I wonder if there is any stats for the money transferred through Omni layer (tokens running on bitcoin network) such as shitcoins like Tether (USDT). After all they've existed for many years, even before the shittoken hype began on centralized platforms.
never use market cap as a number of anything. its a meaningless number
Market capitalization is meaningless when used for altcoins for a lot of reasons, but for bitcoin what is commonly and wrongly referred to as Market Cap is actually money supply which is a very good characteristic to look at, specially since bitcoin is a currency and should be compared to other currencies. When we do such a comparison we have to convert them all to one currency, in which case we multiply the supply with price (aka compute market cap of that currency).
I agree that marketcap is not perfect, but it is the best thing we have.
its actually not the best thing we have
a better metric is the utxo realised value.
basically it looks at all the utxo's (unspent btc) and checks the price of them on the date they EACH moved. which means each coin has its own price that is calculated from when the coin was received. and so thats the value someone paid for it.
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market cap is meaningless because i can make a crap coin with a 1trillion coin premine. get it listed on an exchange and sell 0.01 for $0.50 an instantly create a coin with a $50 trillion market cap.
yet if i wanted to get a utxo realised value, id have to sell all the coins and calculate the total of the price they were moved at.
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take for instance other easy metrics to measure
like did you know if you take the coins as they are mined and give them an min, average and max value of that year. you can see that just the minting of coins created a baseline value of:
min total $18,518,589,967.50
avg total $34,424,101,251.86
max total $68,483,090,513.25
and the utxo realised total (realised capitalisation) is ~$455 billion
these numbers cant be faked as it require actual movements creation and prices of those movements/creations. OVER TIME