Quote: (12-12-2017 05:06 PM)Blancpain Wrote:
We will see the real value of bitcoin when reputable banks start accepting it as a deposit. It will take sometime for the regulation laws to pass as we are ruled by 50-60 year old bureaucrats.
Right now everything is a speculation.
But here are some basic metrics,.
Total value of all the gold mined so far = 7 trillion $
Total value of all cryptocurrencies = $300bn.
Total value of physical money = 31 trillion
Total wealth of the world = 250 trillion usd(Credit suisee wealth report)
Imagine cryptocurrency like a stock market, there are hundreds of coins. The ranking might change next year, bitcoin might crash, ether might go up.
Just like the potential supply of paper currencies that be created is infinite, the number of cryptocurrencies that can be created is also infinite, as well as the supply of coins they can each provide altogether. If I had to bet I would say the bulk of the money will ultimately flow into nationalized cryptocoins once they are created. The fallout from the next crash in existing cryptocurrencies will probably lead to them becoming overegulated or banned in some non-western nations which will take away their original appeal. The decentralized coins like bitcoin or others will still exist and be a way of conducting peer to peer business kind of like cash businesses did in the past. But I think the dreams of all the money in the world flowing into them in the near future are ludicrous. This coming from someone who has no stake in cryptos going up or down.