Bitcoin is closely related to Blockchain technology, so I am sure that some of the people who are interested in Bitcoin have never considered the size of the market cap, but rather its function. For me, the market cap list in the picture is only a general measure, whereas I don't really need it for my purposes of investing in Bitcoin.
100% agree
Actually I've seen only crypto people talk about Gold or Silver Market cap
When will Bitcoin catch up with Gold in capitalization?I've never found those concepts in a gold forum.
Talking about gold or silver market cap doesn't make any sense.
This is a simple question that still remain unreplied
Question to all: when you say gold market cap, are you talking about
a) all gold above ground? so jewellery too? gold teeth? gold within industrial products? or just
b) monetary gold (coins and bars)?
If you are comparing gold vs. BTC, currency vs. currency, shouldn't you consider only monetary gold?
"Gold Market Cap", "Silver Market Cap" are senseless concepts.
Just think about this:
1) there are these big inventories (the metals backing ETFs... countries' gold reserves... etc.). These are major components of those Market Cap figures.
Well... no audit! Nobody checks whether those tons are really there.
Only financial statements.
2) think of all gold and silver that is not recorded. No records.
Most gold and silver around the world is not recorded.
This is of course true re her earrings or the silver in the batteries of your smartphone, but imo it's true also re monetary precious metals (bars and coins).
That gold and silver sits in some vault. Nobody knows.
I'm not talking about grandpa's coins collection, I'm talking e.g. about inventories of High Net Worth families.
Or think about the silver inventories of producers like Samsung, Apple... or carmakers, companies that need silver to build their products.
How many tonnes of silver do they hold stored?
Obviously they protect themselves from possible supply issues.
Those who try to give a number to that Market Cap figure, how can they assess these inventories?