realistically not a lot. optimistically 5% will own some form of cryptocurrency.
5% is not even realistic, that is too big when you are getting that percentage from the total population in the world. We are just a small community since we are not regulated yet and we have limited functions as a currency that we are only good in online. 
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to me not more than one percent people will be using bitcoin in 2020. as still most of the countries have no idea about bitcoin and it will take a lot of time to become more popular may be take decades,
I think for me below 2 btc are more people are own bitcoins since the price will increase more in the future so halving 1 or 2 btc is more easy than halving 10 btc or more.. 1 btc for me is hard to earn..
I think nowadays may be just 10% of the global population use and own Bitcoins. I hope by 2020 we can see 15% at least using and owning this currency
According to answer by some members here i saw that its more vote in 22% of users of bitcoin in earth are using bitcoin..
I think 10% of the population of the earth are using bitcoin.
I think 10% of the population of the earth are using bitcoin.
I think actually less than 20% of people on earth own or use Bitcoin. I hope that by 2020 we reach 20% of the global population using and owning Bitcoin.
Probably still very small, even 5% is unlikely.. it's only a bit more than 3 years away..
We are talking about the population of Earth and there are I guess 7.4 billion people already living today and on 2020 I guess it is not even going to reach 5% because 5% of 7.4 billion would probably closely to 370 million people. I think 3 years is not enough to reach that number of users of bitcoin on that year. I think still that would be close to 1%.
Even in 2030, the users number will not reach 1% of the world population. There are fewer than 200,000 now.
Probably still very small, even 5% is unlikely.. it's only a bit more than 3 years away..
We are talking about the population of Earth and there are I guess 7.4 billion people already living today and on 2020 I guess it is not even going to reach 5% because 5% of 7.4 billion would probably closely to 370 million people. I think 3 years is not enough to reach that number of users of bitcoin on that year. I think still that would be close to 1%.
Probably still very small, even 5% is unlikely.. it's only a bit more than 3 years away..
We are talking about the population of Earth and there are I guess 7.4 billion people already living today and on 2020 I guess it is not even going to reach 5% because 5% of 7.4 billion would probably closely to 370 million people. I think 3 years is not enough to reach that number of users of bitcoin on that year. I think still that would be close to 1%.
Since the amount of Bitcoins is limited I don't think that the percentage could enlarge dramaticaly even if there was interest. But at the moment, if you look globaly, there is only small number of world's population are Bitcoin users. To my opinion the demand for Bitcoin will rise among existing users so the price could go up dramaticaly in the future.
The amount of the bitcoin number is not relevant. Anybody can own 0.001 bitcoin if he wants in the future.
September 28, 2016, 07:25:13 AM
Since the amount of Bitcoins is limited I don't think that the percentage could enlarge dramaticaly even if there was interest. But at the moment, if you look globaly, there is only small number of world's population are Bitcoin users. To my opinion the demand for Bitcoin will rise among existing users so the price could go up dramaticaly in the future.
September 27, 2016, 09:06:48 PM
Probably still very small, even 5% is unlikely.. it's only a bit more than 3 years away..
September 27, 2016, 08:50:12 PM
Now at the moment only few people know about this coin. Let's assume 1% of total population people. And it's increasing very slowly, only increases .5% more in 2020 hardly.
Not to mention that not all that start using bitcoin are going to continue and not to mention also that some of those who start using bitcoin are investing in it...So by 2020 I think we will not see much difference in user...Except if it is already easy to use bitcoin locally without using exchanges...
Actually it's depend on the bitcoin's user. If the bitcoin's user want motivate other people to use bitcoin, many people will own bitcoin by 2020. If not, only few peoples that know about bitcoins.
September 27, 2016, 08:26:55 PM
Now at the moment only few people know about this coin. Let's assume 1% of total population people. And it's increasing very slowly, only increases .5% more in 2020 hardly.
Not to mention that not all that start using bitcoin are going to continue and not to mention also that some of those who start using bitcoin are investing in it...So by 2020 I think we will not see much difference in user...Except if it is already easy to use bitcoin locally without using exchanges...
September 27, 2016, 08:03:35 PM
Anybody want to do the math with me?
There are 10.5 million bitcoin addresses in existence and 5.7 million with balances equal to $1 or greater, according to this site: https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html.
Let's be generous and assume that of the 5.7m addresses that a different person owns each address. We know that's not true so this will be a very generous estimate.
5.7 million people with a bitcoin address (therefore using bitcoin) out of 7.4 billion people in the world. That results in ~0.0007% of the worlds population using bitcoin!
