Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization

[Annalise24]

It is estimated that that the Cryptocurrency market capitalization went down to $200 billion from $800 billion that it was as at January 2018.
I believed it was due to the bearish market .
What I do not understand is while there is continuous growth of Cryptocurrency, people are picking interest and coming into the cryptosphere and yet the market capitalization is still not moving upwards.
What could be the challenge here?

[coco23]

You should not misinterpret the concept of the "market capitalization". This is simply the number of current price x number of coins for a given coin and it does not represent any "true value" or "money in the market".

Prices in the crypto world are mainly driven by speculation, there is no true value for 99% of the coins. (Maybe some stablecoins or share-like tokens are backed by something)
And because of that the "market capitalization" can take almost any value. Much lower ones in a continuing bear market but also much higher ones if the bull is coming back.

[andrejka]

It is estimated that that the Cryptocurrency market capitalization went down to $200 billion from $800 billion that it was as at January 2018.
I believed it was due to the bearish market .
What I do not understand is while there is continuous growth of Cryptocurrency, people are picking interest and coming into the cryptosphere and yet the market capitalization is still not moving upwards.
What could be the challenge here?

I think the main "challenge" is market cycles not less not more. We all know that after a great growth always comes significant drop as a correction. And vice versa. So now after a long decrease of bearish market it is ready for the pump again. And we can see this by the increased volume of trade. It indicates that the start of growth is so close that we should be ready for it each and every moment. I think that this year we will witness some great pumps following by the strong bull run in 2020.

[Msworld83]

The market capital is the amount of all coin funds in general while every coin in the cryptocurrency market capital has its own share base on the number of the coin and the current price which change every seconds base on the demand and supply rate.

Concerning the drop in the amount is base on the current market which is bearish in nature as every coin reached high level and now in correction mode which has to drop in price and in the process also gaining momentum to move higher to what it was before when the bull season return which will also gives cryptocurrency market capital a higher amount to that of $800b you mentioned and that is certain in near future.

[bttmember]

If we recall the last bull season we saw staggering growth of market volume from 80 billion to over 800 billion in few months and i think the next bull season will not be much different as i assume we will go from 200 billion volume to 2000 billion volume and more  in next bull run if the market history repeats and exponential bulls keep moving the market.

[geminiboy]

Our biggest challenge is to save the coins that we have until the market rises, there is still a lot of sales panic in every market so I think many investors avoid large purchases, market volumes improve but not yet fully trusted, history may be repeated but everyone still doubts

[Milamol]

You should not misinterpret the concept of the "market capitalization". This is simply the number of current price x number of coins for a given coin and it does not represent any "true value" or "money in the market".

Prices in the crypto world are mainly driven by speculation, there is no true value for 99% of the coins. (Maybe some stablecoins or share-like tokens are backed by something)
And because of that the "market capitalization" can take almost any value. Much lower ones in a continuing bear market but also much higher ones if the bull is coming back.

In the case of a bull market, it is overbought (bubble), and bearish is oversold. I think this is due to the low liquidity of the market. Someday the market will become more liquid and less volatile, and prices on average will be closer to the fundamental ones. Thus, there will be no topics like this.

[trade2winnn]

The capitalization of the crypto-currency market is at the bottom,and for a long time,imagine that the market was already 860 billion dollars,and now only about 130 billion, plus or minus 10 billion, so of course everyone is waiting for the capitalization to break into the old figure and even become more, all this is waiting

[HODL2090]

Firstly, the market capitalization should not concern you much as an investor, it is not a relevant factor and just a way of aggregating the total amount in circulation in fiat currencies.
In smaller currencies it can be easily blown up by a few transactions.
Market cap is the product of the tradng volume and the price

[10BTCaDay]

So many transactions occur on the OTC market and we do not know the real capitalization of the cryptocurrency market. These are the numbers that show us - not real.

