I was thinking it could be interesting if someone made a calculation for bitcoin price based on full realization of Joel Monegro's vision of The Blockchain Application Stack.
Here's the article:
http://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-application-stack/If today's top internet companies of today used bitcoin as a their sole means of payment and monetization, ignoring the potential for bitcoin to disrupt financial industry, what would the market capitalization of bitcoin be?
Adding up the market caps shown here:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/209331/largest-us-internet-companies-by-market-cap/ we get a total marketcap of 1016.62 billions.
1,101.6 billion usd/ 13,564,150 million bitcoins in circulation as of today =
81214.0827107 per 1 btc denominated in usd.
That means each bitcoin would be worth
81,214.0827107 per 1 btc if just the top ten internet companies used bitcoins as their store of wealth.
As full disruption of the world is realized and decentralized companies become the basis of the post-snowden web we have no clue what the future web would even look like let alone the value of 1 bitcoin. Calculating bitcoin price in 10 years is impossible considering full disruption would entail a world where bitcoin is the reserve currency. In that world we would need a different metric for measuring the value of 1 bitcoin. Something like the utility of that 1 bitcoin.
Maybe a better question would be: considering full world disruption is attained and moores law still applies, how much processing power will 1 bitcoin bring in ten years?