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Don't forget that when you account for inflation, that 6.7 trillion is a lot larger in today's dollars, so the big circle should be even bigger!

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1 hour ago, Niall said:

Don't forget that when you include inflation, that 6.7 trillion is a lot larger in today's dollars, so the bigger circle should be alot bigger! 

True;  (TBH I'm not sure if they already accounted for that or not)

Edit:  Actually I think you're right - the fine print says it was the stock value measured back then.   Wow. 

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Noob here. So...does crypto have to follow the same pattern? Is it a financial/market rule I don't understand? 

Will crypto definitely hit a bubble when it gets that high, or...are there other outcomes? 

Thanks :) I'm still getting my bearings in this. The closest I've come to investment strategies so far is dropping money in a 401K Mutual Fund by guessing what looks good. This is a bit overwhelming at first. 

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It's a nice comparison, but I don't think it's visually accurate.

6.7 trillion is 55.83 times larger than 120 billion.

If I recall correctly, human eyesight is logarithmic, meaning an object has to be 10 times as close to you to appear twice as large. In this instance of the circles above, the size of the circle is given by its area, which means you should be able to fit exactly 55.83 of the little circles to take up the same amount of area used by the area of the dot-com bubble circle.  Just by glancing at the images, it's obvious that you can fit a lot more than 55.83 little circles into the large circle, so you either need to make the little circle larger or make the larger circle smaller so that there is an accurate visual representation.

It would be much easier to see this representation using a little square for the crypto marketcap and one large square for the dot-com cap with the larger square using lines that subdivide it into dot-com squares so you can count the actual number of little squares that fit into the area of the large square (dot-com bubble) to verify accurate size comparison.

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This is a nice viral and everything but to me it seems to compare apples to oranges. The NASDAQ circle includes all stocks, even companies like Berkshire Hathaway that didn't participate in the dotcom bubble but make significant area of that circle. Should you clear it to only dotcom companies, the circle would be smaller. I got not credible data to back this up, but should be around $1.5 trillion. That's still a decent difference, however I still don't see point of that comparison. Proof that cryptocurrencies are not in a bubble? Not really. Or will the crypto market grow 12 times before it bursts? I'd love to experience that but I don't see it real...

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8 hours ago, inative said:

This is a nice viral and everything but to me it seems to compare apples to oranges. The NASDAQ circle includes all stocks, even companies like Berkshire Hathaway that didn't participate in the dotcom bubble but make significant area of that circle. Should you clear it to only dotcom companies, the circle would be smaller. I got not credible data to back this up, but should be around $1.5 trillion. That's still a decent difference, however I still don't see point of that comparison. Proof that cryptocurrencies are not in a bubble? Not really. Or will the crypto market grow 12 times before it bursts? I'd love to experience that but I don't see it real...

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"The stock market downturn of 2002 caused the loss of $5 trillion in the market value of companies from March 2000 to October 2002.[27] "

Source: Gaither, Chris; Chmielewski, Dawn C. (July 16, 2006). "Fears of Dot-Com Crash, Version 2.0". Los Angeles Times.

Referenced by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#cite_note-27

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On 10/9/2017 at 2:32 AM, enrique11 said:

It's a nice comparison, but I don't think it's visually accurate.

6.7 trillion is 55.83 times larger than 120 billion.

If I recall correctly, human eyesight is logarithmic, meaning an object has to be 10 times as close to you to appear twice as large. In this instance of the circles above, the size of the circle is given by its area, which means you should be able to fit exactly 55.83 of the little circles to take up the same amount of area used by the area of the dot-com bubble circle.  Just by glancing at the images, it's obvious that you can fit a lot more than 55.83 little circles into the large circle, so you either need to make the little circle larger or make the larger circle smaller so that there is an accurate visual representation.

It would be much easier to see this representation using a little square for the crypto marketcap and one large square for the dot-com cap with the larger square using lines that subdivide it into dot-com squares so you can count the actual number of little squares that fit into the area of the large square (dot-com bubble) to verify accurate size comparison.

This is my post of the week! Wow!

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I see the value of the dotcom-bubble before it popped but does anyone know what the current value of "dotcom" is today?

Can that even be calculated? Nearly everything is online today. 

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something to note is that the dotcom bubble was mostly confined to north america, but had knock-on global effects

crypto is a global phenomenon and there are fewer barriers to entry for the most part

this is both exciting and concerning/scary -- be careful out there folks -- 99% of these coins are blatant scams and pyramid schemes

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