Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API

Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API by cryptoplot on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:06AM (#18628773)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API by dev_dull on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:54PM (#18629854)

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...”

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Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API by cryptoplot on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:20PM (#18630681)

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.

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