Vitalik Buterin:

Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.

Bitcoin and, more broadly, blockchain is undoubtedly a technology that is here to stay. This program aims to visualize the BTC-USD exchange rate, which remains very volatile. This is not financial advice~~, but if you don't believe in crypto I'll kill you~~!

This algorithm does many things.

• It prints the current price of Bitcoin.
• It plots the Bitcoin's performance in the last 10 days on a line graph.
• It uploads the historical data into a SQL database, but not before converting it into a pandas dataframe!

If creating the database for the first time, use create_database_table(), with the dataframe and desired table name as parameters. If you just want to edit/update the table, use load_database() and edit with MySQL, then use save_database().

Current BTC-USD exchange rate is taken from the Bitcoin Price Index, courtesy of Coindesk.

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