{"id":387083,"date":"2021-12-29T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T05:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bitcoin-dominance-falls-under-40\/"},"modified":"2021-12-29T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T05:53:55","slug":"bitcoin-dominance-falls-under-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoin-dominance-falls-under-40\/","title":{"rendered":"# Bitcoin dominance falls under 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Bitcoin dominance falls under 40% <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMTIvNWJhNTJiZGUtNzAxOC00OWRmLThmNzAtZDViNDMyZGFmM2U1LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>Bitcoin\u2019s market dominance has continued to fall, bottoming out below 40% this week. That\u2019s very close to the all-time low of 36.7% in Jan 2018 according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/CRYPTOCAP-BTC.D\/\">data<\/a> from Tradingview.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin (BTC) market dominance refers to the ratio between BTC\u2019s market cap and the total crypto market cap.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time dominance has dipped in 2021. Back in May, Cointelegraph reported that BTC had dipped to represent just 40.3% of the combined crypto asset capitalization, according to Coinmarketcap, and it neared the same level again in September.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin critic and Europac chairman Peter Schiff <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSchiff\/status\/1475828285368057859?s=20\">tweeted<\/a> about the event on Dec 29th, saying that it\u2019s indicative that BTC is \u201closing its first-mover competitive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With over 16,000 alternative cryptos to choose from Bitcoin&#8217;s market dominance is now below 40% for the first time since June of 2018. With an unlimited supply of easily created cryptos with virtually identical properties, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> is losing its first-mover competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSchiff\/status\/1475828285368057859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nResearch <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tradingplatforms.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/27\/altcoins-market-dominance-up-3x-in-the-last-7-years\/\">published<\/a> by TradingPlatforms on Dec 27 stated that the data may signal an incoming \u201calt season\u201d. Over the last seven years, altcoin market dominance has increased threefold from 21% in 2014 to around the 60% mark this month.<\/p>\n<p>Ethererum\u2019s (ETH\u2019s) market dominance continues to sit above 20% at almost\u200b\u200b $500 billion. Over the past year, ETH\u2019s market dominance has doubled from 10%.<\/p>\n<p>In a Dec 24 tweet, Crypto analyst \u201cAltcoin Sherpa\u201d claimed that the \u201calt season\u201d has already been underway for an entire year. They referenced a chart tracking BTC\u2019s market dominance, suggesting that the downward trend may continue. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Altcoins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Altcoins<\/a>: Mini thread here on &#8216;wen <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Altseason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Altseason<\/a>&#8216;. Alt season has been going on for an entire year, you just haven&#8217;t noticed it. Here&#8217;s the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> dominance chart- you can see alts have flourished since January 2021. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c2w1PjHrqV\">pic.twitter.com\/c2w1PjHrqV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Altcoin Sherpa (@AltcoinSherpa) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AltcoinSherpa\/status\/1474061024605134849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if institutional investment will help put a floor under the dominance metric. In a Dec 28 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n2EUifZgj2U\">interview<\/a> with CNBC, Genesis Trading\u2019s head of market insights Noelle Acheson said that she could see \u201cstrong signs\u201d of institutional crypto investment growth accelerating during 2022. <\/p>\n<p>She said that the amount of institutional investment growth in the crypto space over the last 12 months \u201chas been astonishing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Bitcoin dominance on the rise once again as crypto market rallies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in October, analysts from international banking giant JPMorgan stated that the BTC rally at the time was being fueled by an increased <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>etite from institutional investors. They claimed that \u201cinstitutional investors appear to be returning to Bitcoin, perhaps seeing it as a better inflation hedge than gold.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>According to on-chain <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/2021-bitcoin-accumulation-long-term-holding-rose-16\/\">data<\/a> from Glassnode, although BTC\u2019s short-term supply has decreased by 32%, long-term holders added 16% to their treasuries during 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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That\u2019s very close to the all-time low of 36.7% in Jan 2018 according to data from Tradingview. Bitcoin (BTC) market dominance refers to the ratio between BTC\u2019s market cap and the total crypto market cap&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMTIvNWJhNTJiZGUtNzAxOC00OWRmLThmNzAtZDViNDMyZGFmM2U1LmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,75679,74355,73785],"class_list":["post-387083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-market-capitalization","tag-adoption","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}