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Re: Crypto marketcap is now more than 13% of cash in circulation
by
magneto
on 03/12/2017, 06:46:17 UTC
Cryptocurrencies marketcaps combined are now around 330 Billion USD, which is roughly 7.5% of cash in circulation in Euro and Dollars combined (around 2500 Bn USD)

Dollar cash in circulation was 1154 Bn USD in 2016:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircvalue.htm

Euro cash circulation was 1143 Bn EUR in September 2017:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/banknotes+coins/circulation/html/index.en.html

Clearly, cryptocurrencies usage, apart from pure speculation, is way less than 13% of cash. Isn't it the sign that we are in a giant bubble?

As pooya said, you have around half of the entire market cap being made up of mostly shitcoins. Of course there are gems of projects out there but there is pretty much nothing that can compete with bitcoin when it comes to actual merchant acceptance.

Is it a bubble? Short term i'd say yes but in the lnog term you'll realise that these figures are actually quite cheap.

Just because people aren't using BTC now as much, doesn't mean they won't in future. The fact that the price has been pumped means that people realise the potential of this.