Dan Held: Bitcoin as a “sexy store of value” will eat real estate for $200 trillion market cap
Dan Held, the Director of Growth Marketing at crypto exchange Kraken, expects Bitcoin to reach a market cap of up to $200 trillion. This would price BTC at around $9.5 million per token. “It‘s a wild range of numbers, but I think Bitcoin’s market capitalization should be between ten and two hundred trillion…” The leading cryptocurrency closed eight daily green candles in a row yesterday, making this its best successive run in 2021 so far. In doing so, BTC also managed to close above the key $40,000 level. The upshot to this is the return of bullish sentiment. With that comes lofty price predictions. But Helds forecast is at the upper range of predictions that have come before. Whats his reasoning on why this could happen? Lofty predictions get even loftier Recently, Greg Foss, the Executive Director of Validus Power Corp, came up with a $45 trillion market cap for Bitcoin. Putting a $2.1 million price on BTC. His thought process was that Bitcoin could, in the future, capture a conservative 5% of the total global asset valuation of $900 trillion. This, he said, will happen within the next ten years as oil and gas suppliers ditch the dollar in favor of Bitcoin. Although that seems like a