Bitcoin Forum

Bitcoin has been on a constant decline in value ever since 2018 started. Most say it has been a result of government regulations, others say that whales are manipulating the market, and some say that it's the result of FUD within the cryptocurrency markets. However, given that Bitcoin was designed to be scarce or limited in supply, it could become much more valuable in the future.

Nevertheless, do you think Bitcoin will hit a trillion-dollar marketcap in the future? How far do you think this is from becoming a reality? I would like to know your thoughts about this. :)

no it hasn't been.
the main bulk of the decline happened during December last year and continued until February (3 months) and basically ever since June, drop has not been happening. we have been stuck at the bottom which is around $6k.

it is mainly the result of the $20k bubble burst followed by FUD, panic and manipulation.

it will become more valuable in the future because it has limited supply and it is useful so its adoption (aka demand) is increasing, otherwise having limited supply means nothing without an increasing demand. that is why bitcoin is rising while other altcoins with similar design are falling.

why use market cap? why not just talk about price which has actual meaning?
you are talking about a price around $55,000, you see now it has a much better meaning than $1 trillion market cap. and it will happen in 2020 tops and it is possible that it happens mid 2019.

The current time of the present, the Bitcoin value of the highest peak achieved in the amount of copper is present in the market. If the key value of the Bitcoin value at that time, we think in just five years, the total amount of Bitcoin values will receive a different dollar amount. Although Bitcoin does not currently compete in competitive pricing and fixed pricing, Bitcoin may in the future be a direct prefix to dong developments in the future.

It is possible in future but now all the market is red and bitcoin run near $6300 but I think in 2019 it will be possible.

I know there's a lot to happen in the cryptocurrency space, so maybe that is a possibility. Crypto currencies are still young and there's more to improve.

Yes we will hit 1 trillion sure as the sun is coming up tomorrow.  I won't be surprised if we hit 1 trillion by the end of the year.  It all depends when the regulators let us off the hook and let things run. 

I'm not sure about Bitcoin (and every other coins), but I believe that whole coinmarket will reach caps much more than 1.000.000.000.000$ in middle-term. So, don't keep all your capitals in BTC, don't forget about altcoins too.

A Trillion Dollar market cap is easily achievable if large Stock Markets allow Bitcoin to be traded as a Commodity or even if one of the large ecommerce sites starts to accept Bitcoin as a payment option. <Example : eBay / Amazon>

One Killer application can even push us into a Trillion Dollar market cap, under the right circumstances or if one of the large franchise like Mc Donalds or KFC start to accept Bitcoin as a payment method.  ;D

no one cares about market cap
anyone can make a 1trillion cap coin. buy just 1 coin for $5 and instantly have a $5trillion cap. with only an investment of $5
in short. anyone can create a $5trillion cap market for just 5 decent loaves of american bread

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"constant decline in value"!??

um no
you mean price. and even then its not been constant decline..

if you just cut away hype TEMPORARY event of november 12th-february 5th
as those prices were just hyp/bubble/speculation prices in that period.

and treat it as the anomily it is..

and the just draw a line straight across from november 12th february 5th you will see a much different picture.

stop standing at the very peak of mount everest looking down as if everyone should be living at the peak and everyone should worry about falling off..
instead realise everyone lives at ground level and looks up.

value is hidden at the bottom/groundlvel. and then things like specupation/motion/profiterinig goes ontop.

now. do some maths on cost of mining. you will start to se my point about ground level. ...
then overlay the cost of mining and you will see some correlation..

now ignore all price chart trends anals..
use the hashrate chart instead and draw some predictive lines of future direction..
pick a date on that line and do the mining costs calculations on it. and you will see the bottomlin value bitcoin might be at that time.

no one can predict the highs. or when the next ATH PRICE will be.. but some can if done well look at where the new lows(value) could sit in the future

commodity??!  a commodity is a raw material used to create other products
oill=car fuel/plastic
wheat=bread/cereal
gold=electronics/jewellery

i hope you mean ASSET (forex currencies, stocks, shares, property)

there are a lot of possibilities that will happen, maybe now it's experiencing a decline in 2018, but everything can happen in the future, maybe bitcoin will be better

why would you even doubt that?
usually all the discussions and lack of agreement is about timing of it. for example someone says bitcoin will reach $50k-$60k ($1 trillion market cap which nobody cares about MC) by the end of the year and someone else says by the end of 2019 and ... but they all agree that price is rising up and it is just a start.

bitcoin adoption has not yet reached its childhood stage let alone maturity. with adoption growing and the supply still being scarce, the price will continue to go up. unless you think adoption is not going to grow as the reason for your doubt in which case I would like to know why you think that?

I don't know about bitcoin,but the entire cryptocurrency industry might hit a 1 trillion dollar market cap after a few years(if the government regulations in the big countries are not so strict and it the mass crypto adoption expands more).Nowever,I don't believe that bitcoin will ever reach the 1 trillion USD market cap.

Will Bitcoin reach the trillion marketcap in the future?

yes, because there are so many possibilities that will occur, maybe Bitcoin is now experiencing a significant decline in 2018, but everything can happen in the future, maybe bitcoin will get better and maybe even reach a trillion marketcap even more.

It definitely will, nobody is telling you when though.

Bitcoin was at a Trillion dollar market cap YEARS ago, the rest of the world just hasn't clued into it yet...

Yeah this is possible because market is tough and once it will bounce back it will continue to go bounce back and this would be the best thing that will going o happen on cryptocurrency. Same its future full of ups and down and at the same time for huge profit also in the near future.

Actually, it is very hard to predict what will be the value of it in the future but there is a biggest chances and possibilities that it can be much successful in the future because of the continuously demanding of it by the people all over the world. There are so huge of people that is keeping supporting to it and it's counting until this moment. It is so very amazing when it reach the trillion dollar marketcap in the future and maybe it will happen because like others always said that nothing is impossible in this world so let's wait for that time.

