That’s pretty compact, right? In this image created by our graphic designer, each bloc has 500 coins in height. For each of the three complete blocs, there are 100 coins in length and another 100 in width. Thus, a complete bloc has a total of 5 million coins. Here is the same visualization from another angle:
If Bitcoin looked like a penny, then all of its market cap would be about a fifth of this:
This is the “Penny Harvest Field,” an exhibition at Rockefeller Center, featuring an estimated 100 million pennies worth $1 million. You can watch it from different angles here. How Would BTC Compare to Gold and USD? Bitcoin is often referred to as digital gold for its capability to store value. But how much space would you need for all the gold mined in history? Last year, the World Gold Council estimated that all the gold ever mined weighed 190,040 tons, though other estimates may vary by up to 20%. Here is an older image of all of the world’s mined gold when it was estimated to be at 166,500 tons. The cube with the dimensions of 20.5 meters would take much more space than the Bitcoins from our visualization:
Nevertheless, if it were all melted, it would fit within an Olympic Swimming Pool. Here are other interesting gold visualizations. As for the US dollars, if you were to keep all them in cash, you’d need even more room. Here is the visualization of one trillion USD:
It’s worth mentioning that those pallets are double-stacked and are made of $100 bills. To understand how much space you would need, you should know that the M0 money supply indicator, which includes all the physical dollars, is currently just below $3.5 trillion. What do you think about our Bitcoin visualization? Share your thoughts in the comments section!
Images via Shutterstock, Bitcoinist: Caplevatchi Igor, AliExpress, Travelvista.net, Demonocracy.info, Pagetutor.com
source: https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-market-cap-look-like-in-3d/
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