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Is it a billion dollars, though? I mean, if you started selling them, the market price would likely go down. In other words, are there enough people looking to buy 94504 BTC at current market value?


Sure, but the flip side is that if you had a billion dollars you couldn't acquire this many BTC because the price would move against you the other direction.


This is true of any market cap valuation.


> Is it a billion dollars, though? I mean, if you started selling them, the market price would likely go down

It's actually a good question. Very few actors in the Bitcoin space actually know what the "global order book" looks like and how much liquidity there actually is in that market.


I'm sure you could sell the wallet to someone bullish on bitcoin for a good sum though.




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