some day that can happen as bitcoin grows in adoption. but not yet, we are very far from that day. you may hang around in bitcoin related communities and see bitcoin only and a lot of trades so that may seem to you like a lot but if you get out and look at the market from outside with a fresh eye you can see that despite all the growth that bitcoin had in the past few years the market is not yet that big. we need to grow a lot more for it to be able to become as big as stocks market,...
I disagree a bit with this.
If bitcoin becomes more popular and adoptions kicks in really globally, not the levels we're seeing now with 10 companies accepting coins and a few thousand ATMs worldwide (not even talking about the puny 200k transactions a day) probably the price will stop being so volatile and we're going to reach a level where for sure holding won't bring you x1000 times return.
Actually, I think we're at a point where x100 is probably the best we can hope for a decade.
When this happens a lot will lose interest as there is no longer possible to become rich overnight with a 10$ investment.