Genuine question. Assume for a moment that we are working towards Bitcoin becoming a sigle, global currency, to the exclusion of all else. How then do we factor in the value of derivatives? Current estimates put the value of the derivative market at somewhere between $600 trillion and $1.2 quadrillion.
that is the whole point of the argument. what you call "value" is just market cap which is not even a defined characteristic for a currency, it is meaningful for a company in stocks market not a currency in circulation. not to mention that most of these "derivatives" are not really in circulation. you can literary create market cap out of nothing.
Isn't market cap the circulation number times the confirmed price the highest one unit has sold for? So with Bitcoin, if someone a few years ago in a very tight communist country bought a Bitcoin for say $1 million then the market cap would be at $21 trillion.
And $90 trillion is probably not including the national debt they have (and a lot of other countries have).
Which is about $21 trillion itself.