Sats per Big Mac #2543
Sats per Big Mac #2543
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TIL the Economist actually maintains a github repository for their Big Mac Index. Nice haha good job. |
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Yeah! I was surprised too, but apparently it's true that you can find anything on the internet. Thank you so much! |
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| const getBigMacPrice = cachedFetcher(async function fetchBigMacPrice () { | ||
| const csvUrl = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/master/output-data/big-mac-raw-index.csv' |
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I think this is good enough for the first version, but I think it would be a lot cooler if the data would update more frequently. It seems to update every 6 months but for some reason, the last update is 2025-01-01, not 2025-07-01 🤔
They documented here how they calculated it.
I think it would be really funny if we would have the most up-to-date big mac prices just to show them in sats, could be good for marketing haha
But as mentioned, more something for a follow-up PR, #2502 is only labeled as good-first-issue anyway.
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Oh wait, I forgot the number we display is going to update frequently because we calculate it in sats anyway. I thought we would just be staring at the same number for a long time.
And I assume Big Mac prices in USD don't update that often, that's why The Economist is also not issuing updates very often.
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I tried to find a more frequently updated price source but Big Macs are as stable as gold ahah
| if (!price || price < 0 || !bigMacPrice) return null | ||
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| <AccessibleButton id='bigmac-hint' description='Show satoshis per Big Mac' className={compClassName} onClick={handleClick} variant='link'> | ||
| {fixedDecimal(Math.round((bigMacPrice / price) * 100000000), 0)} sats/Big Mac |
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What if it's a Whopper instead? 👀
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we can put the whole MC menu :P
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fwiw, I like sats/Big Mac more than sats/🍔 😅
Description
adding requested feature in #2502
Added a new "Big Mac Index" ticker to the price carousel that displays how many satoshis are needed to buy a Big Mac;
'bigmac'to price carousel rotationGraphQLresolver that fetches Big Mac prices from The Economist's official GitHub repositoryScreenshots
Additional Context
The data is cached for 24 hours since Big Mac prices don't change frequently. The feature includes robust error handling with fallback to the last known Big Mac price ($5.79) if the external data source is unavailable. Used existing
cachedFetcherpattern for data fetchingChecklist
Are your changes backward compatible? Please answer below:
yes
On a scale of 1-10 how well and how have you QA'd this change and any features it might affect? Please answer below:
8/10
For frontend changes: Tested on mobile, light and dark mode? Please answer below:
yes
Did you introduce any new environment variables? If so, call them out explicitly here:
NaN
Did you use AI for this? If so, how much did it assist you?
i did use ai just to understand the context and do research about big mac prices