I am sure that the glitz of past investments will be repeated in the future. I don't know when or how long it will take, perhaps more than expected. But it will be.

we are already on the rise. it doesn't look like it at this point because you the price shooting up every couple of days but this is the ground floor of the rises to come. and the prices like $50k are nothing for bitcoin really. by the end of this year we should be above $12k because that is the value of bitcoin by then and by the end of 2019 value of bitcoin is going to be at least $35k and these are only the bottom prices that bitcoin should hit. realistically speaking price is always higher than these minimums.

It's been around $6k, but I believe that it's still a drop compared to last year's ATH. Perhaps, by the end of the year, we would be able to see Bitcoin reach $10k, but it will all depend on the level of demand it would experience during the upcoming months. The approval of the Bitcoin ETF might save it, but if it gets rejected by the SEC, then another decline in price might occur. Nonetheless, the future looks bright for Bitcoin as it reaches a valuation of $55k and above.



Yes. That's the usual behavior of the crypto market, and Bitcoin is the most negatively impacted cryptocurrency out there (since it's the leading cryptocurrency in the world). However, every time there's positive news from governments, latest Bitcoin developments, and more, the price of the pioneer cryptocurrency starts to rise. Given the huge volatility out there, it's survival of the fittest. :D



Agree. Bitcoin has true uses for the mainstream world, and it's limited by design. Even if other altcoins have managed to stay ahead in terms of speeds and low costs, Bitcoin is still the leader since it's trusted by many people worldwide. Every cryptocurrency depends on Bitcoin to grow in the mainstream world. Hence, if Bitcoin falls in price, other alts fall too because they're dependent on it. Probably by the next BTC halving, we would be able to see higher prices than usual. ;)



I believe that it's much better to speculate on Bitcoin's future market cap, than its pricing as it's a very volatile cryptocurrency. There's no doubt that it will reach a Trillion Dollar market cap, but the real question is when that will really happen. No one can answer this, because Bitcoin's valuation is uncertain, but with real demand and serious investors joining in the fun, it could reach a Trillion Dollar market cap and beyond. :)



That's certainly true, mate. Mainstream businesses and stock markets would need to adopt Bitcoin before it could reach higher prices than its last ATH. I would be surprised to see if a fast food restaurant such as KFC or Burger King accept Bitcoin for payments. It would certainly bring a lot of attention to people in the mainstream world as they become curious to know what Bitcoin does and what benefit it gives to them. After that, you'll see demand rising across the cryptocurrency market, since everyone would love to own a piece of the cake (in this case Bitcoin).

However, this may take a few years before it becomes a reality since Bitcoin is not ready yet to handle all of the world's payments. With the Lightning Network, you could expect these things to happen and much more. ::)

Billions of dollars? I think you have been thinking too far. Bitcoin is not even back to last year's price - the highest price. Even the Bitcoin price is about $ 50,000 I have not imagined.
Bitcoin prices will be high, this is what investors want, but not so high. Do you know the negative impact on the price of a currency?
If possible, I wish Bitcoin was somewhere around $ 100,000, that's my dream. $ 1 billion is too far away.

It is very possible of course. The current market cap is just about 230 billion dollars and Bitcoin already holds over 45% of it which could be over 100 Billion dollars. If Bitcoin increases by 1000% which is still very possible in future, then it will hit a trillion market cap.

bitcoin doesn't need "saving", specially by something such as a centralized and limited to one country ETF issued in US!
in my opinion ETF is just going to be a short term drama, whether it is accepted or rejected.

well market cap is Price * Supply. and supply is increasing with a fixed rate so if price is volatile market cap is also volatile so your reasoning is not good enough.

I doubt that it will happen faster i guess it will take more time as the price is having a huge price correction and is in decline since the start of the year because of some whales selling their crypto's and cashing out and some group of cartels manipulating the price through exchanges and hacks they hide it. Plus regulations from countries.

whatever happens, whatever obstacles remain in the spirit of crypto, mining, and always optimism, warm greetings

According to market analysis, the supply of bitcoin will get decrease by 2020 and due to shortage in supply, it is expected that bitcoin will hit more than a trillion dollar market cap.
That's the reason why traders estimate the price of bitcoin will hit $100k in 2021 and i am sure we will see that day

Definitely the market is recovering today but eventhough it will rising up, trillion dollar market cap will not be reached in this year. Maybe because we are just suffering the beginning of the bull run and the price standby on 6900 to 7k dollars. Therefore, it takes few more days or weeks before bull run starts and the year has come to end.

apparently not, if it refers to the total supply and also the amount of economy in the bitcoin community, the total marketcap will not reach trillions of dollars, maybe only half of it is 1 trillion
it would be better if we just wait, what will happen in the next 3 years, because soon bitcoin will soon shake the world

We are researchers and owns Bitcoin. Of course we have to hope that the price of Bitcoin can be much higher, which will benefit us. However, I think Bitcoin can only go up to $ 1 million. You think, the price on the market depends on the supply-demand, you think who will buy Bitcoin for $ 1 billion?

Bitcoin is not decreasing in 2018, there is no way up's and down will not happen in the market but I don't think has really affect much this year, btc has started increasing and i believe it will go higher to 55k by or before 2021

every thing is possible in the crypto as i was watching crypto for more than six months now i realize that bitcoin market is growing and it's volume is good enough while it will achieve a trillion dollar market cap.

Bitcoins reaching trillion dollars is possible but it really takes a lot of time for that to happen since the market is always volatile and you will never determine when it was going to pump or dump.

If given no time constraints, it will happen without a doubt some time in the future. Whether this be a few years or perhaps even a few decades though, no one knows.

It's really just a matter of time, to be honest.

The logic behind this is simple. Growing adoption + depreciation of fiat will lead to prices continually going up in the long run without fail. There may not even be many bullish events that lead to a trillion dollar market cap. Though, if such high prices are reflective of the fact that fiat has inflated beyond imagination, the "real" value (as opposed to nominal) of each bitcoin may not necessarily change or appreciate as much as its nominal value.

