But, if the same measurement is used to place a valuation on bitcoin, given that bitcoin is targeting a $ 40 trillion market in offshore banking, $ 8 trillion market in gold, and $ 50 trillion
in global reserve currencies, the market cap of bitcoin could be in the trillions.
Not exact matches
Still, to put things
in perspective, the U.S. dollar didn't become a
global reserve currency until after the Second World War, 150 years after it was created and three decades after the Federal
Reserve was formed.
The likely eventual inclusion of the Chinese yuan
in the elite rank of «
reserve currencies» will not threaten the
global leadership position of the US dollar, which currently accounts for over 60 % of
global currency reserves.
A few months earlier, Beijing had applied similar pressure on European nations, this time to join with it
in an unprecedented public call to replace the dollar as the
global reserve currency.
Chinese authorities had been propping up the yuan, contributing to an almost $ 300 billion drop
in foreign - exchange
reserves over the last four quarters, as policy makers sought to deter capital outflows and encourage
global usage of the
currency.
As I've already noted, Fed policies have significant effects internationally, given the central place of U.S. markets
in the
global financial system and the dollar's status as the leading
global reserve currency.
Many investors have invested
in bitcoin to avoid
global markets volatility and devaluation of
reserve currencies.
These actions mark Beijing's continued efforts to establish the yuan as a
global reserve currency and replace the US dollar
in the world's commodity exchanges.
The future of the US dollar as the
global reserve currency is one of the special topics tackled
in great detail this year, as is the rise of populist politics, and potential «black swans» or «gray swans», which continue to lurk
in the
global financial landscape, awaiting discovery by the unwary.
In a 6/25/15 address to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) forum (brought to our attention by Luke Gromen in his newsletter, The Forest for the Trees), Dr.Yao Yudong of the People's Bank of China stated, «Main reserve currency issuers may either fail to adequately meet the demand of a growing global economy for liquidity as they try to ease inflation pressures at home, or create excess liquidity in the global markets by overly stimulating domestic demand.&raqu
In a 6/25/15 address to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) forum (brought to our attention by Luke Gromen
in his newsletter, The Forest for the Trees), Dr.Yao Yudong of the People's Bank of China stated, «Main reserve currency issuers may either fail to adequately meet the demand of a growing global economy for liquidity as they try to ease inflation pressures at home, or create excess liquidity in the global markets by overly stimulating domestic demand.&raqu
in his newsletter, The Forest for the Trees), Dr.Yao Yudong of the People's Bank of China stated, «Main
reserve currency issuers may either fail to adequately meet the demand of a growing
global economy for liquidity as they try to ease inflation pressures at home, or create excess liquidity
in the global markets by overly stimulating domestic demand.&raqu
in the
global markets by overly stimulating domestic demand.»
A Nuanced View of
Global Prospects While there has been a somewhat indiscriminate run on the
currencies and stocks of emerging markets, fundamentals remain intact
in many countries where
currency reserves have grown exponentially since the 1980s.
Because of the 1994 Bretton Wood agreement, all
currencies around the world are priced
in USD (making the U.S. dollar the
global reserve currency).
In a recent interview with the U.K.'s Sunday Times, Dorsey predicted that bitcoin will eventually be the single
global reserve currency and argued that its slow and costly transactions will eventually «go away» as more people migrate to the blockchain.
The IMF has linked the SDR issue with quota reform because the weighting of the renminbi
in the
reserve currency bucket would be linked to the size of China's quota position
in the IMF, according to Marc Chandler,
global head of
currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman.
better yet — he's the type of guy to extort money from a congregation that doesn't understand
global economics, fiat
currency, OPEC, oil production, the supply chain, the exploration of oil
reserves or how foreign / state run companies keep supply low to drive up demand which they then use the proceeds to seed their Islamic theocracies which
in turn oppress woman and preach anti-American propaganda.
In fact, a healthy chunk of the US trade deficit is a result of the dollar being the largest
global reserve currency.
What could be more a more fitting end to being the world's
reserve currency than to default
in the end, but protect their own citizens, and send a large portion of the
global banking system into insolvency, aside from that
in the US?
Many small countries will peg their
currency's value to that of the US dollar, whilst
global banks will hold a large portion of
currency reserves in US dollar.
In this video he discusses the history of monetary shifts and explores a scenario where the US dollar could be debunked as the
global reserve currency.
Ever since the Bretton Woods agreements — the accords after the Second World War which bequeathed the architecture for the modern international financial system — America's trading partners have been left to cope with the impact of Washington's control and,
in more recent years, the hegemony of the dollar as the dominant
global reserve currency.
The collapse of Bretton Woods system
in 1973 and the shift of major
currencies to floating exchange rate regimes lessened the reliance on the SDR as a
global reserve asset.
Given the inflation that is happening
in the rest of the world, I find it difficult to believe that we are the only ones with low inflation, unless it is an artifact of being the
global reserve currency.
Shorting of bitcoin and whales selling the digital
currency to cash out short contracts could have realistically contributed to the decline
in the market cap of bitcoin, and because bitcoin is considered the
reserve currency of the market, the rest of the
global cryptocurrency market fell with it.
Many investors have invested
in bitcoin to avoid
global markets volatility and devaluation of
reserve currencies.
In other words, Ripple is attempting to turn XRP into a
global reserve currency of such even though it may not seem that way just yet.
Keeping a smaller
currency constantly pegged to a larger national one, to a regional one or even to a
global reserve currency, is a difficult task which many central banks around the world have failed to do
in the past
in times of crisis.
Experts
in the tech and finance sectors including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, billionaire investors Tim Draper and Alan Howard shared a similar sentiment
in saying that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin could become the
global reserve currency.