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 # Dash-html-ticker
+## A small copy-and-paste HTML Dash price widget
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+This is a small self-contained Dash price widget. It uses the coinmarketcap.com API at https://coinmarketcap-nexuist.rhcloud.com/ to retrieve the price of Dash and display it on a webpage.
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