HowMuchLitecoinHasChewMined

HowMuchLitecoinHasChewMined was a bot for IRC written in the cinch Ruby IRC library. It was archived on GitHub on August 15, 2019.

Pre-Development

Back when she was in high school, Chew learned more about and got into a little bit of Litecoin mining. She discovered a site called LitecoinPool where people can pool their mining devices (in this case, her computers) into a giant "pool". This had an API available, so she quickly wrote up a bot to view her stats.

Commands

The bot only had one command, you simply typed "HowMuchLitecoinHasChewMined" into chat and it would tell you just that, plus a little bit more. A typical response looked like the following:

Chew has mined $0.046056013685478396 worth of Litecoin. (LTC: $210.01) (Mined: 0.00021930390784) (Hashes Solved: 143227092992)

Each response would show her balance (LTC value times mined amount), the current Litecoin price at the time, how much she's mined, and how many hashes she has solved.

Phasing Out

The last known usage of the bot was on March 3rd, 2018 and around that time the whole idea of mining faded out (as it was horribly inefficient), so the idea was scraped.

Trivia

• The bot was invoked approximately 75 times in the ChewChat #lobby channel.
• Even though the bot is archived, the code is still usable!
• The code was written in such a way to allow anyone with a Litecoinpool account to enter their email and get their own command "HowMuchLitecoinHas(user)Mined".