> Yeah, but if you wanted to sell $1M worth of coins you'd probably use an auction at Gemini or elsewhere so you don't move through more than 2 or 3 price levels of the book.
Selling $1m worth of bitcoins on GDAX, Bitstamp and Bitfinex results in a slippage of 0.2864%, 0.3527%, and 0.2910%, respectively.
As far as I can gather from Gemini's fee schedule[1], they take a >0.40% fee even if you've traded for more than $10m in the past 30 days, so I'm not sure it's worth it for a $1m market sell.
[1] https://gemini.com/fee-schedule/#fee-schedule
> You could make the same argument for Gold or Platinum being over valued based on slippage from open interest at a point in time.
I disagree. I'm not arguing that anything is over-valued. Simply that market cap as a measure of value of commodities does not make sense, because of the great difference in marginal utility between them.
Yeah, but if you wanted to sell $1M worth of coins you'd probably use an auction at Gemini or elsewhere so you don't move through more than 2 or 3 price levels of the book.
You'd also probably enable some sort of smart selling algo for the same reason were you try and move $1M worth of BTC not at auction.
You could make the same argument for Gold or Platinum being over valued based on slippage from open interest at a point in time.