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bitcoin reaches a new milestone when its market capitalization settled at $1.25 trillion this week this height has made so many analysts including myself to compare the giant of cryptocurrency (bitcoin), to Google the king of search engines and video streaming in market capitalization.

Bitcoin market capitalization as of the time of this writing is $1.14 trillion.

Google’s market capitalization is $1.5 trillion.

With the current surge in the bitcoin market, I can authoritatively say that Bitcoin is on its way to becoming the Google of cryptocurrency, and shortly bitcoin will surpass Google in market capitalization.

What is your opinion about this?

Bitcoin surpassing Google's market cap and other popular companies or can be said as the top and largest companies in the world are inevitable.

And the other altcoins can be said as those companies that are under google or near behind its market cap?

I do not have other things to compare bitcoin with than gold. Gold with a marketcap of over $11 trillion, this is the greatest asset of all time. Because bitcoin is still at its early stage, but some people will think it is not. It will not be a surprise when bitcoin might surpass gold in market capitalization. Never mind me not comparing bitcoin with google because as time goes on, google will be nothing if compared with bitcoin. You can try to read the latest post by fillippone about how the future still seem more positive for people that are just buying bitcoin now at this time.

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Please, let it be bitcoin vs gold, not google.

Why comparing bitcoin to google? Whether by price, market cap,  or etc. Can't see no %reason comparing them.

These companies with large market cap will be nothing when time goes if compared to bitcoin.

Bitcoin will pass Google’s marketcap within 3-6 months, no problem. I’m more interested as to when it surpasses Amazon’s.

I think Bitcoin will surpass these giant markets when the price of BTC reached another ATH this year or the next one. whichever it is when the price goes sky-rocket again, Bitcoin will earn another record and popularity to the people and it will lead to some mass adoptions. I think one of the reasons why the OP compared the market value of Bitcoin to Google is they are close in value to each other.

i guess, just for the sake of comparison purposes. bitcoin compared to popular markets. we will see more of this comparison thing between bitcoin and top companies. people are interested seeing their BTC compared to long-running and known companies. gives inspiration to some users who want to hodl their BTCs.  ;)
an attractive info also for newcomers. as btc market is relatively young as compared to these companies, we can see how btc is really growing fast throughout these years.

The Google of crypto? What's that even supposed to mean? All I know is that Google went from "Don't be evil" to the most evil search engine and corporation collecting all sorts of possible information on you, so if that's what Bitcoin turns into then no thanks, lol.

Comparing Bitcoin to Google is a big nonsense I believe. Like honestly, they're two completely different things.

This is what I'm thinking whenever I see a comparison thread here for a non related company with different market.

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I don't know if crypto project can be compared to a real company stocks considering the volatility of crypto. Surely crypto project can surpass any company even Amazon once whale pump a highly volatile coin without any premine/pre allocated coin to the team.

Yea, doesn't make sense for Google to be compared to Bitcoin though, two very distinct, a search engine company and a commodity, market valuation can also be a bit misleading specially in crypto currency. If there will be something for bitcoin to be compared of, it will be gold.

Thanks OP, it hadn't occurred to me to take a look at Google's market capitalization.
Certainly, bitcoin is doing its part very well demonstrating that things can be done with decentralization. As a pioneer bitcoin has a great challenge to succeed in addition to being a technology that innovated and inspired others to continue on its path.
Definitely, we are in front of two great giants, we only have to support bitcoin so that it is used for the good of humanity there is still much to do.

nothing impossible will happen and it is possible because indeed the market cap of bitcoin continues to increase, a sign of increasing trust in bitcoin. After the effect of @elonmusk with its teslanya, it is possible to increase the confidence of large companies investing their funds in bitcoin.

In fact, it is possible that all this time companies or investors who play in stocks have noticed that crypto is very attractive to be used as an alternative as a long and short term investment. as we know the current price of coin in crypto, many have reached ATH, if bitcoin is clearly more than that.

So it is natural that there is a discourse that bitcoin will be able to surpass Google and even other big companies is something that can and may be, remember that the movement of bitcoin is still long, even until the end of the year. the possibility of a very fantastic change in price could happen.

Crypto's capitalization will soon surpass capitalization of Google, Microsoft and even Apple to climb top 2. Gold market capitalization is the largest of over 11 trillion dollars, and I'm just looking forward to the capital of the capital Bitcoin crosses the gold market.

Yes ofcourse bitcoin will easily pass the Google market capitalization. I am seeing bitcoin to be at the number two spot in marketcap after the Gold. In order to overcome the marketcap of gold, bitcoin needs to be adopted as a global currency.

Bitcoin is a currency and Google is a search engine, why should compare each other? Both are totally different technically and theoretically. Only market cap? So here is the current market cap.


