Honestly, when you start to understand how much money there is in the world, your head spins a little from the scale. Because the answer depends on how you generally count money.

If you only consider physical cash — banknotes and coins in circulation — it's about 40 trillion dollars. It sounds huge, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. When you add bank deposits that can be quickly withdrawn, the figure jumps to around 80 trillion. And if you include savings accounts and other liquid assets, the amount of money in the world becomes even larger — somewhere between 100 and 130 trillion.

But that's not all. When we talk about the real value of financial assets — stocks, bonds, various derivatives — the numbers are completely different. Here, we're already talking about 400 to 500 trillion. And if you consider complex financial instruments and derivatives, the nominal value can even go into quadrillions.

These sums are constantly changing — sometimes central banks print money, sometimes the market fluctuates, and sometimes economic factors intervene. But here's what's interesting: no matter how much money there is in the world, cryptocurrency assets already occupy a noticeable share. According to some estimates, crypto now makes up about a third of these global money flows. If it used to seem like science fiction, now it's just a reality of the financial landscape.