There have been plenty of discussions from time to time on the price speculation of Bitcoin. Where do you guys see the price of one Bitcoin in the years to come? Most importantly, why? How would Bitcoin work? Bitcoin can not exist independently without any other currency, because then where do you derive its value? Imagine Bitcoin though is adopted worldwide, as a popular secondary means of processing transactions. What should the value be of a Bitcoin if literally every person who owned a bank account and debit and credit cards also used Bitcoin wallets and bitcoins daily.
My theory is that the value of a Bitcoin needs to be the sum of all the value of money that exists in the world divided by 21 million bitcoins then adjusted to market price.
Why is Bitcoin priced at what it is today and what is its maximum potential to be valued at?
I don't know about the whole world, but america has an M2 money supply of roughly 13 trillion right now (12.8 ) and growing by 100 billion
a month.
According to
one source it's about 81 trillion. Which sounds about right.
If you'd divide that by 21 million, that would mean $3,857,142.85 per bitcoin.
If you divide that by the ~15.2 million bitcoin that are
currently in circulation, that'd be $5,328,947.36 per bitcoin.
Also keep in mind, and I have said this many times but it can't be said often enough. There's only ever going to be 21 million bitcoins, but there's over 7 billion humans in the world. Which means
that everyone will only ever have less than 0.003
BTC (3 m
BTC) bitcoin on average. If you hold any more than this, you'll be considered above average rich.
But, the world population grows a lot, so actually it's even better. In 2035 it's expected we have a world population of about 8.6 billion, so the average amount of bitcoin people would have then would be about 0.00232
BTC or 2.32 m
BTC per person.
You should really stop counting in
BTC and start counting in m
BTC or even µ
BTC because a mBTC would be about the entire networth of most peopleBitcoin can't scale to anywhere near the mass adoption you are talking about, so there's that...
it can, it just takes time.
they kept saying the same about the internet. The internet can't scale for images, the internet can't scale for moving images, the internet can't scale for HD video, the internet can't scale for streaming.
And yet, here we are.