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Re:Bitcoin ad was literally a chart crime by dredmorbius on Friday September 06, 2019 @12:59PM (#20897379)
Log axes for highly-variable or compounded-growth data are not only valuable for showing low-scale movements, but greatly reduce apparent growth. They're commonly used in financial data.

Compare:

Linear scale: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=oMZ6

Log scale: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=oMZi

Re:Bitcoin ad was literally a chart crime by sharkmerry on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:03PM (#20897413)
You can compare them here, https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin/historical-price/

Maybe I am wrong, but Isnt log scale the standard for investing charts?

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/logvslinear.asp

Re:Bitcoin ad was literally a chart crime by londons_explore on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:01PM (#20897398)
For readers from outside the UK, you should understand that the 'authority' here isn't really a government body, and never really issues punishments.

They pretty much embarrass companies into having good honest ads, and mostly it works. No company wants to be called out on having a dishonest ad by them.

Re:Bitcoin ad was literally a chart crime by codeswap on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:34PM (#20897739)
Doesn't a log scale make the price increase look lower?
Re:Bitcoin ad was literally a chart crime by aeternum on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:56PM (#20898667)
Yes, but also makes it look much more stable which is disingenuous, esp. with something notoriously volatile like bitcoin.
Re:Bitcoin ad was literally a chart crime by parliament32 on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:28PM (#20897674)
But long-term financial asset charts are supposed to always be log scale...