I had to come up with something completely different, and in a day or two I'll know if this works or not. Since the market cap is dropping and it still is doing it's thing, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet. Since Bitcoin dropped 8% today, I've lost a little bit of fiat, but by tomorrow it should be back and there is no chance that Bitcoin is going to be able to drop as fast as I'll be gaining.
The only way to reduce this momentum would be if most people/robots/institutions stopped trading. And I have a hard time seeing that happening, as it is a gold mine for the cunning. Or a gold-mind-to-be for the cunning-wannabe.
One interesting aspect of this whole thing is that the bulk of my code is 134 lines of Python. Apart from that I reused maybe a one to two hundred lines of code from my previous attempt. If everything works out, this scales exponentially up to millionaire (not billionaire). In which case I can put all worries about uninteresting, non-scaling work aside and focus on the important work: spirituality and cold fusion energy. Yey!
