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Preface: How big is the current asset market in the world? What proportion do Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies occupy in the entire world currency and market? It feels like a drop in the bucket, and when you understand that, you can see how naive and early it is for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. The asset ratio in the world currency market has been evolving, and the future will become more and more exciting. The author of this article is Jeff Desjardins, translated by "Lu" of the "Blue Fox Notes" community.
All the currencies and market sizes in the world are in this visual chart, which is very long:
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(The picture comes from MoneyProject, a cooperative project between the author's unit and Texas Precious Metals Corporation. Blue Fox Note: Due to some data is not real-time, there will be some discrepancies. For example, the current market value of Bitcoin is about 180 billion US dollars, and Ethereum is 200 billion It is about US$100 billion, not US$100 billion and US$28 billion as mentioned in the figure, but we can get some intuitive feelings from the macro scale.)
When we talk about the sheer size of Apple, the wealth of Warren Buffett, or the enormous amount of debt accumulated around the world, all of these sound huge, but are really just different in size.
That's why we visualize things spatially, because it gives us a better perspective on money and markets.
So how much is it?
This infographic was originally created to show the different forms of money. For example, highlight the amount of actual cash compared to broader monetary measures including savings and checking account deposits.
What exactly "money" is depends on who you ask. What about gold, bitcoin or other hard assets, are they money?
a new meaning
However, since we first published this infographic in 2015, "global currencies and markets" has taken on a different meaning to us and many others. This diagram simplifies complex currencies, assets and other financial instruments in a way that people can understand.