Without a doubt it will hit 1 trillion. Bitcoin or the Crypto currency market never reached a marketcap above 1 Trillion. When the dotcom bubble was bursting, the new economy market has reached 10 trillion. We are so early days, we didn‘t even start to cross the casm if that term says something to. Otherwise research it.

Hitting 1 trillion is possible but that will be after 10 to 20 years before it will happen since the highest price of bitcoins today is just $19k dollars in the market.

By the time Bitcoin's total supply touches 18 million (which will happen in the next 14'ish months), the price "only" needs to reach ~$55,555 in order to touch a $1 trillion market cap.

I'm pretty confident that we'll get it done within five years as the next crazy ass bull run will surely offer a helping hand. But as always, Bitcoin reaching x levels isn't a problem; the main obstacle always is maintaining higher price levels for a longer period of time. Bitcoin always corrects with 75% on average after every x10/20 bull run, so we'll have to see if institutional capital will help to significantly reduce these post bull run corrections.

Either way, accumulate as many coins as possible on the way down right now, and you'll be a whole lot more excited when we do hit that $1 trillion milestone. ;)

I believe it can definitely, I mean we know that hitting trillion dollar marketcap for all coins together is not a surprise it can be done with a bull run however bitcoin itself hitting would be a real newsworthy big deal.

I think back when all cryptocurrency market hit the one trillion market the world was not prepared for it, when it happens next the world will be watching, back than most people just either "heard about it" or "checked it out" but none of them were really "in the market" this time around when that happens there will be more eyes on the prices and if bitcoin hits one trillion than I doubt the drop could be as fast as this time around.

I'd say that it's neither of any of the options.

While perhaps some government restrictions placed on bitcoin and third party bitcoin services are contributing to the bear market, they are not the root cause. I believe that a bear market was simply imminent, and was only a matter of time before it happened, because of the fact that markets rose so much during 2017 that it was becoming unsustainable. Thus, a period of corrections and dips were only natural, and this has been seen countless times before.


It's going to happen sooner or later. People tend to write this off as some kind of far sighted prophecy, but it really is not. We've seen a market cap that was around 30-40% of that figure already last year, so it's closer than people think.

With a limited supply and growing adoption that we've seen that will continue well into the next decades, bitcoin is bound to be more valuable in the long run. It's simple economics, supply of bitcoin isn't going to get much bigger since it is emitted in a limited manner, while the demand of coins will go up over time as more merchants accept it for payments. That's not to mention the imminent inflation that will debase the value of fiat as well, which would mean that when bitcoin is traded in relation to fiat, its value will rise in the long run, at least theoretically speaking.

I do agree with this mostly, but we can't completely bank on a potential scenario where people are using their coins as currency, especially with how the volatile nature of this market won't just miraculously disappear.

What we can bank on is that Bitcoin will become a digital form of gold, and where gold doesn't need any use as actual currency, so will Bitcoin not need to be used as such, especially with fiat improving too.

In other words, the currency aspect will become a bonus on top of the store and cross-country-transfer of value utility. Gold can't do that conveniently, Bitcoin can and this will account for most of Bitcoin's demand.

Yeah that might happen, imagine if the number of bitcoin users is not too big right now, but the marketcap has reached hundreds of billions of dollars, of course if everyone in the world that is very likely to adopt bitcoin, of course marketcap will reach trillions of dollars

Yes, you just mentioned on why its possible to hit higher market cap in the future.

I think we're going there nearly year by year. There are good news that are coming but it has been ignored due to the media manipulation but if its about the bad news, they are spreading it quickly. Others will say and won't consider that we're going there but that's the reality, early years people won't even think of it that bitcoin will hit $20,000 but it actually did.

If the market can kill 80% of the altcoin, then Bitcoin can reach the market value of trillions of dollars, because when other altcoins die, bitcoin will become more precious!

bitcoin market cap which is basically its price rising and nothing more, is not rising because altcoins die and it is not no-rising if they don't die!
altcoins exist in a parallel market that is used for higher risk speculation and profit making and not much else. which means with or without them bitcoin will continue to grow. it can reach $50k-$100k and more prices and altcoins still be the same pump and dumps with more or less the same size.

Well, you have a point I like your thought. Bitcoin will remain bitcoin nothing will change even how many altcoins emerging every now and then. And those price movement of altcoins were swinging to the price of Bitcoin, so there is a high chance that crypto will never die and lead by bitcoin that surely it will exist.
And that price trillion dollars marketcap will possible to be reached near in the future. (IMO)

Bitcion hitting one trillion dollars in the future is very real and one day this thread will remind  us that we have one day desire to get to that level. The current marketcap of below two hundred dollars will be a thing of the past and we should be able to come out of that very soon.

If I rate your post, that can happen. Bitcoin will achieve a market capitalization of one trillion dollars in the future, but can't we know in what year?
I think in 2018 starting from January to August, yesterday decreased, but in September I saw that it was starting to increase, there were still 3 more months to undergo market price movements. I personally still remain patient to do this job.

As a trusted financial system, Bitcoin currently has a variety of extraordinary attractions, which is why Bitcoin has a very high level of fluctuations and it is greatly influenced by price manipulation by some people or groups that have a large amount of money . Looking at the available data, I feel more suspicious of manipulators because they have a tremendous impact on Bitcoin price movements.

In the future Bitcoin will have tremendous strength in the global financial system. So it is therefore not impossible that Bitcoin will reach a trillion dollar marketcap. We will face the digital era and Bitcoin is the first step towards that.

Hitting of trillion dollar is possible but it surely will take a very long time, maybe like 10years time  ;D. Looking at the forex market with all the fiat being traded, we know we are still at trillion. So, it is going to be a big task for bitcoin where cryptos itself is at 237billion plus at the moment.


Not at all , the demise of shitcoins won't increase the value of bitcoin or decrease it. It can only affect the total market cap of cryptocurrency and not bitcoin.

