All assets have market caps, the money contained within each asset. I think of things like the density of a market cap, meaning how hard did the person that acquired the asset work for it AND how much do they believe in the asset, what’s their conviction in the asset. This is what gives the market cap its depth, its density. Without the energy density you have a bubble. you have something that people have purchased with money they don’t care about and they don’t really care about the thing they purchased.

#Bitcoin may not have one of the largest market caps yet, but I guarantee you it has one of the densest. Many sats earned with serious blood, sweat and tears and the conviction of bitcoiners is second to none.

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I agree—how would one go about quantifying the market cap density of various assets including #bitcoin?

Hard to say, you don’t truly know how hard someone worked to acquire their sats.. and you don’t know how hard someone worked to acquire anything else. But knowing what I know about bitcoin and bitcoiners, a lot of hard earned money is locked within MANY of the sats.

Yes—difficult. Maybe some way to estimate based on volume and time at various prices, but it is just an estimate in the end.

Depth of order book on the buy side. Or buy side depth as multiple of sell side. That would tell you the appetite for buying and holding.

Spot on. Only thing I’d add is that there is a percentage of bitcoin’s market cap that is flimsy. The traders and leveraged degens. But the hodler base is second to none.

For sure, as all assets do. But man, the hodler base is energy DENSE.

Lifetime #Hodl, I foresee. #Bitcoin adoption is slow but inevitable

interesting idea… also any market cap number is misleading for the simple fact that you can never sell ALL of an mcap good at the current price. supply demand curve and so on.

I think of it in similar terms.

And I believe that Monero ($3B market cap) is even more dense than Bitcoin, which shows itself in relative stability despite low liquidity.

You think people buying monero are working harder for it than those that are buying sats? What makes you think that? Or are you speaking of conviction?

I am speaking of conviction.

Well said buddha

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What you're referring to has a quantitative measure called realized capitalization and if the same was tracked for shitcoins then bitcoin dominance would be much higher than it is.

Theres also a bit of value days destroyed sprinkled into what you're talking about. SighI, t's been so long since i cared about these things.

https://academy.glassnode.com/market/realized-capitalization

https://studio.glassnode.com/workbench/btc-value-days-destroyed-multiple

Even that metric can’t possibly track how hard someone worked to earn the money they used to purchase the asset. I know Bitcoiners putting real blood, sweat and tears into every single sat they get a hold of. It is vastly different than other assets, with the exception of perhaps first time home buyers.

High floor

Many were just early though

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This isn’t priced in

Agreed