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Re:Bitcoin Block 840000 by RivieraKid on Friday April 19, 2024 @09:12PM (#40093678)
Bitcoin's market cap can't grow faster than world wealth perpetually. S&P 500 can and has consistently done so. Does it make sense now?
Re:Bitcoin Block 840000 by nwiswell on Friday April 19, 2024 @09:23PM (#40093734)
> perpetually

Is this a fun thought experiment, or are you immortal?

You may be shocked to learn that GDP growth can't continue perpetually either, under reasonable assumptions:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2005/2005.05244.pdf

Re:Bitcoin Block 840000 by robjan on Saturday April 20, 2024 @06:10AM (#40096183)
The market cap is just the last price multiplied by the number of the asset in existence. There is no restriction on last price for either SP500 or bitcoin.
Re:Bitcoin Block 840000 by RivieraKid on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:46PM (#40109081)
The restriction is that Bitcoin can't grow faster than total wealth forever. I.e. you can't grow total wealth by 3% and grow Bitcoin by 4% forever.
Re:Bitcoin Block 840000 by robjan on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @01:08PM (#40147032)
It can. The misconception that people generally have is believing that purchasing securities is a zero-sum game when in fact it's generally a positive sum game. When you buy a bitcoin (or security), the money you spent doesn't disappear so the amount of bitcoins and fiat in circulation do not change as a result of this trade. There's nothing stopping a bitcoin from being worth a million dollars or a dollar being worth a million bitcoins, it's just a function of supply and demand.