I’ve now added the ability to comment and am fine tuning replies :) thanks again for all the great feedback.

I've just added the ability to save interesting posts. You will see a button that says "favorite" under each post. You will be prompted to sign up and then it will save it your account to access at a later stage. Next up comments and discussions :)

Thank you everyone for the great feedback. Please feel free to share any helpful links that explain blockchain, cryptocurrencies, ICOs etc. and I will post on the 101 resource page. I am very new to this and only a curious observer of the cryptocurrency wave

I may, in the meantime you can access it via my backend service. It's a mongodb store https://cryptoserver.now.sh/threads

Once again I’d appreciate any great 101 resources people have found explaining blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other related topics. I will look at adding more content to the 101 page. I know very little about the topic and just chose this as a random topic for news scraping. I am very much learning :)

Thanks for your comments. This is very much an early prototype and I appreciate your comments. I will be looking to add the ability to comment next. Regarding adding text at the bottom I thought it might be easier for people to read a glimpse of text before deciding to open the link, I’ve found this useful in my own browsing. The actual link has a 5 second redirect because I am using the free tier currently for webhose.io api (a great news scraping provider). if I get enough traction I may look at getting a paid account, but this is very much a side project

Sorry if I confused anyone, didn’t mean to start a flame war. It was just the first domain I found that was available, I didn’t think too much about it

Thanks. I've simply used the coinmarketcap API to get the currency feeds, super straight forward. It fetches from the client side. Anyone can use it here https://coinmarketcap.com/api/

For scraping I've used the webhose api (I am still on the free account hence when u click on the link it has a 5 second redirect). I've found it is an excellent resource and easy to use API, I highly recommend it http://webhose.io/

For the tech stack its just node.js and express on the backend and vanilla JS on the front end using webpack for bundling. I built this project really as a means to teach myself to write unit tests better and mock integration tests. In the first iterations I fed the news articles after they were scraped into Google's Natural Language Processing library to get the sentiment of the article. I scrapped this after it became too inaccurate.

Cool. Ill add that to the list. Please provide suggestions of other topics and I will add it in :D