The current bitcoin market cap is small enough that Apple could buy every single coin in existence, twice.
Apple announced their earnings a few days ago and became the first trillion dollar company in US history.
They are not the first company ever to have a trillion dollar valuation as PetroChina reached that milestone back in late 2007 when it launched on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
However, due to a collapse in oil prices and a global recession, it lost more 75% of its value over the coming year.
It is said to be the largest destruction of share holder wealth in world history.
Apple, however, will likely not repeat that same price action.
Apple could buy every bitcoin in existence, with cash.
On Apple's earnings release, they announced that they now have $244 billion in cash on their balance sheet.
(Which is actually a drop from the $269 billion they had previously)
Currently bitcoin is sporting a market cap of $120 billion, which means, hypothetically, Apple could buy every bitcoin in existence two times over with its giant $244 billion cash hoard.
Yes yes I know, Apple couldn't really buy every coin as prices would start running up as they started to buy and it would likely cost much much more in order to actually buy every single coin.
Though, one must also consider some coins are lost forever, which means it would take less money to buy all the tradeable bitcoins currently than the market cap might indicate.
Either way it is still a fun idea to throw out.
(Source: https://coinmarketcap.com/)
But wait, there's more...
What's more, Apple could actually buy just about every coin of every cryptocurrency listed on coinmarketcap right now.
Um, what?
Yes, the current market cap of all 1769 coins listed on coinmarketcap is roughly $250 billion.
With Apple's $244 billion cash hoard, they could almost buy every single coin of every single currency listed on coinmarketcap.
Which means, in theory, Apple could buy the entire cryptocurrency industry, with cash!
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Stay informed my friends.
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You and me both!
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Interesting speculation, but still on quite thin ice as we all know CoinMarketCap until recently had quite strict limitations on listed coins, so it barely contains small fraction of available cryptocurrencies...
It is true that exchange rate of individual cryptocurrencies would sky rocket if someone would try to buy large amount of coins in short period of time, but it could also mean that other "sleeping" buyers would try to block the trade by creating more orders just above the price the large buyer is prepared to pay.
In the end the takeover could fail due to too many new investors entering the market and repeatedly increasing the exchange rate until the exchange would crash or freeze under stress. We all know the Slashdot effect...
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Of all the cryptocurrencies on exchanges, I believe coinmarketcap has just about all of them, no?
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Like I said CMC didn't previously accept cryptocurrencies with relatively low trading volume. After their policy change, cryptocurrency developers have to explicitly ask CMC to review their coin before it is added to CMC.
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Can't buy my btc not for sale lol they can pay $1million for 1 off me lol
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I imagine you are not the only one that would say something similar.
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Gives the market a bit of perspective. Seems that maybe we are very far from a bubble, long way to go before it is over bought.
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Yes that is certainly true. We just need to get out of this bearish pattern first though.
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Its an informative one...👍👍👍
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lolz come to think of it it is kind of unbelievable ;)
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Yea it really puts into perspective how small this asset class really is.
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this is ABSURD
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One company could buy the entire asset class... that is absurd.
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One company could
Buy the entire asset
Class... that is absurd.
- jrcornel
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
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Yeah seriously, you can say that again... or I guess we could leave that for the haikubot lol
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Haha I am not even sure what a haiku is. I seem to say them quite a lot I guess.
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Hahah haiku is a japanese three-lined poem that goes by lined syllable count.. pretty sure it goes 5-7-5
if you like to keep it short and sweet, then yeah haiku bot will keep finding you lol
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Not only bitcoin and cryptos but they can also buy some of the moat valuable companies in the world like JP Morgan or how about another Tech like Tesla. They will soon begin to do so as they innovation has been lackluster lately.
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Once they figure out how they can use that money without paying huge taxes on it, I believe you are right.
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Jeff Bezos could buy half of it, but of course neither Apple nor Jeff would have to buy all of it to manipulate the price, anyone with a few hundred million can do that, look at the effect from the Mt Gox sell offs.
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Yep, my hope is that they manipulate it up at some point as well.
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Yep, my hope is that
They manipulate it up
At some point as well.
- jrcornel
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
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Hopefully before STEEM drops under a dollar!
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I hear you. The lack of support for steem has been a bit troubling.
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if it does drop under a dollar I will buy some, hopefully others feel the same.
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Such a big number that is but apple would not do that forever but exceptions do happens hahah
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I guess soon it will be 10 trillion and btc will be 2 trillion
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That would be nice. Novogratz mentioned $20 trillion for the entire crypto asset class as the top of the bubble in his opinion.
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WTF!!!!.....So true
But insanely amazing too
Apple got a huge advantage over all tech as it is now
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Pretty tough to bet against them when they are only trading at 18X earnings. Whatever they don't do right now, they can buy their way into.
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I could return the upvote in the post
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Cool.
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habe ich auch schon dran gedacht
das große Spieler zu viel Einfluß haben
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They can't buy the two that I lost the keys for like five years ago.
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Don't worry, I know you are not the only one in this boat.
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Wow now this is CRAZY! I had never even thought about it like this at all, it tells me two things:
Look elsewhere for investments, don’t just stick to volatile cryptos to hold long term (like I am doing)
There is potentially monstrous growth for the crypto market! Keep on growin baby!
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Yes, it is always good to diversify.
The crypto universe is still very small in the grand scheme of things.
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Or, Apple could launch their own cryptocurrency and have Jony Ive design the hardware wallet...
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There is that as well.
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bitcoin is an unlimited kind of money, Apple can't buy the whole of bitcoin, Bitcoin is worth way more than that.
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Not sure what you are saying here. The entire bitcoin market cap is worth $120 billion, Apple has $244 billion cash on hand. Not only could they buy every bitcoin, but they could buy it two times over.
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Hey.....your post was too much informative. I was really glad too know this and you have shared good ideas. So keep sharing these information on steem it.
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