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.
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...”