You sure need to heighten you patients in doing this kind of job and at the movement of the price right now many are having a difficult time thinking when will we see a price increase? But hey it can be around the corner of this year or we can even see a downfall again who knows? But maybe we can see a marketcap of one trillion in the future because I really think we still have a lot more of waiting to do before we can reach the last block to be mine and a lot may still happen regarding the price of bitcoin it will not surely go to nothing but we can see a still increasing market as the years past.

Yeah, we are really getting closer as we keep moving on. One thing for sure now is that we are not where we used to be and in just this short term and even with very little adoption, we still have been able to hit up to a quarter of a trillion dollar market, then I believe it is something we will get to see when more adoption kicks in.

Development keeps coming year in year out and people keep seeing the need to be a part of the space, as this moment keeps going on like that, we will get to see the market soaring higher than before and the likelihood of seeing a bigger market in terms of capitalization.

I'm not sure about this, I think altcoins dying would help with Bitcoins market cap. Investors will sell their altcoins and allocate their holdings into Bitcoin as a safe haven. A lot of people in the crypto space wouldn't just leave the entire market if their altcoin dies, they would just take their money and put it into the only coin that matters. If BCH where to disappear, a significant % of the money in BCH would come back to Bitcoin and only a small percent would likely leave the market entirely. This is the reason why I believe altcoins dying would help BTC's price and market cap.

Agree. The one thing that would greatly contribute towards the massive price rise within the future, would be the scarcity inherent within Bitcoin's supply. Satoshi designed it in a way that it remains a deflationary cryptocurrency, while at the same time being limitless (as Bitcoin is divisible to 8 units). While at current times, Bitcoin is not even close to reaching a trillion-dollar market cap, it will be in the future as demand grows along with it. People will begin to see Bitcoin as the next successor of Gold, hence they'll start to massively invest into it.

Once Bitcoin reaches a trillion-dollar market cap, then other altcoins would've reached values that were never imagined. They’ll quickly capture Bitcoin's price movement in the market, so if Bitcoin becomes extremely valuable, altcoins will do so too. As fiat currency (like the US Dollar) becomes inflated over time, Bitcoin will become scarcer over time, which means that you'll get more spending power in the future if you just hodl your coins in your wallet.

I'm sure that many early Bitcoin adopters who got in now when prices had been on a downfall, will greatly benefit in the future with the next bull market run. Just my opinion :)

I can imagine what it would be like when bigger institutions start stepping in and they are beginning to take the piece of the global cake which is what I believe would be the case in the long run, let alone, when we end up hitting the level of mainstream adoption and the real life usage of bitcoin hits some maximal level than what we have now. The thing is that this market sure have the potentials of hitting a trillion dollar market in coming years and that I am hopeful for.

Agree. This could probably happen in the future, as Bitcoin advances in terms of development and mainstream adoption. Serious businesses and companies would become interested in owning a share of Bitcoin's supply, for long term investments. Once the Lightning Network, and several other improvements come into effect, then expect for Bitcoin's market capitalization to become worth trillions of dollars or more in the future.

Since Bitcoin has been the cryptocurrency which brought blockchain technology to the world, everyone would pay close attention to its development over time. As such, if Bitcoin manages to scale successfully to a large mass, then there would be no need to look any further as it'll become the standard cryptocurrency of the Internet. Therefore, people who get into Bitcoin now while the market is on a bull run, would probably become millionaires in the future when the pioneer cryptocurrency's market cap reaches a new ATH. Just my thoughts ;D

I seriously believe that bitcoin is going to hit 1 trillion dollars one day in market capitalization.  I also believe that we are still at the early stages of cryptocurrencies development. If we keep moving the ways it has been we are going to hit trillions in around 5 to 8years to come.  I know many people that have said good things about cryptocurrencies and those things are going to come to pass one of this days.

Of course it will. It will very likely hit a trillion dollar market cap in 2020. In fact I think it is very possible it will hit 2 trillion in 2020 at the height of the next bitcoin boom.

Bitcoin itself and the crypto market are two very different stuff to compare. Bitcoin is about $6-$7k right now and has a marketcap of 120 billion dollars, which means if the price of bitcoin increases about 8 times it will reach 1 trillion dollar in price and that is about $55k or so in price.

This is definitely possible for bitcoin, it is not that unlikely that dollar value will go down with time (inflation) as well and bitcoin always gains value over long periods of time (even tho 2018 was bad, look at what it was last year and now) so I can definitely see bitcoin price reaching about 55-60 thousand dollar levels one day, it may not be tomorrow of course but in a span of 5-10 years it looks like quite achievable price.

However, if we were to talk about the crypto market in general its already over 200 billion dollars and just needs to hit 5 times bigger to reach to a trillion dollars which I believe will be quite easy to achieve, new money keeps pouring in and the value of altcoins can skyrocket much easier than bitcoin.

I believe that with some inferior altcoins dying in a bear market, the price of Bitcoin will be raised again in two years!

It will be more than trillion dollars in the future, because people are going to put their money in bitcoin as they know the importance and benefits of it. When there is no other currency in the market in the future, there would be no need to price it with dollar or any other currency. It will be new world order. One world and one currency and no other currency will be usable in the whole world.

While a market cap of 1 trillion seems to be very high the truth is that the price of bitcoin would have to be something close to 60000 which is not really unrealistic if you ask me, the only thing that you need to ask yourself is when you are expecting that? If you are willing to wait up to a decade to see that market cap then I will say that the chances of seeing it are very good.

Yes. There's a positive outcome in cryptocurrencies and the whole blockchain ecosystem, as they improve over time. Bitcoin has been the one project that's been the most successful and actively developed today, which means that in the future, it'll become stronger in its technical aspects and user adoption. As such, the next step for Bitcoin to rise in usage and adoption, would be to implement a scalable solution for the masses. This will be achieved with the Lightning Network, as Bitcoin heads to new ATHs.

Nonetheless, for Bitcoin to reach a Trillion-dollar market cap, it would take a couple of years from now. Unless, there's a huge bull market like last year, then the time for Bitcoin to reach such goal would be less. Without a doubt, Bitcoin will reach that goal and beyond as it makes many early adopters millionaires. Just my thoughts ;D

Either bitcoin hits a trillion dollar market cap in the next 3 years or it never will. You don't understand it if you think it has a decade to do that.

