
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6. 6
In Reality...

7. Fear Of
Missing Out
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8. 8
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

9. 9
Basically Any Coin
you don’t own...

10. 10

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12. Why Build This?

13. Pricing - Market Vs. Coinbase
Premium over Market
~$4 or ~0.06%

14. Pricing - Market Vs. Coinbase
Premium over Market
~$4 or ~0.9%

15. Pricing - Market Vs. Coinbase
Premium over Market
~$1 or ~0.8%

16. Fees!
4% On All Transactions
Plus 1.5% -4%
Depending On Payment
Method

17. What Should It Do?

18. Requirements
▫ Deposit Funds
▫ Check Balance
▫ Set A Price
▫ Buy Crypto
▫ Repeat
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19. What About Selling?
HODL! For Profits
TAXES!
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20. Building The Bot

21. Meet Hodler 21
Execution
Node-Schedule
Hodl & Profit!
GDAX Client
Coinbase API
GDAX-Node
Command Objs
Wrap GDAX-Node Api
Encapsulate Actions
Composable Scheduling

22. Going Serverless

23. Hodler In the Cloud-> AWS Lambda 23
Schedule
Using AWS Cloudwatch
Rules / Events
Package
Create a Lamba Function
Handler
Transpile to ES5
Node-Lambda
Deploy
More Node-Lambda

24. https://github.com/brendanconnolly/Hodler
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@theBConnolly
brendanconnolly.net