[blockman]

It is estimated that that the Cryptocurrency market capitalization went down to $200 billion from $800 billion that it was as at January 2018.
I believed it was due to the bearish market .

Yes it was due to the bearish market and the total market cap now is just $139-M.

What I do not understand is while there is continuous growth of Cryptocurrency, people are picking interest and coming into the cryptosphere and yet the market capitalization is still not moving upwards.
What could be the challenge here?

The challenge here is on how long you're willing to wait until the next bull run triggers. Whales can't let an opportunity pass if there's a big money involve on it. With each of their trades, it costs and makes them a lot of money so that's why when the market moves up a bit, there will be a following dump.

[mrdeposit]

Market cap is the sum of all prices and cap will increase when prices bloom. Most people can invest money, investors may increase. But, if there is no increase in price, then those who leave, are as high as newcomers.

[dabenko]

Even if we have more people coming and investing in cryptocurrency, which in my opinion is not yet enough, inasmuch as the prices of coins are plummeting, the marketcap will surely plunge.

[Ss4sukE]

yes, after what happened in the crypto market in the previous year, of course this is now a challenge for me personally, how to earn income in a market situation that has not improved and there is only one way to switch to temporary trading while waiting for the market to recover.

[Amalker]

It is estimated that that the Cryptocurrency market capitalization went down to $200 billion from $800 billion that it was as at January 2018.
I believed it was due to the bearish market .
What I do not understand is while there is continuous growth of Cryptocurrency, people are picking interest and coming into the cryptosphere and yet the market capitalization is still not moving upwards.
What could be the challenge here?

Most likely crypto money is circulated only inside crypto market and there is no investments from outside. Weak altcoins sell out and crypto money goes to another more strong project.

[Cat Coin]

The capitalization figures that are presented to us do not reflect the true state of the market, in my opinion. Now and then slips information about transactions in addition to exchanges. So we have to wait for this to come out. And the cryptocurrency market will become legal. In many countries it is still banned.

[voztata]

It is estimated that that the Cryptocurrency market capitalization went down to $200 billion from $800 billion that it was as at January 2018.
I believed it was due to the bearish market .
What I do not understand is while there is continuous growth of Cryptocurrency, people are picking interest and coming into the cryptosphere and yet the market capitalization is still not moving upwards.
What could be the challenge here?

I think you need to check the market capitalization again and actually see that the it has been increasing lately unlike the massive decrease we saw last years. The truth is that a lot of persons made a lot of profit due to the 2017 growth we experienced and they where all taking out profit in 2018 that's why the market capitalization fell drastically.

Though, market capitalization don't really determine the price of the coins on exchange because it is gotten based on the law of demand and supply according to economists.

[Natalim]

You are referring to the entire crypto marketcap, you won't get an accurate data with that.
It will be more accurate if you only include those legitimate coins that are performing in the past and in the present.

The entire marketcap is down now because shitcoins are slowly getting worthless, and the next time it will grow, we can expect
that it's because of the legit coins. Don't look at the marketcap too much, just look on a certain coins you invested and plan to invest then follow them.
Price is a good factor to determine it's performance.

[leea-1334]

It is estimated that that the Cryptocurrency market capitalization went down to $200 billion from $800 billion that it was as at January 2018.
I believed it was due to the bearish market .
What I do not understand is while there is continuous growth of Cryptocurrency, people are picking interest and coming into the cryptosphere and yet the market capitalization is still not moving upwards.
What could be the challenge here?

Simple mathematics from your observation above show that Total Market Cap is only at 25% of the highest value. So you can see,,, most altcoins are worse than 25% of their ATH. This means that if you only use market cap, then coins that are 25% or more of their ATH are very strong. Bitcoin would not meet that criteria but almost does,,, for me another proof that market cap is not a good indicator. Do not use it to measure growth of crypto.

[SRKNGL]

We all know that these values do not reflect the truth. These are the values of most inflated volumes. I used to say that I used to check the daily volume, but now it is also fake bots.