Bitcoin may stay at the same price around $6k and $7k and not move any cent out of those levels for the next 20 years and still become very big in 5 years without moving during that 5 years. There is no rush and there is no need for bitcoin to go up or go down and do anything. Why would it "have to" move in 3 years or it will cease to exists ? It makes no sense.

Obviously, if you see bitcoin as something that would make you more fiat than you get in, than of course you won't be happy about a currency that stays the same for years however not everyone uses bitcoin for the same reason. There are a lot more reasons people use bitcoin aside from "put fiat in, get btc, pull more fiat out".

I'm not so sure if it's a fantastic achievement to actually become a fiat millionaire with how it keeps losing value. If I at some point want to secure some of the value that I hold in Bitcoin, I will try to buy land or as many properties as I can, and all will be paid for in Bitcoin. I ain't going back to fiat. Selling Bitcoin for fiat is like selling Gold for Copper. Who does that?

The more adoption Bitcoin goes through, and thus the more acceptance there is worldwide, the less incentive there is for people to sell Bitcoin for fiat. People will spend it, and that's how money should be used, because Bitcoin is money at the end of the day.

Why the hurry? Why do you think that bitcoin has such a short time frame to reach that price? Do you think there is going to be a restriction all over the world against bitcoin or something? And even if that is the case what makes you think its price is going to change anything, I would like to hear your answer to that because a decade to me seems like a reasonable range.

I believe the whole BTC market will hit the trillion dollar cap in the future. There are big purchases under the radar which is being done by big players and institutional investors to avoid sudden parabolic rise of BTC price. Those over the counter buyers are just waiting for the right moment before making the big move which will surprise everyone.

That's certainly true, mate. While Bitcoin is money for our day-to-day needs, it's also an investment just like Gold. Many consider the pioneer cryptocurrency as a store of value, simply because it has characteristics which resembles Gold. At some point, Bitcoin needs to be spent just like Cash, because if most people hoard it, then it wouldn't be of benefit to the crypto economy. When there's a lot of interest in acquiring Bitcoin, we see prices rise like skyrocket within a short amount of time. However, that's not the case nowadays as people seem to be more interested in spending and holding their Bitcoins without buying more in the process.

Eventually, Bitcoin would reach over a Trillion-Dollar market cap as institutional investors come into the crypto space. However, in the meantime, it's best to buy Bitcoin while its cheaper, since there's a high probability that it would go past its latest ATH any time soon. Behind the scenes, developers are working their way through making Bitcoin as scalable as possible for the masses. Even with the current downtrend in the whole cryptocurrency market, the blockchain industry has been improving every step of the way.

Therefore, Bitcoin will hit a Trillion-Dollar market cap in the future. But it is just a matter of time when it will happen whenever it'll be next year, or a couple of years from now. Just my opinion :)

Roughly speaking, it will probably pass a trillion in mid-2020, then pass 2 trillion in late 2020. Then drop back below a trillion by early 2021. And in 2022 we'll see stable support above 1 trillion form and a permanent marketcap in the trillions from there on out.

For a one million trillion cap market, there needs to be a lot of investors investing in bitcoins. Also institutional money should move into crypto market. US stock exchange and other big exchanges should take crypto with them and that will be the time when we will see a one trillion dollar market cap.

When Zimbabwe can have a trillion usd note then why not bitcoin reach a trillion market cap? I have no doubt in bitcoin reaching this price in 5 or 50 years. 

Large institutions have not entered the markets yet so the market cap is based on individual holders. When bigger whales join in and compete with one another you can guarantee a trillion dollar market cap

Zimbabwe does not have a trillion USD note, Zimbabwe has a trillion dollar Zimbabwean dollar note, as they are totally two different things and that was because of how bad their economy has been which to me has even gone down the drain.

Also, a trillion dollar note is totally a different ball game when we are talking about a trillion dollar market cap. In this case, we are talking about new money hitting the space and seeing the value of bitcoin grow in abundance of at least x10 from the present market cap which is something that I believe is achievable actually.

A few more years is all it needs and adoption of blockchain products will make it happen. Its going to be a giant market like FOREX market. Blockchain companies cold even be listed on NASDAQ if all these adoption happen. Its going to be big and no one is stopping this technology because even today the banks are starting to develop their own.

   Nice correction, indeed Zimbabwe dollar and US dollar are two different things. 3x2, that`s his username, didn`t notice that mistake. I hope it`s a mistake and not
ignorance.
   Eaglewhite80 I must to make some correction about your comment. Currently it`s like this :
- Market Cap: $209,767,174,491
   Copy/paste from CoinMarketCap. That is a half from x10, it`s x5. It`s more than achievable, it`s a matter of time. Optimistic people believe that next year will be the
one, others believe in 5 years, but all of us believe in that. It`s got to happen.

The market as it is today won't stay as well diversified in the next couple of years. We still have to go through a phase where most of the current projects will not manage to survive.

Another thing is that when the hype around the blockchain slowly starts to fade, everyone suddenly starts to realize how it doesn't actually solve many problems at all, especially not problems databases can't solve.

The world has already seen the real innovation concerning blockchains, which is Bitcoin, Ethereum, and so forth. Most of that what's centralized and backed by corporate entities don't need a blockchain at all.

People might not like what I say, but the truth mostly isn't pretty.

If we look at the long term it might happen right? looking at total of bitcoin users while still arguably only a few percent of the total world population, if the user has been completely covered, of course marketcaps will be very large, it might happen because bitcoin continues to spread

You are really getting yourself confused. Firstly, Zimbabwean dollar has nothing to do with US dollars, and it is just the currency for Zimbabwe alone. Moreover, this only happened because of the decrease in economic value that has hit Zimbabwe over the years as a result of bad economic policies and it is nothing compared to what we are even talking about here. Like they always say, being a legendary member does not really mean anything in this forum as I would not have expected such a post from someone who is learned enough.

