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The "price" of two coins in terms of fiat currency is not comparable. It depends on the total supply. The current total supply of ETH is ~120M vs BTC's 21M. If ETH was limited to, say, a total supply of 1000 coins the price would be astronomical.

Also ETH doesn't have an upper limit to the total supply, therefore its scarcity is not the same as BTC.

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So if there was a cryptocurrency with only one coin, the value of that coin would be even more astronomical, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin

If you can get people to buy/use it (like BTC, ETH, and countless others did), yes it would be.

The number of coins is just a definition. Bitcoin has satoshis (similar to cents) that represent one millionth of a Bitcoin. You could have defined it such that Bitcoin is actually a single coin worth $1T, and BTC is 1/21,000,000th of it.

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