Introducing Coin Price Pages: Where Crypto Prices Meet Stories

Cryptocurrency is one of the cornerstones of HackerNoon. We’ve published tens of thousands of stories about #blockchain, #bitcoin and just about everything else around #cryptocurrency since 2016 (back then the term #web3 hadn’t even been coined!). But as the crypto space evolves, so does HackerNoon, and our next step is to provide our readers and writers with better data within our technology publishing platform. To do so, we will be adding cryptocurrency price pages at hackernoon.com/coins and individual coin price pages such as $BTC, $ETH, and $USDT. These coin price sites combine curated stories with timely data to form a qualitative and quantitative hub about each of the top cryptocurrencies. As a technology publishing platform, we concentrate on integrating more API-driven data sources about companies, cryptocurrencies, software and people to better reflect the technology industry. These coin price pages will be a quantitative and qualitative destination to learn more about what is happening with each cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency is one of the cornerstones of HackerNoon. We’ve published tens of thousands of stories about #blockchain, #bitcoin and just about everything else around #cryptocurrency since 2016 (back then the term #web3 hadn’t even been coined!).

But as the crypto space evolves, so does HackerNoon, and our next step is to provide our readers and writers with better data within our technology publishing platform. To do so, we will be adding cryptocurrency price pages at hackernoon.com/coins and individual coin price pages such as $BTC, $ETH, and $USDT. These coin price sites combine curated stories with timely data to form a qualitative and quantitative hub about each of the top cryptocurrencies.

What constitutes each coin price page?

First, price and market value are treated as design equals at the top of the page. Why? Because too much of the crypto and mainstream media talk about Bitcoin breaking $10k, $20k, $50k, etc. (ie price per unit) but in reality what they should be talking about is the overall growth of the pie ie .$300M, $500M, $1B, etc. (ie market cap). This simple but important distinction is missed by most mainstream media.

As a resource for learning about cryptocurrency, we’ve chosen to start with these data points at the top of the page to emphasize overall long-term growth as equal to short-term price fluctuations.

We partner with CoinMarketCap and pull in API prices that can be adjusted by day, week, month and year.

That’s not all! Our VP Engineering Richard has built a line graph that displays a HackerNoon clock icon to indicate times when a HackerNoon story was published with this coin as a tag. This is a point of curation, visually blending raw data with timely stories.

Below the graph, we also show several data points relevant to coin price evaluations, trading volume and circulating supply. In the future, we are looking to display more cryptocurrency prices and usage data on this page.

You’ll also see relevant stories about the cryptocurrency from HackerNoon stories and around the rest of the web. These curated stories match the time frame selected on the graph with the first list generated from reading time on relevant tagged stories via the HackerNoon API and the second list of stories around the web powered by our partner Bing News’ API (which we also use to curate news sites for technology companies).

Towards the bottom Coin price page, we also actively write, crowdsource, review and edit a Wiki on each cryptocurrency. This will include details of such tokens’ technology stack, founding history, business development, internet history, milestones and more. This content will be consistently updated over time, providing an original and fact-checked editorial perspective defining each cryptocurrency that breaks the $1B market cap barrier.

The cryptocurrency coin ranking page

HackerNoon’s coin price ranking page will display prices, data and stories about the world’s cryptocurrencies. It can be sorted by market value, price, price change in 24 hours, and for fun, alphabetically. Let us know in the comments how you want these pages to develop 🙂

As a technology publishing platform, we concentrate on integrating more API-driven data sources about companies, cryptocurrencies, software and people to better reflect the technology industry. These coin price pages will be a quantitative and qualitative destination to learn more about what is happening with each of the top cryptocurrencies.