or most of us, $5 billion might already seem like a fairly huge—and abstract—amount of money. But that number, which happens to be roughly the value of all the Bitcoins in the world today, is a tiny fraction of other markets.
A recent chart from The Money Project attempts to visualize all of the money in the world, from Bitcoin to the mind-bogglingly massive derivatives market, and compares them by size. Each small square on the chart represents $100 billion.
"I think the most interesting aspect of this visualization is the exponential difference in size between these different markets," says Jeff Desjardins, president of Visual Capitalist, which produces the Money Project. "It really helps to put things into perspective."
"The size of the whole Bitcoin market ($5 billion) is a blip on the radar compared to the gold market, which is worth 1560 times as much—at $7.8 trillion," he says. "Yet, the gold market is insignificant when compared to total global debt, which is equal to $199 trillion."
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3055070/visualizing/all-the-money-in-the-world-in-a-single-chart
