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    Home » Crypto News » Cryptocurrency Market Cap Hits $1 Trillion Milestone: There’s Still Much to Go

    Cryptocurrency Market Cap Hits $1 Trillion Milestone: There’s Still Much to Go

    Author: George Georgiev

    Last Updated Jan 6, 2021 @ 21:34

    The total cryptocurrency market capitalization has hit a landmark milestone today. It breached over the coveted $1 trillion.

    The situation in the cryptocurrency market is currently as exciting as it has ever been. Bitcoin is charting new highs daily, altcoins are also starting to see some notable gains, resulting in massive growth for the entire market.

    For the first time ever, the market did something that not a lot of people believed in back a few years ago – it reached a total capitalization of $1 trillion.

    The Four Comma Club

    It took some time, but the cryptocurrency market capitalization has finally hit the coveted $1 trillion mark. It’s now a member of the four comma club, though we have to see if this will last.

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    Cryptocurrency Market Cap. Source: CoinGecko

    The move is substantial for the industry which grew astronomically in the past years. Compared to the beginning of 2020, the market cap is up a whopping 420%.

    Having said this, the bulk of it comes from Bitcoin, which currently accounts for about 67% of the total market. This relative share of the cryptocurrency is also commonly referred to as the Bitcoin dominance index and has fluctuated largely throughout the years.

    Second in line is Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency – Ether (ETH).

    Over the years, many cryptocurrencies have come and gone from the top 10 but at the time of this writing, a definitive third is the popular stablecoin USDT (Tether). It’s the most commonly used stablecoin as traders use it to hedge their positions and also to denominate their trading portfolio. This is especially true in the derivatives market where high leverage exchanges allow trading against USDT.

    Plenty of Room to Grow

    Bitcoin is the world’s largest cryptocurrency by means of market cap and the latest increase is largely due to the increase in its price.

    The most common comparison for Bitcoin is that with gold. It’s been regarded by gold 2.0 by many and that’s somewhat expected. They share a lot of qualities, the most predominant one being their scarcity. There’s a limited amount of gold on the planet and there will only be 21 million bitcoins in existence.

    This is why people refer to gold as a store of value – it doesn’t inflate because we can’t get more of it (unlike fiat currency that’s not backed by gold). The same is true for bitcoins and the narrative that it’s a store of value is growing tremendously, especially in the past year. Riddled by the global pandemic, governments around the world have started printing money to keep their economies afloat – a process that ultimately reduces the value of the existing money in a process known as inflation.

    This is where the similarities kind of end, though, and Bitcoin starts to shine. This is perhaps the reason for which massive institutional investors and NASDAQ-listed companies have started to turn to it.

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    But what is gold’s market cap? Well, according to a BBC article from 2020, there are around 190,000 tonnes of gold already mined in total. There’s no exact estimate of how much left there is and it’s a moving target, but some predictions put it around 20% higher than this number. It’s also worth noting that this is gold that’s economically viable to be mined. New technology might make it so that other reserves that are currently not worth mining, to be worth it.

    At the current prices per ounce, this puts the total market cap at around $13.5 trillion or roughly around 1,460% larger than that of BTC. In other words – there’s plenty of room to grow!

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    Georgi Georgiev is CryptoPotato's editor-in-chief and a seasoned writer with over four years of experience writing about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Georgi's passion for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies bloomed in late 2016 and he hasn't looked back since. Crypto’s technological and economic implications are what interest him most, and he has one eye turned to the market whenever he’s not sleeping. Contact George: LinkedIn

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