Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API
by dev_dull on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:22AM
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3.436k is a much simpler way to remove the zeros, and actually includes one less character.
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Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API
by cryptoplot on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:06AM
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Yes for BTC, then for something 10x that 34.36 start looking not as good.
We could make an option for people who prefer regular numbers. I will add that to the feature requests.
Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API
by dev_dull on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:54PM
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I think I’ll look back on this day in the future and smile:
At one point the crypto bulls were so bullish that they worried they wouldn’t easily be able to fit in enough zeroes for the price without using scientific notation...”
Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API
by cryptoplot on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:20PM
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I am indeed bullish on crypto, but the decision is driven by facts, not by passion.
The fact is the price range vary too much, even in the same scale (say BTC/USD vs XRP/USD), so we decided to have 5 characters for every price.
That requires the use of scientific notation.