It doesn't matter, mathematically. Psychologically, it absolutely does. Bitcoin running to $150 is way more splashy and headline-grabby than $15. And at Bitc

It doesn't matter, mathematically. Psychologically, it absolutely does. Bitcoin running to $150 is way more splashy and headline-grabby than $15. And at Bitcoin's beginning, it looked more respectable in gaining followers when 1 BTC was somewhere near $1 than if it were $0.01 and looking like some penny-stock scam. Same goes for stock prices. Apple and Google have let the shares run to $400 and $700 instead of splitting to a more industry-standard two-digit number. Of coures the per-share price is meaningless in itself, it'd be the same if ten times as many shares existed at one-tenth the price. But it's a lot easier to grab eyeballs with a stock shooting through $400, $500, $600 benchmarks than a pedestrian $50.