I believe a trillion market cap may be possible to come by in the next bull run, but we just have to be patient to wait for it, and in this case with bitcoin doing a multiple of 10, this is something achievable, which will know this is something we will get to see eventually.

It's not impossible. It's about the potential of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is possible to be as high as 100K and above.

What you are looking at actually is the general market cap of the whole market in all, but the OP asked according to the topic, if Bitcoin will hit a trillion dollar market cap.

Currently according to coinmarketcap, bitcoin has a market capitalization of $112,320,160,729, so at the end for bitcoin to be able to achieve a trillion dollar market cap at the moment, then we are looking at about x9 - x10 or thereabout and in that case, we are looking at about $60,000, imagining the circulating supply is even the same, which we know it is not possible. $60k is achievable in the long term, so I believe it is even possible for Bitcoin alone to achieve such market cap, let alone the whole cryptocurrency market entirely.

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No matter how much market value Bitcoin can reach in the future, its premise must be that it can get more use, rather than being used by investors for hype!

I think this is impossible because for me the more Bitcoin will become more expensive then the more difficult for small time investors to purchase that they will be forced to shift to Altcoins in which much cheaper to purchase for an Crypto investments. We all knows that majority of the Bitcoin investors are mostly simple and small time investors in which if they will gone then for sure Bitcoin real demand will decrease.

Trillon dollars market price is good to see and if that happen the pric e of the bitcoin increase like more than 50k dollars.
But for now we are far from that market price because we have hundreds billions dollars market cap.

Obviously, as you would not just expect it to start growing overnight without new moneys coming in. Hitting a trillion dollar market to me is going to be easy, at least we hit over 300 billion in market cap in the last bull run before we saw the market get dumped and we are in at least, a division of 10 to the trillion at the moment.

With new money setting in, with a lot of the market growing hugely and with more coins even hitting the crypto street, this would be an easy thing to attain. The market cap will most definitely grow once we start seeing recovery in the market, and attaining trillions of USD in market cap is not something that is impossible.

Agree. Institutional investors would make a big hit towards Bitcoin's growth in price and mainstream adoption. The acceptance of a Bitcoin ETF from the SEC would contribute towards its price in the long term, since serious investors would get easy access to the world of cryptocurrencies. For Bitcoin to reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap and beyond, there needs to be a lot of demand from people in the mainstream world.

At its current state, people are mostly selling Bitcoin due to FUD from mainstream media, and the reaction of governments against cryptocurrencies. However, once Bitcoin starts becoming recognized as a legitimate cryptocurrency in all countries of the world, it'll rise no matter what. Behind the scenes, Bitcoin is being actively developed to solve the scalability dilemma for the greater good. Once people realize that Bitcoin is scalable, then demand would rise as fees and transaction speeds are kept to a minimum. This is the key towards mainstream adoption, which is why many are anticipating the stable launch of the Lightning Network, to use Bitcoin more thoroughly.

In the end, Bitcoin will reach more than a Trillion-Dollar market cap. However, it's only a matter of time before this happens, causing many early adopters to become wealthy. Just my opinion :)

Bitcoin marketcap will exceed $1 trillion by the year 2021. There is such a tiny chance that that dont happen.

Exactly, and for bitcoin to be as high as $100k, with the increase in circulating supply as more coins are mined daily, this is something that I so much believe will be quite possible in the long run.

Bitcoin has shown signs of strength over the years and we know that even with some level of mass adoption and for the fact that a chance for a bull run could even happen in the next few years where we might get to see as high as $100k and even above, a trillion dollar market cap will be an easy one to achieve. Let's see how things will turn out in the next couple of years, with mainstream adoption as well and then we will see.

In fact the figure for the current time is too much high, I think that it can only e possible after decade or so, at that time we are expecting the price closed to 100k. I think that it will also put a good impact on the market cap if big institution will enter the market.

Probably. No one knows for sure if Bitcoin will become highly valuable within a couple of years or not. Based on previous predictions, Bitcoin hasn't even reached $25,000 during the year. This means that it may take more time for Bitcoin to rise in price than we've ever imagined. Bitcoin has maintained its price levels between $6,400 to $6,550 which means that it's relatively stable nowadays. However, if by next year prices start to rise just like past year, then a Trillion-Dollar market cap would become a reality sooner than we've expected.

As such, it's only a matter of time before Bitcoin reaches new ATHs that were never seen before. The key here is to have patience and don't panic sell, as it would negatively affect Bitcoin's valuation over the short term. If many people would've been patient by now, Bitcoin prices would've been rising slowly but surely. However, without a doubt, sooner or later Bitcoin will reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap once institutional investors come into play.

Nevertheless, it's advised to keep hodling until prices hit the moon again. Just my thoughts ;D

That's likely to happen because each year, bitcoin's adaptation rate is significantly increasing. The more adapters and investors join in, the bigger its market cap will go and that's only in the hands of time where we are able to see a 13-digit market cap of bitcoin.

Definitely bitcoin is going to hit a trillion dollars market cap  in some years to come and I think in a short time from now that is going to happen. Many of us here did not believe that bitcoin is going to get to were it is now in January last year but we can see were we were today.  I believe that a day is coming when we would see the current price as were bitcoin started.

Agree. Eventually, Bitcoin will experience a Trillion-Dollar market cap as adoption and popularity grows over time. The real question is when it will happen, since Bitcoin has been on a constant downfall since the beginning of the year. It's important to remain patient and hodl your Bitcoin, as its price would increase over time because of its limited supply. The recent bull market is probably because newbies and whales are constantly dumping their Bitcoin.

Which is why, I believe that it would take quite some time before we could experience a Trillion-Dollar market cap. Behind the scenes, Bitcoin's Lightning Network is progressing to become a stable scalable solution for the masses. Once it's proven to be efficient and secure, Bitcoin could reach greater adoption within the mainstream world like never before.

