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In the cryptoworld, market capitalization shows the value of all units of a specific cryptocurrency that are for sale right now. To calculate a cryptocurrency’s market cap, simply multiply the cryptocurrency’s current price by its circulating supply. Circulating supply is the best approximate number of coins that are circulating in the market and in the general public’s hands.

Market cap = Price × Circulating supply

With a knowledge of what role a coin’s market cap plays in the industry, you can start to evaluate cryptocurrencies based on that metric.

Where does cryptocurrency come from? Cryptocurrency can be mined — the least common form, actually — or it can be pre-mined.

To say that a cryptocurrency has been pre-mined, or is nonmineable, simply means that the cryptocurrency already exists. The blockchain is a ledger containing information about transactions. When the blockchain was first created, the ledger already contained a record of all the cryptocurrency that the founders planned for. No more will be added; it’s all there in the blockchain already.