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koonsolo 3 days ago

So the bitcoin market cap is currently at $1.8 trillion.

You can compare that to USD M0 which is $5 trillion or EUR M0 which is around €4 trillion.

Not bad for an "extremely inconvenient database".

stephen_g 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Market cap is pretty hypothetical though - if somebody actually tried to liquidate $50bn of bitcoin into fiat money you'd probably send the BTC price to about zero...

petesergeant 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

South Sea Company at its height was worth almost 3x British GDP. Not bad for a company "with negligible business activities"!

koonsolo 2 days ago | parent [-]

We've been hearing the story for years already that the Bitcoin value will go to zero.

baq 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Slippage yo. Market cap means jack shit if the true order book is thin like a slice of carpaccio.