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Topic: Number of Bitcoin Users vs. World Population, to scale - page 2. (Read 2499 times)

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Every estimate I've seen of the total number of bitcoin users is completely arbitrary. I think 625,000 is probably low.
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Probably smaller than the world furry population.
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Think of the growth potential!  Wink

This is why 1btc is either valueless when something better comes along or it's an obnoxious amount of money.

Can't wait till we see the "Sell your home for Bitcoin!" posters in the neighborhood - obnoxious amount of money.
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That image isn't really working for me.

thought id help out the OP, you and anyone else without zoom function


Ah makes sense now. Wow! incredible..
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That image isn't really working for me.

thought id help out the OP, you and anyone else without zoom function


That's useful, thanks. Wink

But I think we have far more than just 625k Bitcoin users. I'd say at least 10x times as many.

It's questionable if Bitcoin's target adoption is really equivalent to the world's population as well. I think one third of the population will always be left out due to various factors (politics, technology, wealth).

But there still is tremendous room to grow.

ya.ya.yo!
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Think of the growth potential!  Wink

This is why 1btc is either valueless when something better comes along or it's an obnoxious amount of money.
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Could we have a similar image showing also the internet users in 1996 and in, say, 2012?
It would have to be before 1996.  There were 36 million internet users in 1996.  Maybe the internet in 1990.  I used the internet in the 80's.
1990-1992 I would guess to be a pretty good parallel for where we are today with Bitcoin.

"The Internet's takeover of the global communication landscape was almost instant in historical terms: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks in the year 1993, already 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

If my theory proves to be accurate, Bitcoin will be several orders of magnitude larger by 2020.

That is if bitcoin progression does mimics the internet's.There is till no guarantee that bitcoin won't go the way of the PDAs or the pagers
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That image isn't really working for me.

thought id help out the OP, you and anyone else without zoom function
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https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU
Could we have a similar image showing also the internet users in 1996 and in, say, 2012?
It would have to be before 1996.  There were 36 million internet users in 1996.  Maybe the internet in 1990.  I used the internet in the 80's.
1990-1992 I would guess to be a pretty good parallel for where we are today with Bitcoin.

"The Internet's takeover of the global communication landscape was almost instant in historical terms: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks in the year 1993, already 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

If my theory proves to be accurate, Bitcoin will be several orders of magnitude larger by 2020.
GTA
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Think of the growth potential!  Wink
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Could we have a similar image showing also the internet users in 1996 and in, say, 2012?
It would have to be before 1996.  There were 36 million internet users in 1996.  Maybe the internet in 1990.  I used the internet in the 80's.
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Could we have a similar image showing also the internet users in 1996 and in, say, 2012?
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Less than 0.1% of the world population own bitcoin, clearly lots of room for adoption to grow
Hopefully the plethora of apps under development presenty will ease adoption even further
M8
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That image isn't really working for me.

Edit Nevermind Clicked it to enlarge. I guess bitcoin has a long way to go  Grin.
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