Market Cap Limitations

Commenters repeatedly critique market capitalization as a misleading metric, emphasizing that it does not represent actual cash, realizable value, liquidity, or true wealth for companies or cryptocurrencies.

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Sample Comments

jack_pp Nov 21, 2017 View on HN

"market cap" is a very bad representation of the overall value which is impossible to actually estimate. try selling 600 million worth of btc and see how that cap changes.

bbor Jun 16, 2023 View on HN

They’re talking about market cap. It just disappears :)

rafram Nov 20, 2023 View on HN

Market cap is not really real money.

blibble Jun 30, 2025 View on HN

"market cap" is not captial that has been created

soheil Apr 21, 2022 View on HN

I see I thought that was the market cap.

wmf May 17, 2021 View on HN

Are you talking about market cap or something else?

buboard Feb 28, 2020 View on HN

this is not money, it's market cap

trophycase Sep 7, 2018 View on HN

Their market cap begs to differ I suppose

Scoring6931 Feb 21, 2025 View on HN

Market cap is not cash in the bank.

MadSudaca Nov 22, 2017 View on HN

How does $525.34B market cap translate to being more powerful than most countries?