Nevertheless, it would be surprising to see Bitcoin's market cap reach higher than One Trillion Dollars (Quadrillion-Dollar market cap?) in the future. By then, many early Bitcoin adopters now would've become extremely wealthy. Just my thoughts ;D

Why not nothing is impossible to a trillion market cap because crypto market will be increase more in the future and I think that time there's a many cryptocians will be invest and do great profits.

actually this is too far if done with theory, but in crypto nothing is actually impossible. I think this will really happen in quite a long time like Bitcoin has just been born and is heading for a trip to the highest peak at the end of 2017 to 2018

There's nothing stopping Bitcoin from reaching a Trillion-Dollar market cap anytime soon. However, the time for this to happen might take longer than we’ve expected since Bitcoin has stalled in price across many cryptocurrency exchanges. This year, price movements have been quite slow, and many people are panic selling their Bitcoin. For us to see a real change in Bitcoin's price, there needs to be a lot of demand from institutional investors and companies. I believe that after the Lightning Network becomes stable enough for the public, Bitcoin will get that boost it deserves in price.

Also, the next halving event in 2020 might contribute to higher prices within the future. The most important thing is that we hodl onto our Bitcoins until prices start to skyrocket again. Within any point in time, prices will rise to unprecedented levels like last year. Therefore, knowing that Bitcoin will reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap, should encourage us to buy more Bitcoin while it's cheap to preserve profits in the future. Just my thoughts ;D

For a market that is growing every day, at this stage, I really would not doubt anything actually. We all know quite alright that no one would have thought that bitcoin is actually going to be in this current market cap pretty soon and we all saw how it moved pretty huge last year, so there is actually nothing that is impossible as far as this market is concerned. For what it is worth, the market is growing and we will get to see more adoption in the long run, coupled with some good level of usage and when we put all these together, it all amounts to one thing, which is growth in value, and as the value increase, and the circulating supply increases, so will the market cap increase as well.

It is not too far at all, and I am sure if you had taken your time to go through the thread you must have seen the analogy a lot of people have given already and the price it would take for bitcoin to hit a trillion dollar market cap, if we even assume the circulating supply to stay the same will be more like $50k.

$50k is actually not something we cannot say bitcoin will not have the chance or possibility of hitting in the long run. Sure, we cannot tell what the future holds, but considering that adoption is even still pretty low and we will have more adoption in the long run, trillion dollar market cap is one easy thing to hit.

I don’t know if you are going to see this reply because you replied a long time ago, but that’s simply not true. You would create that market cap if you bought one trillion coins for that price, not just one.

If it was in the stock market, it would be like that. You can't just buy a share of a crap company for 5$ and make it a 5 trillion market cap company, and I suppose there are some differences between the crypto and the stock market but I’m sure it’s not that different.

Yes there is a chance for that but it will take long long time to reach this.  Now the values of bitcoin is very low just use this chance to buy more bitcoin and hold it for future. In future means many years it will take the price will incease this trillion dollar. You will wait for this value with patience.

I think trillion is really at our grips right now, I know we are at 110 million or so in cap but the price needs to be just about 60 thousand dollars to reach the one trillion marketcap and that is definitely not impossible to reach. I know it will take a lot of time to reach there but it certainly will thanks to both increasing difficulties, halving mining and the dollar devaluation. Combining all of that results with bitcoin getting higher and higher every year. I know it may seem like bitcoin was on the downturn this year but if you check the yearly lowest points this year has been the highest in history. I think reaching 60 thousand dollars will not be a problem at all when the banks and investment firms decide to pour their billions of dollars into crypto space.

Agree. It's hoped that Bitcoin would continue to increase in mainstream adoption over time, causing a positive uptrend in price. For Bitcoin to hit a Trillion-Dollar market cap, it would need to reach a price of ~$50,000. Considering how fast it rose in price during the last year, Bitcoin could easily reach $50k and above. With the many predictions that have been stated by many experts about Bitcoin, it seems that it will reach far beyond a Trillion-Dollar market cap.

Imagine each Bitcoin being worth $1,000,000 in the future. By then, its market cap will be near the Quadrillion-Dollar valuation meaning that it has reached mainstream adoption at a large scale. During that time, we would be dealing with Satoshis of a Bitcoin, since the price will be too high. However, for all this to happen, it might take a couple of years from now.

Therefore, in the meantime, all we could do is to buy and hold Bitcoin before it reaches a market cap of $1 Trillion and above. Just my thoughts ;D

This is even more like asking if it is possible for bitcoin to attain at least as much as $55000 to $60000 in the long run from the current market price, which to me is something that is very realistic as I even believe we will get to achieve more than that in the future and even with huge mass adoption, it will be far more than a trillion dollar market cap.

The great potential is there, we have not even started seeing real life usage to its optimal level alone and with speculation, bitcoin is currently over a 100billion dollar market cap. It is just a little away to achieving trillion which can easily happen even in the next few couple of years.

I believe that Bitcoin has chance to reach the trillion dollar level and step over it. In fact, it is not such a big number. It is enough to wait 5 years i think.

While no one knows for certainty when Bitcoin will reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap, there's no doubt that the cryptocurrency will rise in value over time due to its deflationary design. It's just like Gold, where it's finite, but at the same time, it can be used as a safe-haven asset for the long term. Given how popular Bitcoin has become during the past year, its price rose to unprecedented levels. It should only be a matter of time before the same thing happens again right after the market settles.

No matter how hard governments try to crackdown on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, they wouldn't have success because of the decentralized model of most cryptocurrencies. For that reason, cryptocurrencies will become unstoppable and bigger over time, as people demand them for their daily lives. Once there's a high level of demand, then Bitcoin will reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap, while the rest of the altcoins on the market will rise as well.

Therefore, we may not be far from seeing Bitcoin being worth more than $60k with a Trillion-Dollar market cap. Just my opinion :)

it might be difficult to happen because the current condition of bitcoin prices for bitcoin demand has started to decrease so you should be careful when you want to buy bitcoin.

