Not long ago, I started looking into how much money is actually in the world, and the numbers are pretty astonishing when you think about it.

According to the latest data, we’re talking about approximately 37 trillion dollars in global circulation. That includes everything—from the cash you carry in your wallet to deposits in bank accounts. But here’s the interesting part: if you expand that a bit and add bank deposits and liquid assets to the equation, the numbers jump to tens of trillions of dollars.

Now, if we separate only physical money (coins and bills), we’re looking at about 6.6 trillion dollars. It’s interesting because most people think there’s a lot more cash floating around, but the reality is that most of the money in the world exists only in digital form.

What really caught my attention was noticing how much money there is in the world in the form of investments, derivatives, and cryptocurrencies. That totals more than 1.2 trillion dollars. Cryptocurrencies are a small fraction of this, but they’re growing more and more.

I kept thinking: with all that money circulating globally, what is really our share in all of this? It’s one of those data points that makes you rethink how the financial system works. Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystem are just a drop in the ocean compared with the total money supply, but more and more people are realizing that what matters isn’t how much money is in the world—it’s how that money is distributed and controlled.