it's the upside (silver) that's interesting. gosh will it do a 5x, a 10 x, maybe even go to 100 dollars/oz
that would be amazing, 20 fucking x
but it is the ceiling
now compare with bitcoin
I already told you the other day debt levels are 25x higher (or more) since back in the old days, pre-hunt brothers pump when the price of silver was around $5. Since the money supply is debt and debt is used as collateral where one man's liability is another man's asset, there would be nothing out of the ordinary for the price to be $5 x 25 = $125 right now without even having any type of economic catastrophe. Unless you want to use the high of the hunt brother's accumulation and multiply by 25 giving you something like $1000 an ounce.
Then factor in there's 1/4th as much above ground physical silver now as back then, while there's twice as much gold, so you can probably raise the lowball estimate of where it should be from $125 to much higher. So several hundred dollars per ounce without the banks even blowing up is not abnormal. Then if the banking system does blow up, or the banks are forced to go back to metals to recapitalize the system from debt bubble implosion, then you're probably looking at the greatest transfer of wealth of all time, rivaling or dwarfing craptocurrency pumps.
the world divided into 21 million coins
Craptocurrency has no Schelling point because anyone can make a new digital shitcoin in their basement, but you can't create a new noble metal in your basement. The shitcoin market is guaranteed to have mass fragmentation and there's no way possible to scam the world all into the same blockchain and force them to buy your imaginary, valueless tokens. Different countries and mega-corporations will all be pushing their own iterations, but those same entities will be unable to create a new silver or gold.