Last updated: Sep 22, 2014 12:40 AM UTC Dec. 5, 2013 1:03 PM UTC
Total Market Cap: $ 5,859,151,098 Total Market Cap: $13,492,184,612
Position Name Symbol Market Cap Total Supply Total Coins: 42
320 Veilcoin VEIL $977 1578152 #42 = Junkcoin $30,971
321 Bongger BGR $880 175738298
322 Denarius DRS $831 1148800
323 KimDotCoin DOT $756 63598627
324 MastCoin MAST $662 2472788
325 TraderCoin TRDR $509 71693
326 Instant BTI $459 101298
327 MileyCyrusCoin $439 156904
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I decided to check out the entire list on coin market cap today and found the data quite depressing to put it mildly. There were only 42 coins as of December 5, 2013 with a market cap of $13,492,184,612. There are 500 coins listed today with a market cap of $5,859,151,098. Eight of those coins (#320 t0 #327) has a market cap of less tha $1,000. Many more have close to zero value.
What do you think is happening? Does our industry has a structural problem built upon poor foudations? Perhaps many created a currency without knowing the basic functions of money. Is speculative trading alone be enough for a coin to survive?
Here are the figures from that time frame.
http://web.archive.org/web/20131205190544/http://coinmarketcap.com/
Interesting facts on these figures:
1. Bitcoin and Litecoin accounted for 99.78% of the drop in market value during that time period: $13,455,943,567 - 5,486,893,782
2. Combined, Bitcoin and Litecoin lost 57% of their value
3. The marketcap for all other coins combined was: on Dec. 5 / 13 - $434,299,605 and on Sept. 22 / 14 - $417,236,505
4. All other coins combined lost only 4% of their value, but (and it's a huge but), there was 458 coins added to share that small piece of the pie.
That is pretty interesting. I think that was the peak of the bitcoin market.