Trillions evaporate, and Bitcoin slips off the podium.
By Maxime Laurent · 2026-02-02 09:09
Trillions evaporate, and Bitcoin slips off the podium.
Metals are bleeding hard, and $BTC quietly falls to 13th place among global assets.
Let that sink in. In just 24 hours, gold and silver combined lost ~$1.66 trillion in market cap. That’s not a correction, that’s tectonic plates shifting. Against this backdrop, Bitcoin dropped out of the global top-10 assets, landing at 13th place with ~$1.53T capitalization. Not long ago, it was chilling comfortably in the top-5.
The current leaderboard feels surreal. Gold still towers at $31.6T, untouchable. Nvidia sits at $4.65T, basically printing the AI era in real time. Silver, Alphabet, and Apple round out the top. Old money, new tech, tangible stuff. And $BTC? Temporarily pushed aside.
But here’s the thing. Rankings change fast in moments of stress. Bitcoin didn’t fall because something broke fundamentally — it fell because liquidity, sentiment, and leverage all pulled back at once. Metals losing trillions tells you this isn’t a “crypto problem”. It’s a global repricing of what people thought was untouchable.
Leaving the top-10 hurts the ego, sure. But markets have short memories. And $BTC has a long habit of coming back when everyone stops watching. On a déjà vu ce film-là. 🌊
#bitcoin #btc #markets #macro #gold #silver #assets #capitalization
Metals are bleeding hard, and $BTC quietly falls to 13th place among global assets.
Let that sink in. In just 24 hours, gold and silver combined lost ~$1.66 trillion in market cap. That’s not a correction, that’s tectonic plates shifting. Against this backdrop, Bitcoin dropped out of the global top-10 assets, landing at 13th place with ~$1.53T capitalization. Not long ago, it was chilling comfortably in the top-5.
The current leaderboard feels surreal. Gold still towers at $31.6T, untouchable. Nvidia sits at $4.65T, basically printing the AI era in real time. Silver, Alphabet, and Apple round out the top. Old money, new tech, tangible stuff. And $BTC? Temporarily pushed aside.
But here’s the thing. Rankings change fast in moments of stress. Bitcoin didn’t fall because something broke fundamentally — it fell because liquidity, sentiment, and leverage all pulled back at once. Metals losing trillions tells you this isn’t a “crypto problem”. It’s a global repricing of what people thought was untouchable.
Leaving the top-10 hurts the ego, sure. But markets have short memories. And $BTC has a long habit of coming back when everyone stops watching. On a déjà vu ce film-là. 🌊
#bitcoin #btc #markets #macro #gold #silver #assets #capitalization
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