Tuesday, December 1, 2020

A Little Perspective on Bitcoin

As a follow-on to the Bitcoin posting of November 24, I thought it would be helpful, for reference sake, to see a visual of the total amount of US Dollars in circulation (as measured by M2) v. the global total amount of mined/above ground Gold v. the total amount of mined Bitcoin v. the total economic output of the US in 2019 (GDP) v. the total market capitalization (total shares X share price) for the top 5 tech stocks (Apple + Microsoft + Amazon + Alphabet/Google + Facebook)



Notes:

 

  • Total US Dollars in circulation (M2) is from the St. Louis Federal Reserve, October 2020
  • Total mined Gold is estimated to be 200,000 metric tons @ $1800/oz
  • Total mined Bitcoin is 18,557,000 @ $17,686/btc
  • 2019 GDP is from the Federal Reserve
  • The combined value of the top 5 tech stocks are based on November 2020 share prices and shares outstanding

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