That's a somewhat -- "somewhat credible" speculation, but if everyone owns under 1 btc, that means there isnt enough market demand and bitcoin itself ceases to exist? because who would want to buy a bitcoin for $10,000-$100,000 how many millionaires / ultra high net worths are going to shell out that amount? Gotta play into logic and real reasoning before speculating because at that point what will the volume be for bitcoins??
So in the case of in 2020 owning 1 btc "unheard of" will become of the detriment of bitcoin. Think of it
Side note: in 5 years inflation would have adjusted the dollar for around 92% which = .92 for 1 dollar today ... so if in 2020 there is of such scenario I have no clue ... also 5% bitcoin loss per anum as well... so more of loss bitcoins and bitcoin wallets per year than viable usage.
additional tangent: "They don't call it smart money" for no reason ...
Bitcoin is like a gold bar -- it is divisible.
Only 20 million will exist.
12 million exist now.
At least 3 million minimum is completely lost in cyber space.. (not spendable)
Most of it will be saved or owned by governments by 2020.
That is some solid CooKoo speculation you have going there Professonalgoogler! lols, first of all, bitcoin is not equal to a "Gold Bar"(utility vs intangible asset aka fictitious asset, look up on your spare time)
anyways ...
by 2025 approximately 4,000,000-8,000,000 optimistically available bitcoins (all others were lost) remember its 5% loss per year over year. The dollar will still be a dollar then and why would governments want to hold onto a deflationary / loss of coins method for assets?
additional tangent: Response to Cconvergent Below.. Very Meta, trying to educamacate, is that how its spell't ... edumacate?