We can see Bitcoin reach 1 Trillion within a short time if you compare it with previous achievers. Bitcoin isn't so far to surpass Google on capitalization. Apple took 42 years to achieve a 1 Trillion market cap, but I think Bitcoin will be in the Top position within 42 years since it has crossed 1 Trillion within 12 years.

Bitcoin Enthusiasts waiting for bitcoin to surpass the marketcap of Gold, not Google. ;D But wait there is a sudden dump after I went to sleep on the whole crypto market so it may take a little wait to recover from the correction then surpass the Google.

This is a pretty meaningless comparison. Google is a technology company. Bitcoin is not a "company" and its "marketcap" defines little about it.

Even if it surpasses Google, there are no guarantees that it will continue to be above it. Nor that it has generated any sort of revenue or products comparable to a company like Google or Amazon. Bitcoin is a separate market in itself so comparing it with other corporate giants will not tell us anything meaningful about it.

The meaningful criteria in terms of Bitcoin are, How many transactions are happening with it? How much of it has been acquired by individuals or corporations to utilize its SoV feature? What is it contributing towards financial inclusion for people around the world?

Comparisons like these are well-intentioned but misguided. Bitcoin doesn't really need that kind of shilling, does it?

Bitcoin managed a $1 trillion market cap because early miners and early adopters accelerated its growth. Thanks to them believing in Bitcoin 12 years ago it became a giant today.

I think Bitcoin will surpass these giant markets when the price of BTC reached another ATH this year or the next one. whichever it is when the price goes sky-rocket again, Bitcoin will earn another record and popularity to the people and it will lead to some mass adoptions. I think one of the reasons why the OP compared the market value of Bitcoin to Google is they are close in value to each other.btc price 62k.....

bitcoin reaches a new milestone when its market capitalization settled at $1.25 trillion this week this height has made so many analysts including myself to compare the giant of cryptocurrency (bitcoin), to Google the king of search engines and video streaming in market capitalization.

Bitcoin market capitalization as of the time of this writing is $1.14 trillion.

Google’s market capitalization is $1.5 trillion.

With the current surge in the bitcoin market, I can authoritatively say that Bitcoin is on its way to becoming the Google of cryptocurrency, and shortly bitcoin will surpass Google in market capitalization.

I agree with what you say but not so much agree with the adjective you use, I guess it's a way of saying you are sure.

If you look: https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap/

You will see that before Google the Bitcoin has to supass silver, after Google to Amazon, etc. I am more interested about when it surpasses gold, which will make Bitcoin the undisputed No. 1 asset.

Yeah. The only thing you can make a comparison with bitcoin is the gold. They might be distinctively different in there nature but has similar functions. Gold served as a currency at a time and now, its an asset and a save of worth. This is where bitcoin stands, as a currency for the future and others see it as a save of worth which is the reason why, most people don't like to spend bitcoin due to its volatile nature. These are places of comparison not with Google and a marketcap what so ever because definitely, should market cap be used as a base, we might as well compare bitcoin with every other company or investment.
Well, bitcoin is far from attaining its worth as it could be said to be in its early days but in time, it would surpass most of the expectations on it.

The bitcoin market cap will increase rapidly with the many positive trends at this time. it's a bit irrelevant when comparing Google with bitcoin, imo. But yes, knowing that bitcoin market cap is almost 3 times that of Visa is something in itself that we can be proud of as supporters of bitcoin and crypto. It might be a little difficult to reach the gold market cap, but I believe when we enter the mass adoption stage of crypto and blockchain, the bitcoin market cap will reach the current gold market cap level

One problem might arise is the fact that market cap can't stay as it is for a long long time. That value might dwindle in the long run but for the mean time it doesn't show it's weakness and it is steadily rising as of now. So yeah we might consider Bitcoin as GOOGLE of cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin uses the benefits of being the first. So no matter its market capitalization, Bitcoin is "Google" in the crypto world.

Bitcoin vs Google doesn't seem like a good comparison at all considering both entities offers completely different use cases. A more suitable asset class that fits the comparison against Bitcoin is gold since it's also an asset that could be bought or sold in order for it to be invested in just like Bitcoin. Since we have a worthy competitor to BTC, Its worth noting that given the current difference in market caps between both assets, Bitcoin still has a lot of catching up to do in the next couple of years. Whether that would be during this bull run or the next, we don't know.

I'm confused comparing these two big companies. obviously these are very different and contradictory and I am not able to compare the two because there is no clear correlation when comparing the two.
for me the two can not be compared if the price problem of these two companies is very clear large companies but can not be compared with each other.
I can better compare like google with youtube/amazon and bitcoin with gold.

Let me use this article to share another article which was written back in 2020 where the guy said how google and other big companies need to kill BTC and that too fast !

