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Refactor tutorials/exchange_single_node.html

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
blockchain

Research direction

Start with tutorials/exchange_single_node.html and compare it with the older documentation at the linked #others section. Review the proposed Introduction, Requirements and Environment, Setup, Watching accounts, deposit, withdrawal, and References sections. Done means the tutorial has a coherent structure and understandable, complete guidance for the exchange single-node workflow.

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Description

I find this very confusing
https://dev.bitshares.works/en/master/bts_guide/tutorials/exchange_single_node.html

I think lots of it got lost in translation, but it would also make sense to review this content wise. I find it hard to understand.

Thougts on the TOC and some pointers on the content from my side, built out as we go:

  1. Introduction
    What is this about? External exchange listening in on the blockchain for deposits/withdrawals, talk about last irreversible block and stuff
  2. Requirements and Environment
    Software/Hardware requirements
  3. Setup
    Running one normal node, delayed node or processing lib and whatnot (cli wallet, python or js backend on abstract high level), how everything should be setup (as system services, or docker, or something)
  4. Watching accounts
    Best practice to listen to events on the blockchain
    4.1 Processing deposits
    Listen on external database/blockchain for incoming deposits, and broadcast the issue/transfer operation
    4.2. Recognizing withdrawal requests
    Listen to incoming blocks on specified account with memo and act accordingly in external database/blockchain
  5. References

Old docs had this (also not complete): https://dev.bitshares.works/en/master/bts_guide/tutorials/exchange_single_node.html#others

Thougts?
@abitmore @oxarbitrage @jmjatlanta @xeroc

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