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If I was to follow your logic to its ultimate conclusion (you can call that climax, though anticlimax would fit better), I would say that for a bull run (i.e. to see the effects of a bull run), we don't need even 5% as only a couple of deep pockets would do just wonders in this regard provided they persist at it.
Those pockets must be very deep, I mean with billions of USD. I wouldn't mind of course, but in reality it's easier to imagine millions of regular folks buying $1,000 worth of BTC each, than a couple of billionaires buying Bitcoin with all the money they have
Well, that claim needs a thorough check
Really, if it took Bitfinex only 2 billion tethers to drive the prices up to 20k, a couple of billionaires could easily move the price up a few thousand dollars (which could count as a good bull run) without making a substantial dent in their wealth figures. In fact, we don't and can't know for certain how much is actually needed to change the price for, say, 1 dollar at any given price (only in hindsight). And the amount required may well be below what we would assume otherwise
But is this really what we are looking for or are we actually looking for real adoption, let me repeat, en masse?
It seems to me that many a little makes a mickle, and it would be a preferred way of development to see Bitcoin adopted by the mass public ("en masse") even if their contribution would be small on a per-capita basis, so to speak. In more mundane terms, we don't so much need deep pockets as regular Janes and Joes getting their feet wet with cryptocurrencies. And this is exactly where Bitcoin has been bitterly failing so far
I absolutely agree with you, the more adopters the better. I'm just saying that even 5% of the world population would be enough for another major bull run
Okay then. Though I wouldn't call that a bull run as mass adoption doesn't necessarily mean higher prices (at least not in the sense a bull run suggests). If you ask me, more adoption would most certainly mean more stable prices, not them skyrocketing in a short while (though it remains to be seen)