STUDYING THE IMPACT OF A CRYPTOCURRENCY'S UNIT PRICE ON ITS MARKET CAPITALIZATION USING CORRELATION AND REGRESSION ANALYSIS

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of a money surrogate, intro- duced in the form of a bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency. The purpose of the research is to study the influence of the price-per-unit value of the crypto- currency on the indicator of the market capitalization of the bitcoin crypto- currency through correlation-regression analysis. As a result of the re- search, the author becomes the first to prove the direct dependence of the mentioned indicators, namely, a strong relationship between the price per unit of the cryptocurrency and the indicator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency market capitalization.