Comment by Valentina_Zyla | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Valentina_Zyla | Hacker News Reader

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Having 200+ pairs is not the same as 200+ currencies, so that’s quite misleading. You can have 200 pairs with 21 currencies.

You're right, it should say 180 currencies. We'll also have many criptocurrencies

Well 180 is every currency, so you’ll have every single currency but only 1 pair for each currency except a select few with more?

50 of those currencies are fixed exchange rate so there’s not much point in an API. To be completely blunt it sounds like you just Googled how many currencies exist and said you’ll support them all.

These are all of the currencies that we'll have. Base currencies available are USD, GBP and EUR. There are 164 currencies, 172 counting cryptocurrencies.

| United Arab Emirates Dirham | Afghan Afghani | Albanian Lek | Armenian Dram | Netherlands Antillean Guilder | Angolan Kwanza | Argentine Peso | Australian Dollar | Aruban Florin | Azerbaijani Manat | Bosnia-Herzegovina Convertible Mark | Barbadian Dollar | Bangladeshi Taka | Bulgarian Lev | Bahraini Dinar | Burundian Franc | Bermudan Dollar | Brunei Dollar | Bolivian Boliviano | Brazilian Real | Bahamian Dollar | Bhutanese Ngultrum | Botswanan Pula | Belarusian Ruble | New Belarusian Ruble | Belize Dollar | Canadian Dollar | Congolese Franc | Swiss Franc | Chilean Unit of Account (UF) | Chilean Peso | Chinese Yuan | Colombian Peso | Costa Rican Colón | Cuban Convertible Peso | Cuban Peso | Cape Verdean Escudo | Czech Republic Koruna | Djiboutian Franc | Danish Krone | Dominican Peso | Algerian Dinar | Egyptian Pound | Eritrean Nakfa | Ethiopian Birr | Euro | Fijian Dollar | Falkland Islands Pound | British Pound Sterling | Georgian Lari | Guernsey Pound | Ghanaian Cedi | Gibraltar Pound | Gambian Dalasi | Guinean Franc | Guatemalan Quetzal | Guyanaese Dollar | Hong Kong Dollar | Honduran Lempira | Croatian Kuna | Haitian Gourde | Hungarian Forint | Indonesian Rupiah | Israeli New Sheqel | Manx pound | Indian Rupee | Iraqi Dinar | Iranian Rial | Icelandic Króna | Jersey Pound | Jamaican Dollar | Jordanian Dinar | Japanese Yen | Kenyan Shilling | Kyrgystani Som | Cambodian Riel | Comorian Franc | North Korean Won | South Korean Won | Kuwaiti Dinar | Cayman Islands Dollar | Kazakhstani Tenge | Laotian Kip | Lebanese Pound | Sri Lankan Rupee | Liberian Dollar | Lesotho Loti | Lithuanian Litas | Latvian Lats | Libyan Dinar | Moroccan Dirham | Moldovan Leu | Malagasy Ariary | Macedonian Denar | Myanma Kyat | Mongolian Tugrik | Macanese Pataca | Mauritanian Ouguiya | Mauritian Rupee | Maldivian Rufiyaa | Malawian Kwacha | Mexican Peso | Malaysian Ringgit | Mozambican Metical | Namibian Dollar | Nigerian Naira | Nicaraguan Córdoba | Norwegian Krone | Nepalese Rupee | New Zealand Dollar | Omani Rial | Panamanian Balboa | Peruvian Nuevo Sol | Papua New Guinean Kina | Philippine Peso | Pakistani Rupee | Polish Zloty | Paraguayan Guarani | Qatari Riyal | Romanian Leu | Serbian Dinar | Russian Ruble | Rwandan Franc | Saudi Riyal | Solomon Islands Dollar | Seychellois Rupee | Sudanese Pound | Swedish Krona | Singapore Dollar | Saint Helena Pound | Sierra Leonean Leone | Somali Shilling | Surinamese Dollar | São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra | Salvadoran Colón | Syrian Pound | Swazi Lilangeni | Thai Baht | Tajikistani Somoni | Turkmenistani Manat | Tunisian Dinar | Tongan Paʻanga | Turkish Lira | Trinidad and Tobago Dollar | New Taiwan Dollar | Tanzanian Shilling | Ukrainian Hryvnia | Ugandan Shilling | United States Dollar | Uruguayan Peso | Uzbekistan Som | Venezuelan Bolívar Fuerte | Vietnamese Dong | Vanuatu Vatu | Samoan Tala | CFA Franc BEAC | East Caribbean Dollar | CFA Franc BCEAO | CFP Franc | Yemeni Rial | South African Rand | Zambian Kwacha (pre-2013) | Zambian Kwacha | Zimbabwean Dollar | Bitcoin | Ethereum | Uniswap | Chainlink | Stellar | Cardano | Bitcoin Cash | Litecoin

I'm not sure there even could be 200+ currencies? There are only 193 members of the UN and many will share either the Euro or the US Dollar as their currency. E.g. countries like El Salvador just directly use Dollars and don't have their own currency.

So it's either referring to how many pairs they support or the marketing is over reaching a fair amount...

Currency data is free and everyone has it including yahoo. How does this compete with, say, IEX?

The main benefit is that since it's an API, it's easy to integrate it into your app, website, or a google spreadsheet

There are dozens of forex api providers out there. It’s a commodity. What does this one compete on against the rest?

Our data is more accurate and we have better customer support.

Who has free intraday data going back years? So far the only one I've found is Dukascopy. OP's website doesn't seem to say whether it does or not.

We haven't confirmed whether we'll be able to get the intraday data from another source, hopefully we'll have most of them starting from 2010 at the latest. If that's not possible then it'll have to be since our launch date. But having several years is a high priority.

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