Bitcoin briefly loses its spot as top cryptocurrency — Wait, what?

Bitcoin briefly loses its spot as top cryptocurrency — Wait, what?

Bitcoin's twin took over the number-one spot on CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin's market capitalization was briefly flippened today as Wrapped Bitcoin suddenly gained quadrillions of dollars in value. But crypto aficionados and maximalists need not worry: The move was a glitch on CoinMarketCap, which briefly displayed Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) as worth more than all other assets in the world combined. WBTC showed a behemoth market cap of about $432 quadrillion for a brief period (the total world money supply is estimated at $1.2 quadrillion, including derivatives, according to Rankred.com.) It sat....


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