So the scale of this poll isn't very realistic, but it's still fun to talk about.
Let's lower our population to just those that have access to the internet, because without the internet you can't really get your hands on any coin. (You even need the internet to buy one of Mike Caldwell's Casascius coins!)
There are 3.2 billion people with access to the internet. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=How+many+people+have+access+to+the+internet%3F
5.7m people with a bitcoin address out of 3.2b people ups our digital currency savvy share of the population to ~0.0017%!
Crazy small percentages. But that's ok. It means there's a lot of upside! We all just need to keep spreading the word.
There are 10.5 million bitcoin addresses in existence and 5.7 million with balances equal to $1 or greater, according to this site: https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html.
Let's be generous and assume that of the 5.7m addresses that a different person owns each address. We know that's not true so this will be a very generous estimate.
5.7 million people with a bitcoin address (therefore using bitcoin) out of 7.4 billion people in the world. That results in ~0.0007% of the worlds population using bitcoin!
So the scale of this poll isn't very realistic, but it's still fun to talk about.
Let's lower our population to just those that have access to the internet, because without the internet you can't really get your hands on any coin. (You even need the internet to buy one of Mike Caldwell's Casascius coins!)
There are 3.2 billion people with access to the internet. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=How+many+people+have+access+to+the+internet%3F
5.7m people with a bitcoin address out of 3.2b people ups our digital currency savvy share of the population to ~0.0017%!
Crazy small percentages. But that's ok. It means there's a lot of upside! We all just need to keep spreading the word.
Thanks for this simple math, not simple either but this is much more realistic than the other statistics that are coming out.
So the total of the users of bitcoin as of today are not even reaching 1% of the world's population, I'm not surprised either.
But if we are going to think about it since 2009, good thing that there are already 0.0017% of world's population in total who uses bitcoin.
That is really fast if we are going to think and technology is been very fast when it comes to adoption and innovation so for sure in 2020 this percentage is going to increase.
The bitcoin is getting popular day after day or year after year. This can be proved by the daily transaction volumes.
September 27, 2016, 12:51:48 PM
5.7 million people with a bitcoin address (therefore using bitcoin) out of 7.4 billion people in the world. That results in ~0.0007% of the worlds population using bitcoin!
Wrong math, remove two zeroes: 0.07%. And already blockchain is slow because of the large transaction volume.100 times more users can almost be magic for Bitcoin's value.
Around 10% maybe now are using it most users have more adresses so this ight be good number
Do you mean 10% of the world population using the bitcoin now? I do not think so. there will be fewer than 1 million people using the bitcoin.
Maybe the users of bitcoin community does not possess 10% of world population but this is for sure that they are more than 1 million by now, because we can see that the users database of bitcoin is increasing drastically and if you see the users of this forum they are around 800k or above so not all the users of bitcoin are using this forum, they can be more than 1 million if accumulated.
September 27, 2016, 12:46:56 PM
5.7 million people with a bitcoin address (therefore using bitcoin) out of 7.4 billion people in the world. That results in ~0.0007% of the worlds population using bitcoin!
Wrong math, remove two zeroes: 0.07%. And already blockchain is slow because of the large transaction volume.100 times more users can almost be magic for Bitcoin's value.
Around 10% maybe now are using it most users have more adresses so this ight be good number
Do you mean 10% of the world population using the bitcoin now? I do not think so. there will be fewer than 1 million people using the bitcoin.
September 20, 2016, 12:07:13 PM
5.7 million people with a bitcoin address (therefore using bitcoin) out of 7.4 billion people in the world. That results in ~0.0007% of the worlds population using bitcoin!
Wrong math, remove two zeroes: 0.07%. And already blockchain is slow because of the large transaction volume.100 times more users can almost be magic for Bitcoin's value.
Around 10% maybe now are using it most users have more adresses so this ight be good number
September 18, 2016, 09:29:56 PM
5.7 million people with a bitcoin address (therefore using bitcoin) out of 7.4 billion people in the world. That results in ~0.0007% of the worlds population using bitcoin!
Wrong math, remove two zeroes: 0.07%. And already blockchain is slow because of the large transaction volume.100 times more users can almost be magic for Bitcoin's value.
September 16, 2016, 03:57:59 PM
5.7 million people with a bitcoin address (therefore using bitcoin) out of 7.4 billion people in the world. That results in ~0.0007% of the worlds population using bitcoin!
Wrong math, remove two zeroes: 0.07%. And already blockchain is slow because of the large transaction volume.100 times more users can almost be magic for Bitcoin's value.
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