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by duskwuff 2573 days ago
> "worth" is a bit of an illusion

The "market cap" of a currency is kind of a weird concept to begin with. It's based on the presumption that you could buy every single unit of the currency at the current market price, and that the currency would still even have meaning afterwards. It's a gross approximation at best for a stock; for a currency, it's absurd, and even more so for one with a market as shallow as a cryptocurrency.