Could anyone estimate how many people from total world population may adopt bitcoins in next 10 to 25 years. Also, we need to consider how much they may invest based on their affordable limits. When these are beyond our calculations, I guess we cannot speculate where bitcoins may settle on its maturity.
There's always talk of investing in Bitcoin but hardly any talk ever about earning it. That has the potential to draw in vastly more money than the savings of a bunch of randoms.
There are tens or hundreds of millions of people out there who could be working and creating on behalf of people halfway around the planet who currently don't have a straightforward way of being recompensed let alone saving or storing it securely.
If a significant flow of work was heading to developing countries that would spark economic activity all the way up and down the ladder. It doesn't have to be just parking your dollars in BTC and letting them sit there until it's time to remove them again.
That's what I was just telling some colleagues in the freelance market. Even when we talk about earning, or when there are earning opportunities related to Bitcoin, they're almost always investment related, with heavy traces of marketing hype and that peculiar smell of "too good to be true". What happened to actual business and economies that just decide to pay in Bitcoin? For me, convincing even 1 client to start paying in Bitcoin was a huge personal success.
We've got quite a few micro economies in this forum alone, signature campaigns being the most obvious, but I was expecting back in 2016 to have by now a whole network of Bitcoin earners - distinguished from other workers only by our currency of income. Remote workers I thought would have been clawing to get at Bitcoin, but they still seem to prefer the more cumbersome Paypal or similar.
3 years later, I still find it's a very small pool of people, and many have left because of this mythical bear that keeps swiping at us.
