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by cryptoplot 2748 days ago
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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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...”

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.