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Automate generation/updates of CurrencyDictionary #1691
Description
The CurrencyDictionary provided by the API via GET /wallet/currencies has a lot of data which we may want to automate the handling of so as to remove a tedious, error-prone manual process. It's unclear what the requirements of this might be yet, but it should be aware of the following details:
- at the time of issue creation, the API endpoint expects all currency codes to be unique. In other words, a mainnet and testnet code cannot collide as they are all held in the dictionary together.
- we don't enumerate ALL of the cryptocurrencies (yet) and only have the wallet-supported currencies. They need to be differentiated via https://ticker.openbazaar.org/whitelist against CoinMarketCap's API to disambiguate coins with conflicting symbols.
- there is the potential that any code may not actually be unique and will collide and that needs to be resolved (ex: mainnet and testnet code, or two testnet codes).
(Note: This work follows incomplete/extra scope for #1586)