With 21 billion coins how can this coin have any real value? I don't understand...
At the first time if you want some simplicity for the mind
Just divide the coins by 1000 to get the usual quantities at BTC
So, 1000 BTCz = 1 BTC
It's so simple.
After some time you will find that billions not a problem at all.
But that is completely wrong... 1000 BTCZ = 0.0008 / $118 ? 1,250,000 BTCZ = 1 bitcoin ?
That's not what he meant. He just answered your question. You asked how can this coin have a value and the answer is simple:
- lets suppose BTC max supply is reached, that's 21M, and that the price will be 15000$ for 1 BTC;
- that means BTC will have a marketcap of 315B $;
- lets suppose BTCZ reaches max supply, that's 21B
- lets suppose BTCZ will have marketcap equal with BTC's marketcap, thats 315B $
- this means that BTCZ's price is 15$.
This is just a suppose.
In real life the market changes , BTC might fall or might get even higher, the only thing you have to keep in mind is that BTCZ can be as big as BTC is now(january 2018) if reaches only 15$ in value. We know that being as big as BTC is hard, but technically BTCZ is better, with privacy in Z addresses and lightning fast transactions. All we need is to get the supply circulating (mine the coins), HOLD them as we are believers (otherwise whales can influence the coin's price), and buy them from miners that have to pay bills.
In other words and on a more realistic picture BTCZ is not designed to be a souvenir or an investment like gold or diamonds. BTCZ is designed to actually get rid of calculating BTC amount that you should transfer when you have to pay 23$ for something. For BTCZ it should be something like 11 BTCZ = 23$ (it's just an example). BTCZ doesn't need a value of 15.000 $ to be as big as BTC, it just needs to get to 15$, and that's a good and fair price, since it doesn't have dev taxes, it wasn't premined, it is asic resistant, so everybody has a fair start.