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/04/19/google-facebook-and-apple-need-to-kill-bitcoin-to-survive/ (https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/04/19/google-facebook-and-apple-need-to-kill-bitcoin-to-survive/)

I do believe articles like this and at the same time the current figures does show us how the current trend is changing across the globe.

It is indeed wrong to compare one centralized body with another decentralized Currency but at the same time the figures speaks for itself.

- I wonder how much BTC is google holding.

Bitcoins is something which is a very essential part of many big companies, at the same time the current down trend is a perfect opportunity for other companies who did miss the opportunity to invest in BTC.

This Comparison might be a simple key to show people who know less about bitcoins the benefits of this crypto and how over the years it had grown from 0.0008$ to around 60,000$!! Even more ! This is astounding and people do have to understand that google started at around 85$ per share and now it's around 2282$ if the figures on google are correct so you can very clearly see who is the winner here even if the market capitalization is different.

Bitcoin should be compare to other companies and not such as Google which can't be compare to such asset like bitcoin. The right comparison we should be looking at in terms of market capitalization should be Gold versus Bitcoin. These two asset match, and can compete with one another. The truth is, bitcoin will surely surpasses the Gold market capitalization within some period of time IMO becasue of the institutional investor that are currently flowing into the system.

seeing this topic make me was reminded of the many accounts on Twitter that compare Bitcoin's market capitalization with national savings funds or value from large companies other than google.  but yeah Bitcoin has made new history and if i'm not mistaken, Bitcoin continue made new history several times since the beginning of this year.

Bitcoin will continue to create new history and nothing will stop that.

I don't think its a good comparison, Because bitcoin has no CEO, no HR dept, has no operation costs, no employees.  and such..no inherent search engine.

To compare something like bitcoin to a traditional company.   I am aware that there are equivalents between the two. but they serve dif purposes and do no compete against each other.

Microsoft vs Google is worthy of comparing they function in the same sphere even if they have different product

Bitcoins are earned by people in the network called "miners", who solve deliberately complicated equations using brute force processing power, under the so-called "proof of work" protocol.

The protocol is designed to maintain network integrity, ensuring a stable supply of the currency by making the calculations more difficult when many people are mining, and easier when few miners are at work.

The system is designed so that around every 10 minutes, the network awards some bitcoin to those who have successfully cracked the puzzle.

The second most used cryptocurrency, ethereum, is considering moving from the proof-of-work protocol to a less energy-intensive system that would avoid some of the energy-guzzling processes. But bitcoin would face huge difficulties in adopting such ...

You are right, Bitcoin and gold are in the same class, as investment and commodity. But the comparison is in terms of market capitalization and popularity. It will take bitcoin some years before we can compare it to gold as at now gold market capitalization is $11.27 trillion this is way too much to be compared to bitcoin, which $1.25.

Wait and see and it will surely surpass that 1.5 trillion market cap of Google.
Soon another thread will ask "Bitcoin vs Apple" through market cap as well.
In the end, we can't compare the two just by what is better through market cap.

If bitcoin will surpass Google's market capitalization, then what? I mean i dont think we can compare google into bitcoin, and claiming it as Google's cryptocurrency isnt fair. They have different platforms and system, thus obviously have different market compositions.

Bitcoin can surpass Google my market capitalization, but not in the nearest future. If I calculated it right, the price would have to be around $80k (a little more than that, actually) per BTC in order to surpass Google. But even when this happens, it would still mean little. Google is used by billions of people, whereas Bitcoin is only used by a few hundred million people. We definitely need more adoption to make Bitcoin reasonably comparable with Google, and marketcap is just one of the markers to take into account.

I see. People seems to be doing comparison between Bitcoin and other different companies market cap to see which makes it to be more powerful among the two and maybe to convince themselves how great Bitcoin is to be compared to other existing assets and companies around. I do not exactly know why there is always comparison happening when the fact that they are two different existing bodies and that it seems they are more likely have nothing to do with each other except for the market cap that people are always checking to see how much greater heights Bitcoin have already attained as time goes by.

If you see that the comparison is actually not appropriate, Google should be more suitable than a comparable company, not crypto, which is not a company. maybe this comparison can be improved and can be used as a thread in the future

It good to feel like compare Bitcoin with Google since they are both kings in the setting they operate but still comparing them don't seem right to me because they offer absolutely different services and potential. However, I believe Bitcoin capital have surpassed Google because the OTC trading are not included

Bitcoin and Google are the two most viral things in the world today.  Although the viral nature of Bitcoin is a little less, it is difficult to find people who do not know about Google from birth to death.  I believe Google will be included in every aspect of our lives in the future.  For example, Bitcoin is being incorporated into the veins and blood of human life.