anthonyhodlbot

I built a way to enable users to index the cryptocurrency market via exchange APIs and have been operating it for about 3 years now.

We've done about 100M in transactions. Some of the indices we built were a top 20 by market cap (10% cap), top 30 by squared root market cap.

If you guys want to check it out: https://www.hodlbot.io

I pulled this data from the Twitter Premium API using primarily the counts endpoint for tweets mentioning Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter. I was able to pull the aggregate # of Tweet mentions over time for these topics, as well as # of Tweets by State over time.

If apps on personal servers can’t collect data, then they will need to charge money in order to have an economic incentive to support the app, ship updates, upgrade UI, etc. If there is a competing “free” option then from a centralized monolith, then it’s going to be very difficult for the PCC app to deal with.

Paid apps are also inherently less viral and can’t tap into network effects as well due to the friction resulting from payments. In order to overcome this, PCC apps need to develop a viable revenue model without putting a paywall.

I see the PCC model work for applications where neither the consumer and the business want to store sensitive data because the security overhead is too high.

E.g. trading bot that doesn’t want to store user’s API keys. In fact, running private servers is something that is pretty common in that world.