It is interesting that even if 30,000 NEW adopters a DAY will emerge then it is only 11,000,000 per YEAR ... ( and only 110 millions per 10 YEARS ... what is less than 2% of population )
You are looking at it the wrong way, addoption is exponential not linear. Once bitcoin appears more and more in the news and starts to go mainstream the rate of adoption will accelarate greatly.
As I am sure I dont need to remind you btc is still magic internet money that a few nerds are playing with.
That's a very good point.. .so we could be
conservative and predict something like this (a doubling of the number of new wallets every year):
2014 - 500K new wallets (this is assuming that about 2/3 of the (1.5million per year) new wallets on the blockchain are NOT really new people into BTC - so I am starting with a fairly low number that is approximately 1/3 of the total number of new wallets)
2015 - 1 million new wallets
2016 - 2 million new wallets
2017 - 4 million new wallets
2018 - 8 million new wallets
2019 - 16 million new wallets
2020 - 32 million new wallets
2021 - 64 million new wallets
2022 - 128 million new wallets
2023 - 256 million new wallets
Total in 10 years = 511.5 million which is fairly conservative and a low estimation and still only about 5% of the population - which really leaves considerable more room for growth. If you continue with the projection of doubling for another 10 years, then you would reach saturation around 2026 or 2027.. and growth would have to slow down considerably around that time... b/c you would run out of people... though there may be other kinds of entities that would substitute for people.. so you may get a few more years out of the growth.. but likely the whole growth matter would diminish around mid-2020s with a doubling of new wallets every year.
2024 - 512 million new wallets
2025 - 1 billion new wallets
2026 - 2 billion new wallets
2027 - 4 billion new wallets
2028 - 8 billion new wallets
2029 - 16 billion new wallets
2030 - 32 billion new wallets
2031 - 64 billion new wallets
2032 - 128 billion new wallets
2033 - 256 billion new wallets
Yet, even a doubling of new users every year would be a tremendous amount of growth for bitcoin, if such were to happen.