500k is more realistic lol the only real chance of accuracy for this is from dollar devaluation as this person below says its quite inevitable at the moment but not at a pace that would make even 500k a realistic proposition. There would have to be a complete collapse and default by US treasury on debt owed leading to dollar to lose confidence in any backing.
The reality is that bitcoin WILL hit 1 million dollars one day. As long as it exists and as long as we still use it there is no possible scenario where bitcoin doesn't reach one million dollars. It may take 5 years or 10 years or 50 years but eventually it will happen.
The inflation already makes dollar worth a lot less than it used to be so comparing even a carton of milk 50 years ago and today they are totally different prices. This is also an investment product people put money in which means it will also gain momentum itself and we will have a 1 million dollar per bitcoin price eventually in our history, maybe even before we die but when very old. So, I do understand what John is saying but he is VERY WRONG on 2020 prediction part of it.
This picture is a good example, the history being in 1929 someone lost their fortune on stock declines. However he isnt selling the car as cheaply as we think, $100 at this time was near to 5 ounces of gold.
If we use the open market price now it would be 5x $1,300 or $6,500 which is still a good price for a fine car back then I'm sure. At that time gold had no market price beyond official government fix to dollar and so every dollar was backed by gold, now we are reverse to that and yet people value the dollar which has no proper backing.
That unknown backing to dollar which can vary from substantial demands by government to pay taxes and so create demand, into the opposite of giant supply and no demand. Ultimately the government has no use for its own dollars, only issuing them to others. Without backing from those who take dollars as payment there is nothing to fix dollar to any value. In this scenario even a wild prediction of 500k or a million for the price of BTC or anything outside or global use could be correct. Its not likely an event to occur within ten years but anything is possible
https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-history-of-the-gold-standard-3306136