Arithmetic on today's supply, not a forecast. It assumes nothing about whether Bitcoin could attract that much money.
A coin's market capitalisation is its price multiplied by the number of coins in circulation. Bitcoin has 20,127,961 BTC in circulation at $79,954.73 each, which is $1.61T. Holding that supply still and putting Chainlink's $8.58B in its place gives $426.4336 per BTC.
Bitcoin is already worth more than Chainlink. Moving to the smaller cap would take BTC down to $426.4336, which is 0.005x of what it trades at now.
Supply is held still, and in practice it moves: coins are minted, burned and unlocked, and every one of those changes the price a given market capitalisation implies. The figure also says nothing about whether the money exists to buy BTC at that level, which is the part that actually decides a price.
$426.4336 per BTC. That is Chainlink's current market capitalisation of $8.58B divided across the 20,127,961 BTC in circulation.
0.005x. Bitcoin trades at $79,954.73 today and Chainlink's market cap is $8.58B against Bitcoin's $1.61T.
No. It is one division: Chainlink's market capitalisation spread over the supply of BTC that exists today. It assumes nothing about whether Bitcoin could attract that much money, and it holds the supply still when in practice supply changes.
It sets it. Market cap is price times circulating supply, so the same $8.58B of market cap spread over more coins gives a lower price per coin. This uses the 20,127,961 BTC in circulation now.