The bitcoin virtual currency continues to be a conversation in world financial markets. Moreover, the exchange rate of bitcoin continues to soar to hundreds of millions of rupiah.
Bitcoin prices are increasingly unstoppable. Crypto currency prices continue to record the highest and has now penetrated the level of US $ 12,000. Quoting CNBC to refer CoinDesk sites, bitcoin prices have reached US $ 12,123.98, Wednesday morning (6/12).
As a result, bitcoin market capitalization was increasingly bulging to US $ 203 billion. The value of market bitcoin stamp has already exceeded the gross domestic product (GDP) of a number of countries. Take for example New Zealand which according to World Bank data has a GDP value of US $ 185 billion as of July 2017. Bloomberg reported, bitcoin market capitalization is also greater than Qatar, Kuwait and Hungary GDP.
Not only that. With the bitcoin market cap now, it is more than enough to buy 15 units of the latest super aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. The nuclear-powered supercarrier carrier was shipped to the United States Navy in May 2017 at a price of around US $ 13 billion or equivalent to Rp 175.5 trillion per unit.
The market capitalization of the world's top companies has already been overtaken by bitcoin. The market surge of bitcon boom has even gone beyond the market capitalization of the two most influential banks in the world namely Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and UBS Group AG.
Goldman Sachs market capitalization was recorded at US $ 93.67 billion yesterday. Meanwhile, UBS Group AG's market capitalization value amounted to US $ 64.65 billion. Although merged, the market cap of the two banks has not been able to beat the bitcoin.
The assets of the world's top two billionaires, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett if combined will not be enough to buy all the bitcoin in the market today. Of course, according to Bloomberg billionaires index, Gates's net worth is worth US $ 90 billion, while Buffett owns US $ 84.3 billion.