It puts things in perspective when you realise that bitcoin, right now, is the size of a bacteria sitting on a microbe of a flea’s skin, with the flea sitting on the back of the dog that’s walking with the man who is driving a car along a highway, where the highway cuts across a country that is part of the world that makes up Planet Earth.  bitcoin is the bacteria and Earth is the global derivatives markets.  Yep, that’s quite a difference.

bitcoin as compared to narrow money, broad money and the global derivatives markets in this picture from The Money Project.