As each halving is passing and this block reward decrease has started sounding like a big deal to me. Does anyone else also see individual satoshi becoming valuable in future?
I am more worried about the scaling problem to be honest. The price is gonna come by as per the Satoshi math. He already decided the fate when he was working on the entire Bitcoin project. That’s why there is bitcoin halving, that’s why there is ever increasing network difficulty. This helps minting of bitcoin very hard, thus more energy to mine thus more input of investment and thus more pricey it becomes.
So yeah that’s gonna happen. Maybe tomorrow or after 50 years. However, it would be interesting to understand how we are going to tackle the network congestion. The fees? Man it would take enormous fees by 2050, with inflated rates it would be worst to transact even thousands of bucks. What would we do about an individual sats worth 1 dollar or more.
Hmm... Potentially people would have to split Bitcoin into minor parts on that case, going beyond the currently 8 decimal houses BTC has today, or the fees should be paid in another currency, maybe an altcoin or stablecoin, because nobody is going to pay few satoshis for a transaction if each satoshi values 1$.
It must not be a big issue, though, because if we reach to that point, it means Bitcoin will be highly appreciated by the global community, therefore many specialists will act fastly on this matter to fix the issue immediately. Anyway, there must be a long time yet until we see this happening, as for now 1 satoshi still equals to only 0,0004$. It's not even equal to 1 cent from my local devalued currency yet.