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Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API by DINKDINK on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:41PM (#18632370)
>we assume the Law of Large Number apply

Null hypothesis mandates you make no such assumption. Even if you did, a gaussian distribution assumes variable independence which markets are most certainly not. Even still if the variables were independent, you surely don't have enough samples of prices to report an accurate mean.

Re:Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API by cryptoplot on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:33PM (#18633945)
Agreed. We should not make such assumptions, because the number of exchanges is still quite low.

But you would be surprised to know how many samples we have at any moment!