For now I have adjusted my weighted inputs from several market API feeds. It results in lesser banding from my feed, closer in the -0.7% +0.7% range of the median. I have applied and tested the magicwallet api by using the btsprice tool, however it is currently giving me an `Assert Exception: bitasset.feeds.count(o.publisher):` when trying to publish with the adjusted code. I will try to debug this and see how to get magicwallets data added to my feed-weighing. Thank you.

Voted, great initiative! Thank you Apasia.tech

Wow, time flies! Almost a year since my original witness announcement.

I've just recently fired up a websocket api node at  wss://btsws.roelandp.nl/ws

The past year was great full of highs & lows but my main highs were organising SteemFest in Lisbon (including organising a hackathon for Bitshares and other graphene chains) and most excitement was the shutdown and restart of the BTS chain past july due to an unforeseen error in the BTS software. (fyi: main lows were in family health sphere )

I would like to take an opportunity to summarise my contributions for Bitshares platform past year, if people drop by this thread:

• Made various witness tools for server monitoring and automated failover switching when a node starts missing blocks. See my github: https://github.com/roelandp
• Made adjustments for alt's BTS-bot price tool to keep it running after he left the platform including setting up a mimick api for feeding dex-data into the bot: http://roelandp-nl.s3.amazonaws.com/btsbots-api-result/index.html - You need my bts-bot fork (see my github)
• Setup the oft used pricefeed monitoring tool: https://roelandp.nl/bitshareswitnesslog
• Several individual pricefeed scripts for smart coins - see my github.
• Organised a hackathon for bitshares during Steemfest last year in Lisbon.
• Was actively participating in relaunching the blockchain during last july's crash.

Thank you for your enduring trust and let's make it another great year for the Dex!

I made a mod for BTSprice to continue supporting the no longer running btsbots.com DEX order books. https://github.com/roelandp/btsprice

I do actually use BTSPrice for feeding most of the "currency" markets and gold silver. It's  a great tool and very all-entailing featurerich and well coded by @alt , however as announced, he stopped maintaining it with his exit of BTS. Hence my addition on my GH.

But i do also run separate scripts for more custom needed feeds, like HERO , Bit20, and now, Hertz.  These are (imho) less about continuous realtime market monitoring (which btsprice-tool for currency markets perfectly serves) and more about the one-off-calculate-ad-hoc algoritmic based feed pushes. Those feeds (in my case) are all based of combining the algorithm calculation with publishing the feed by utilising the feed_publish command from pybitshares. Link with "individual" scripts https://github.com/roelandp/bts-misc-pricefeeds

That said, let's keep this thread for Hertz / Hero and see whether someone jumps on your bounty and focus back to Hertz

https://gist.github.com/roelandp/a676e2915ca9ac999cecab90f698e5c6#file-pf-hertz-py-L61

if we need to go back & forth quicklier, please hook me up on telegram. you can guess my username.

Hey @Customminer great, sounds interesting, would love to learn a bit more about your thoughts behind the oscillation. Do you have some more info on the (fixed) formula and where can I learn a bit more about the Hertz asset? ... what day would be 0% etc. etc. 

Updates!

• SteemFest was great again and with help of the worker we could organise the hackathon as well! Thanks, community, for voting in the worker. Please see https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,24937.0.html for the full report.
• Just before HF 18 @alt has unfortunately decided to stop btsbots.com and therefore urged witnesses to stop using the btsprice-tool as it used an api for a formatted version of the dex' orderbooks he ran off the btsbots.com domain/node. Personally I was very disappointed as I am a huge fan of the precision and durability (and lightweightness) of his script/tool. Therefore I setup a stack of JSON API-endpoints  (basically static 5 min cached files) mimicking the expected results of the orderbook api which @alt used to have available on BtsBots.com.
  
  • You can find all static api files (cached about 5 mins) here: http://roelandp-nl.s3.amazonaws.com/btsbots-api-result/index.html
  • On this script you can see how I compose the API static files with python-bitshares: https://github.com/roelandp/btsprice/blob/master/docs/btsbot-mimick.py
  • And finally, these are the changes you must apply to support the new url for picking up the orderbooks: https://github.com/pch957/btsprice/commit/3f87e858fa92e6ddd5094e94e511301a32d85728
  Rest assured I hope Alt will some day return to Bitshares!
• With HF18 the black swanned assets have now been revived and I've setup a repo sharing some of the custom pricefeed scripts I use to feed a couple of smartcoins. You can check em out here: https://github.com/roelandp/bts-misc-pricefeeds

Thank you for your trust.

Report of the SteemFest Blockchain Hackathon with Bitshares as a Focus Chain Sponsor
- thanks to the DAC Worker Proposal 1.14.59 Sponsorship. Thank you!

Last week the SteemFest2 event took place in Lisbon.  On the first day (1 November) we held a 24 hour hackathon where Bitshares took the stage as Focus Chain Sponsor. @wackou was so kind to do the full Bitshares introduction.

- My opening words can be seen here: https://d.tube/#!/v/juanmiguelsalas/ak5lmhgp
- @wackou 's Bitshares introduction can be seen here: https://d.tube/#!/v/juanmiguelsalas/07wfsy1n

In the hackathon venue (Silver Room @ Cowork Lisboa) we had about 70 people attending the opening words, developer introductions and coffees. It was so busy that we ran out of lanyards even hahaha. (also due to the fact that a sprint for the main conference SteemFest had absorbed many of them). I guess many people who had arrived early to SteemFest main conf (the next days) decided to join in and meet at the hacker space. All in all it was a great amount of people I must say.

After the opening remarks it was time for the hackathon to take off. The presentations where to be held at the main event on SteemFest Man Conference day 2 (on 3 november) in the Montes Claros Lisbon Secret Spot. Here we had invited all participants to mingle with the main conference attendees for some afternoon presentations and afterwards the hackathon presentations.

We asked @blocktrades to be the judge for the Bitshares hacks, however there was only one hack build on Bitshares (out of 6 hacks), which was somewhat disappointing. Nonetheless the Bounty platform for ICO run on Bitshares looks very beautiful as you can see by the winner's post @phenom on Steemit: https://steemit.com/ico/@phenom/steemfest-hackaton-first-steem-powered-fully-automated-bounty-platform-for-ico-is-out and can already be tested. That's just great work I must say.

Here you see me handing the 'Big Fat Fake Cheque' with the prize money of 1111 bitUSD to @phenom:


After the awards we gathered for drinks and dinner and an afterparty in downtown Lisbon.

Bitshares had (IMHO) a great presence at SteemFest with:
- Developer intro to 70 persons by @wackou
- Talks by @Xanoxt about Rudex and @Chris4210 about governance at the main event (300 attendees)
- Mentions:
-- Hackathon site: SteemFest.Devpost.com
-- Generic site under hackathon section: SteemFest.com
-- Mentions in announcement posts and emails
-- Mentions in thank you post
-- Mentions in thank you slides (at start of hackathon & main conf)
-- Printed logo on Citymap distributed to all 300 attendees
-- Printed logo on Hackathon Totem Pole on display at hackathon
-- Printed logo (repeated) on backdrop for photobooth
-- Printed logo on Badges of Hackathon & generic conference
-- Logo on wall during dinner at SteemFest venue day 2

In the meantime the prizemoney has already been transferred to the winner: http://cryptofresh.com/tx/ea3e16aba564d7bfeb024ab0744f53896b6db533

And we got paid the bitUSD (including the prize money) as part of the agreement for the worker, which was kindfully handled by @bitshares.foundation

Thank you very much for your support!