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    1. Tuur Demeester‏ @TuurDemeester 9 Dec 2018
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      Does anyone have a chart or data showing the market caps of aboveground, physical monetary gold vs. silver? Goal is to calculate gold's market dominance over time.

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    2. Saifedean Ammous‏ @saifedean 9 Dec 2018
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      I don't think a market cap for silver makes sense after 1870. It lost value & people were consuming it industrially, not holding it. Also production increased so much compared to existing stocks,now both are in the same order of magnitude, making it a consumer good, not moneypic.twitter.com/D9TQ9SkE27

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    3. Tuur Demeester‏ @TuurDemeester 9 Dec 2018
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      Thanks. Is there an approximation from before that? Was there 5x times more silver tonnage in circulation than gold, or 20x? Trying to avoid unit bias.

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    4. Saifedean Ammous‏ @saifedean 9 Dec 2018
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      Very hard to get accurate measures for global stocks back then. I've never seen any. We can only really estimate it in 20th century because we have reliable global production data, which adds up to the majority of stockpiles if you count it.

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    5. Tuur Demeester‏ @TuurDemeester 9 Dec 2018
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      Silver is about 19x as abundant in the earth's crust, so perhaps it's reasonable to assume the aboveground supply was about 19x the tonnage of gold (before industrial use of Ag). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust …

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    6. Saifedean Ammous‏ @saifedean 9 Dec 2018
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      Fun fact from reading Ibn Khaldoun: alchemists claim the 13:1 ratio of abundance of silver to gold in earth is due to the moon making 13 rotations around the earth for each rotation the earth makes around the sun.

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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 9 Dec 2018
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      On another astronomical note: Silver: Universe 6×10-8% Sun 1×10-7% Earth's Crust 7.9×10-6% Gold: Universe 6×10-8% Sun1×10-7% Earth's Crust 3.1×10-7% Geochemical processes are more important than the raw abundance ratio for giving the mining cost ratio. http://periodictable.com/Properties/A/UniverseAbundance.html …

      10:47 PM - 9 Dec 2018
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        2. Arjun Balaji‏ @arjunblj 10 Dec 2018
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          This sounds about as scientific as the various attempts to quantify or derive a “valuation” for different blockchains based on “utility.”

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        3. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 10 Dec 2018
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          I'm not trying to derive a valuation, just chatting.

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        2. Master ⚡️100k/2.5k BTC/LTC 2021‏ @masterbtcltc 9 Dec 2018
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          Can’t help but compare litecoin to bitcoin. It’s supply is 4x but has similar qualities as bitcoin. $ltc #ltc #litecoin $btc #bitcoin #btcpic.twitter.com/oTZ440MSCr

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        3.  🐳Salty Phil Phates  🏔  🐐 💨‏ @PPhates 9 Dec 2018
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          $GFY this thread was getting interesting until this post. 🙄

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