Prior to COVID-19, six leading banks had a market cap above Bitcoin's.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the world's 14 largest banks have lost $635.33 billion in market capitalization.
This is more than three times the current market capitalization of Bitcoin and almost double the capitalization of all cryptocurrencies.
Market capitalization of the world's biggest banks.
For reference, Bitcoin's market cap at the time was $130 billion.
As the world was entering the pandemic induced recession, six of the banks on the list had a market cap higher than Bitcoin.
Every single bank on the list has shed billions of dollars off their market capitalization, while Bitcoin has gained $62 billion, or 48%, over the same period.
As previously reported, the world's largest pension fund lost an equivalent of Bitcoin's market cap in a single quarter.
Bitcoin has been gaining unprecedented adoption amongst traditional investors as reflected by the growth of Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust.
The negative results they've experienced may have even been caused in part by the recent multi-trillion dollar stimuli from the central banks around the world.
World's largest banks lost 3x Bitcoin's market cap during the pandemic
Published on Sep 14, 2020
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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