{"id":27936,"date":"2025-05-21T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=27936"},"modified":"2025-05-21T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:32:10","slug":"bitcoin-overtakes-amazon-as-the-fifth-largest-asset-hitting-2-16t-market-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=27936","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Overtakes Amazon as the Fifth Largest Asset, Hitting $2.16T Market Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitcoin BTC became the world\u2019s fifth-largest asset after hitting a new all-time high on Wednesday, which pushed its market cap to $2.16 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Though the crypto\u2019s price consolidated lower after hitting a high of $109,400, its market cap passed Amazon (AMZN), which stands at $2.15 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin is up 16.44% year-to-date while shares of the online retailer are down about 8% over the same period. It is currently trading at $108,954.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/57cb69627fcace46effa27af9dc35c3c0adb8fdb-1397x617.png?auto=format\" alt=\"(CompaniesMarketCap)\" title=\"(CompaniesMarketCap)\"><\/p>\n<p>Gold is the largest asset, by far, standing at a $22 trillion market cap, followed by Microsoft (MSFT), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Apple (AAPL) which stand at $3.1 trillion to $3.4 trillion respectively.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the surge in bitcoin\u2019s price since the win of U.S. President Donald Trump, BlackRock\u2019s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recently became the fifth-largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) by inflows this year as it took in roughly $9 billion from investors, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ericbalchunas\/status\/1925152281558737026?s=46&amp;t=GB3EbtFKrQy-VuFozGCyWA\">data<\/a> from Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin BTC became the world\u2019s fifth-largest asset after hitting a new all-time high on Wednesday, which pushed its market cap to $2.16 trillion. Though the crypto\u2019s price consolidated lower after hitting a high of $109,400, its market cap passed Amazon (AMZN), which stands at $2.15 trillion. Bitcoin is up 16.44% year-to-date while shares of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-27936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}