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2017 saw a meteoric rise in the price of Bitcoin, closing the year off its all-time high but registering a gain of close to 1400%. Over $1.6 Billion traded on BTC/CAD trading pairs monitored as part of the Canadian Bitcoin Index.

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If you have a traditional RESTful API then you may already be using an API management system such as Apigee, 3Scale, Kong or Amazon API Gateway. Using an API management platform has several advantages such as:

• Managing API authentication
• Analytics and logging
• Caching and traffic manipulation (e.g. transforming JSON to XML or adding a CORS header)
• Developer portals and interactive documentation
• Ability to monetize an API
• An additional layer of security (such as API request throttling)

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Zcash is a privacy-focussed decentralised cryptocurrency. Whereas in Bitcoin all transactions are public on the blockchain, so anyone can see and verify them, in Zcash when using shielded transactions, all amounts in addition to the sender and receiver are encrypted, and verification is completed through the use of zero-knowledge proofs.

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If 2015 were a good year for Bitcoin then 2016 was exceptional. Bitcoin made a new all-time high exceeding the prior high of $1136.86 made in December 2013, reaching a peak of $1340.43 closing the year just off that mark at $1317.33.

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For the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio we decided to use the Triathlon API to build an application so users could quickly compare the performances of any two athletes in the start lists. In this article we will introduce the application that was developed (in under a day) in order to demonstrate the various capabilities of the API and to provide an example of the API calls that it uses.