This model forecasts Bitcoin network difficulty on a day by day basis using historical difficulty/hash rate data and monthly growth rate as inputs.
There is also an example of Bitcoin mining calculator that utilizes the model.
This is a spin-off of my work on http://www.bitreturn.com.
Build and install bitcoin_difficulty_model gem into system gems:
$ rake install
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'bitcoin_difficulty_model'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install bitcoin_difficulty_model
Take a look at usage example in bin/bitcoin_mining_calc.rb. Please note that when you create BitcoinDifficultyModel::BlocksImport with default arguments, it will download historical data from http://blockexplorer.com/q/nethash, you may want to cache this data locally and pass local file url (file:///..) into BlocksImport constructor.
$ rake test
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Added some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request