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Re:SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploi... by fleddr on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:27PM (#27669663)
The supply of a stock in itself is meaningless, the only point of a stock is its USD value representation. In the case of a mass sell-off, sure, the same amount of stocks exist, but its monetary value sinks. Hence the market cap goes up in smoke.

This is also why a fraction of a market cap (say a few billion) can dramatically move a stock price of a 1 trillion market cap.

Same for Bitcoin. If its market price crashes, the same amount of Bitcoin exists. Yet this means nothing as only the BTCUSD pair is worth anything.

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