Awesome project, I was looking exactly for this! Thanks a lot for creating it!

I have no experience with php, nor setting up a server for this purpose. Can someone give me a quick help installing marginbot?
I saw some people mentioning 000webhost.com. I tried it but got stuck, couldn't figure out how to upload files and setup what I needed (kept getting an ftp error). If you have other suggestions of low-cost web servers to host it, I'm also up for it.

Best,
Andre

When you say profitable, what exactly do you mean?

I ask that because if you plan to only lend USD, I don't see many ways in which you lose money in this investment (except for credit risk and failure to repay the loan by the exchange). On top of that, lending rates are higher than a lot of other fixed-rate investments in USD.

So as long as you're comfortable with the credit risk, I believe it is still worth it.

Since you were already able to make it work once, just start with a fresh VM and from scratch, if it is only a hobby project?

A possible issue could be that the clock in your VM is off, read up on "NTP" how to fix that.

I have been trying to set this up and its been having some issues. Does anyone know if this is still working/updated?

If not does anyone have a good suggestion for an alternative?

Hey,

Since you mentioned that the Margin Bot is still working I was wondering if you had any advice for me. I have tried installing the bot twice first on a Centos Vps and then again on shared hosting through godaddy. Both times I made sure short tags were enabled and that the server/shared hosting had php 5.3+ and I double checked that curl was enabled and working. + I made sure to 777 chmod the config file.

I would then run into the same problem on both setups. After the second page of the install where you click something like "finish install" I would click it and it would basically just refresh the page and stay on the second page of the install process.

After that I would go to the index and try to login and my login would not work. So I checked the mysql db and the tables were created for users ect... but they were left completely blank leading me to believe there is some kind of problem with the connection to the mysql database.

If you have any advice or suggestions it would be greatly appreciated I have been trying to fix this for two days now.

Glad you got it working! Does your API code have the correct API authorizations for the bot? That's really all I can think of...

I'm using this one:

https://github.com/deponzit/MarginBot

Hello everyone,

thank you very much for this piece of software. I want to use it, cause I wanna split my lending positions half and half between poloniex and bitfinex. When I get it up and running, expect my earnings from the first month as donation.

I think I am just one step away from a proper setup. My cron jobs are scheduled and I executed them manually too. But there is always the message "It appears you have not set up the 10 minute cron, or it hasn't been running."
The hourly job seems to be fine.

When I run the TenMinuteCron.php directly in a browser I get the following message:
I granted read access for everything and write access for funding to the API. I'm able to set funding offers manually via website. My deposited BTC amount is not much right now, but enough for testing.

Could anyone help me out? Am running Ubuntu 16.04 with the current MySQL, Apache, PHP from sources.

Thank you very much

Evening gents,
Just wondering, I got an email from Bitfinex today stating that they will be updating their API on Jan 18. I've been running MarginBot for 1 full year now, flawlessly. Will this API update break MarginBot? I'm not very proficient in the ways of the code.

Much thanks for any replies.