Bitcoin Market Dominance Is Actually Over 75%: Ex Google Exec

Bitcoin Market Dominance Is Actually Over 75%: Ex Google Exec
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2019-8-6 13:00

Bitcoin in fact accounts for a much larger proportion of the overall cryptocurrency market, a former Google and Facebook executive has claimed.

Bitcoin Market Dominance Has Long Been over 60%

Presenting new figures on social media August 6, Avichal Garg, who now runs cryptocurrency asset management firm Electric Capital, said standard methods for measuring Bitcoin’s dominance were flawed. 

Resources which compute market cap, specifically CoinMarketCap, draw on thousands of cryptocurrencies, including those with no liquidity at all. This, he argues, makes them irrelevant to calculations and allows them to dilute Bitcoin’s true presence.

“True BTC market share is probably 75%+ and has likely been 60%+ for a long time,” he wrote. 

Coinmarketcap incorrectly calculates dominance using alts that have 0 liquidity. Most (though (definitely) not all!) projects are worth 0, which would put BTC dominance at 75%+

Bitcoin’s market cap currently circles $317 billion after a several-day bull run took the largest cryptocurrency over $12,000 once more. 

Dominance for Bitcoin, according to CoinMarketCap, is 68.5%, the highest the percentage has been since April 2017. 

While altcoins remain factored in, the landscape this year overwhelmingly favors Bitcoin investors, with multiple analysts warning that altcoin markets will no longer challenge Bitcoin in a meaningful way. 

BTC Realized Market Cap Hits New All-Time High

Garg’s calculations surface several weeks after another alternative metric for gauging market cap hit an all-time high of its own. 

As Bitcoinist reported, so-called ‘realized market cap’ reached a record $93 billion last month, and has since continued to fresh highs – currently at $97.8 billion. 

Realized market cap refers to the price at which a bitcoin last traded, along with how many coins moved in that trade. 

By multiplying those two values it generates a number which more accurately judges Bitcoin’s health, analysis from industry media resource Longhash said. 

Market cap is just one aspect of the Bitcoin network that been consistently breaking records in the 2019 bull market. As Bitcoinist noted, hashrate, difficulty, volume and more are all at highs which were unthinkable at the beginning of the year. 

Even temporary bearish sentiment sparked by US regulatory scrutiny failed to last, with BTC/USD bouncing back by over $2000 in a matter of days since the start of the weekend.

Trade war worries, coupled with wider economic uncertainty, fuelled the action which also resulted in improved performance for safe haven assets such as gold.

 

What do you think about Bitcoin’s market cap? Let us know in the comments below!

Images via Shutterstock, Longhash

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