P.S. if you want a trader's technical perspective, you should've posted this on the Trading Discussion section instead lol.
I agree. if we want to keep more discussion about the price
the crypto market has not lost any capitalisation..
the market caps are not a measure of fiat reserves held to back any asset. its just a multiplication of a current price.
2 people can easily affect this.
heck i can make an altcoin of 1trillion coins and sell just 1 coin for $1 and create $1trillion market cap.
no one cares about market cap numbers. they are meaningless.
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there is no 'over sold' because again it has nothing to do with accumulated sales that meet some big number of sells. its just a single price multiplied.
so chill out and relax, there was no loss, there was no over selling.
the market cap stat is not a stat of value. its a empty stat of multiplication
right now there are traders that only need to buy/sell 0.01btc ($350) and can cause a shift the price by $3 which thrn multiplies the math to shift the market cap of bitcoin by $57million
yep someone can affect bitcoins market cap by $57million by only spending $350
I am not saying you are wrong in this.
But actually I care about marketcap numbers to calculate my own risk when I want to decide to buy/sell cryptocurrency.
Not because 1 trillion coins worth 1$ each coin/token, it will be 1 trillion$ in reserve. The price will drop as every coin is sold out.
I know what you said but that doesn't mean they are meaningless.
Like you said "it's multiplication". If someone wants to lower the bitcoin price by 50%, they don't have to own&sell 50% of bitcoins in circulation.
Therefore the risk of losing will be greater because of multiples.