If it was in the stock market, it would be like that. You can't just buy a share of a crap company for 10$ and make it a 6 trillion market cap company, and I suppose there are some differences between the crypto and the stock market but I’m sure it’s not that different.

as time goes by maybe it could happen because as we know from the beginning of its launch the price movement of bitcoin until now has experienced many developments. it is possible that bitcoin can be very valuable in the future but requires a long time.

Yes i believe that is very probable because bitcoin's adaptation rate is increasing almost every month as more and more startups are talking about cryptos and bitcoin. Big companies who already adapted bitcoin can also be a good example for others to follow.

Many people who still consider cryptocurrency is a threat, fraud or a place that must be avoided by many people. And honestly, people who don't like cryptocurrency are those who have a big influence on those who want to use cryptocurrency, we still have some governments that will fight cryptocurrency. One thing that is unlikely to be achieved by bitcoin is to have a high price if there are still some parties that will continue to make bitcoin undeveloped, and 5 years is too short a time to make them like bitcoin.

It may not look like bitcoin is getting a traction in the crypto market but then behind the scenes, some companies are slowly getting engage and adopting cryptocurrency because they can see that it would be valuable in the future. It would be better if they would engage when it is not that hot topic because by the time the price gets better then they would be celebrating with us and those that are just buying would have a little profit. A trillion dollar is possible because why not? Bitcoin always surprise us.

it seems very hard because bitcoin does not have good news that can trigger to be able to increase the volume as much as it has to have good news and developments, if you just look at it from the influence of supply it can't guarantee.

Op is asking about future not now.
No body knew that btc will explode in 2017 and will surpass 10k usd mark.
I hope btc can make trillion usd marketcap.

Bitcoin may have stalled in price, but it continues to develop it's second-layer scalability solution (Lightning Network) for the masses. While many people have been panic selling their Bitcoin due to mainstream FUD, the pioneer cryptocurrency's developers have been working hard on making such scalability solution the most secure and reliable one possible for the Bitcoin network. As such, if it becomes widely adopted by businesses, and companies alike, then people would become interested into acquiring and storing Bitcoin for the long term. After all, the Lightning Network provides many benefits that are too hard to ignore such as instant transactions, extremely low fees, and even atomic swaps (to exchange from one crypto to another without using an exchange).

All of this is coming soon, and if successful, then Bitcoin could reach a new ATH without a doubt. In the meantime, we can enjoy Bitcoin's low prices to buy and hodl it for the future. Perhaps, by next year, Bitcoin will surge in price, becoming closer to a Trillion-Dollar market cap than we've ever expected. However, even if it doesn't happen next year, there's always the subsequent year, and the other until Bitcoin reaches the goal of a Trillion-Dollar market cap.

Nonetheless, with many events that will happen in the future such as the halving, and ETF approvals in the US, Bitcoin could reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap and more. All we need to do is to be patient until that happens so that we could profit. Just my opinion :)

Nothing is impossible, if all people in the world use bitcoin as the most popular money to buy their personal belongings and other things, there is no reason that bitcoin price never hit the top.

Well, nothing is impossible in crypto land. However, prices have been declining across the whole cryptocurrency market ever since the year started. Now it was become worse, as Bitcoin fell below the $5,000 mark. What's left for us is to wait extensively until the time comes for Bitcoin to reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap. However, many people are impatient and would quickly panic sell their coins due to fear that they'll lose all their investment in the long term.

Despite this, there's a possibility that Bitcoin will reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap in the future. But, in the meantime, you could buy more Bitcoin at discounted prices if you have managed to save a lot of money. If prices head back to their original levels, then you would be able to double or even triple your money. Nonetheless, as popularity grows for Bitcoin over time, prices will increase until the valuation of the pioneer cryptocurrency becomes worth a Trillion Dollars and more (possibly a Quadrillion Dollars). Just my thoughts ;D

As of this moment my answer is totally not,this will never hit in this market movement,sitting at $150 billion we are too far from a trillion bucks dude
Though i am pretty sure that this is not impossible for this great community to expect this to happen,but not today and not for a near future im sure

That's certainly true, mate. Current movement in price across the whole cryptocurrency market, would delay Bitcoin's growth in market cap. While it's impossible to predict with certainty how cryptocurrencies would behave, there's no doubt that over time, Bitcoin will become valuable due to its deflationary design. The supply is finite, and every 4 years the block reward is cut by half. This would greatly contribute to Bitcoin's price over the long term.

As such, what we're seeing right now, is only temporary. Of course, it could take years before Bitcoin reaches a Trillion-Dollar market cap. However, it's important to keep in mind that Bitcoin has passed through nearly the same thing back in 2013 when the Mt. Gox exchange was gone. Bitcoin prices reached an ATH of $1,000+, but quickly fell below $300 within a short time frame. Just a couple of years later (in 2017), Bitcoin's prices start to rise again, until it reached unprecedented levels of $20k.

Therefore, I believe that the same thing is happening right now with Bitcoin. It's only a matter of time, before we could experience that Trillion-Dollar market cap in Bitcoin. Just my thoughts ;D

For getting a billion dollar rocket cap, bitcoin has to be promoted throughout the world. There is big potential in taking this thing up but for that we have to sacrifice so much for bitcoin.

Exactly. We may need to do our part to help Bitcoin gain mainstream adoption (effectively causing prices to rise, as well as, its market cap). Because if Bitcoin doesn't serve a real purpose in life, other than being a speculative cryptocurrency, then it'll be difficult for it to gain traction. Real usability contributes to higher prices and demand, which is key towards Bitcoin's success in the long term.

We may not see it now, since this bull market has lasted for almost a whole year now, but there's hope that next year will be better. No matter how long it would take for Bitcoin to reach a Trillion-Dollar market cap, it'll be here to stay. A good thing that Bitcoin has is its unique store of value properties. With its deflationary design (by reducing block reward every 4 years), and limited supply, Bitcoin could very well be the next generation of Gold within the future.

Therefore, it's only a matter of time before Bitcoin gets that boost it deserves once people get back into it with the adoption of the Lightning Network. By then, we'll probably see a market cap higher than a Trillion Dollars if all goes well. Just my thoughts ;D