Understanding what market cap is would help.
Market capitalization (market cap) is the total market value of the shares outstanding of a publicly traded company; it is equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding. As outstanding stock is bought and sold in public markets, capitalization could be used as a proxy for the public opinion of a company's net worth and is a determining factor in some forms of stock valuation.
If bitcoins price is $1 per btc and there are 16 million of them the market cap is 16 million. If Bitcoin price is $1000 per btc and there are 16 million of them the market cap is 16 billion.
Bitcoin currently costs $1,230 the market cap is $20 billion.
correct
if sh*tcoinX was $1 per sh*tcoinx and there are 5 trillion sh*tcoinx's then the market cap is $5trillion
the market cap is meaningless..
a better metric would be:
how many coins are on the market
how many coins per order line between $0 and current value
to show how much resistance there is to prevent the price going to $0