Bitcoin Dominance Is Broken. Watch Altcoin Dominance Instead.

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Bitcoin Dominance Is Broken. Watch Altcoin Dominance Instead.

Bitcoin dominance is the number everyone quotes and almost nobody computes correctly. It divides Bitcoin's market cap by the market cap of all crypto, and it counts stablecoins inside the "everything else" bucket. Stablecoins do not fluctuate. They are parked cash, not a risk asset. Strip them out and the picture changes. Altcoins excluding stablecoins, measured against Bitcoin, sit at levels last seen in 2019 and 2020. That is not a belief, it is what the ratio prints. In this video I walk the metric from scratch: what dominance measures, why the Genius Act stablecoin growth broke it, how I rebuild it as total altcoin market cap excluding stablecoins over Bitcoin, and what that rebuilt chart says about where we are in the cycle. Then the honest caveat: this setup does not have to resolve upward. It resolved in 2021 because the money printer went ballistic, so I show you the Fed balance sheet overlay that tracks it and where that stands today, 11 months into a slow QE program running about 20 to 25 billion dollars a month. Nothing here is a call that Bitcoin's price falls. Dominance is a statement about rotation, about Bitcoin's share of the market. Those are two different sentences. Taken from the VirtualBacon livestream, 2026-09-09. I go live every weekday at 10 AM Eastern covering crypto, stocks, AI and macro. Subscribe and turn notifications on. ----------------------------------------------------- Chapters 0:00 Stop reading Bitcoin dominance the way everyone reads it 0:15 The problem: it counts stablecoins 0:58 The market share breakdown, and the 10 percent that should not be there 1:44 How I rebuild the metric properly 2:35 The chart: we are repeating 2019 into 2020 3:14 Are altcoins actually cheap? Yes, and here is why 4:06 Two conclusions from this chart 5:25 The honest caveat: this does not have to happen 5:45 How to track the money printer 6:06 August 2019: the balance sheet bottom and the altcoin bottom 6:43 Where the Fed balance sheet sits right now 7:11 Why global liquidity still works, just slowly