Bitcoin dominance is one of the most-quoted numbers in crypto, and one of the most misunderstood. It measures Bitcoin’s share of the total cryptocurrency market capitalisation \u2014 if the whole market is worth $2 trillion and Bitcoin accounts for $1.28 trillion of it, dominance is 64%.<\/p>\n
Dominance is a relative measure, not an absolute one. It can rise because Bitcoin is gaining while altcoins are flat, or because altcoins are falling faster than Bitcoin in a downturn. A rising number does not automatically mean Bitcoin is “winning” \u2014 context matters.<\/p>\n
Traders often watch it as a rough gauge of risk appetite. Historically, money has tended to rotate from Bitcoin into altcoins when confidence is high (pushing dominance down) and back into Bitcoin when the mood turns cautious (pushing it up). These are tendencies, not rules.<\/p>\n
The metric has real flaws. Stablecoins are counted in the total market cap, so a flood of new stablecoin supply can move dominance without anything happening to Bitcoin itself. Thinly traded tokens with unreliable supply figures also distort the denominator. Treat dominance as one lens among many, not a precise signal.<\/p>\n
Bitcoin dominance is a useful backdrop for understanding where attention and capital sit in the market \u2014 but it is a starting point for questions, not an answer on its own. You can follow the live BTC price and the wider market on our markets page<\/a>. Not financial advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bitcoin dominance measures BTC\u2019s share of the whole crypto market. Here is how to read it \u2014 and what it does and doesn\u2019t tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitadvent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}