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Will Bitcoin ever go below $100.00 (one hundred) USD again?
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closes 3000
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by Coingeko price

Will resolve to YES, if Bitcoin trades under $100.00 USD

Last time Bitcoin was below $100.00 was in 2013.

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JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 36%
JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Raybought Ṁ100 of NO

Non inflation adjusted, with the dollar halving every 72/3=24 years, even dogecoin will probably never go below 2 billion market cap (the market cap of $100 bitcoin). It bottomed at like 7B in this bear cycle.

JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 33%

Questions for the market creator @Odoacre

1. Does this go until 3000, or infinity?
2. Is it inflation adjusted or not?

ElliotDavies avatar
Elliot Davies

@JonathanRay why would it be inflation adjusted?

Odoacre avatar
Odoacre

@ElliotDavies sorry for late reply

  • If I'm around in 3000 I might extend it then, otherwise I hereby grant MM the ability to resolve it on my behalf

  • Not inflation adjusted

KongoLandwalker avatar
Kongo Landwalkeris predicting YES at 33%

Do people really think bitcoin will live for 1000 years, when there are new quantum technologies coming in like 50 years??

Bitcoin will die, and before it dies people will have less demand for it, so the price will drop.

Rwin avatar
Rwinbought Ṁ100 of YES

Nothing is eternal. Bitcoin will one day, like anything else in the universe, cease to exist. This market is a 100% certain yes. One day bitcoin will be worthless like the last decaying proton in a universe at the end of time.

JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 44%

@Rwin But this is about relative valuation and the outside view on fiat currencies holding their value for 1000 years is pretty grim

jack avatar
Jackis predicting YES at 44%

@JonathanRay That's a good point, but the outside view on cryptocurrencies holding their value for even a couple years is pretty grim.

JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 44%

@jack Copycat shitcoins look pretty grim but I don’t accept that as a reference class. Bitcoin is basically fiat currency minus the inflation and annoying gatekeepers. Even if the fed always achieved its 2% target that’d be a devaluation by a factor of 4*10^8 per millennium

JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 43%

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JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 43%

@JonathanRay At 2% inflation it’ll only take 176 years without any increase in the cpi adjusted value of bitcoin

Imuli avatar
Imulibought Ṁ102 of YES

So whether or not this market resolves in 987 years, I don't believe bitcoin is going to make it that long.

Like modern currencies and unlike gold, bitcoin has no intrinsic value. You can make things out of gold, you can't make things out of bitcoin. This can make comparisons to gold deceiving. Like gold and unlike modern currencies, there is a finite total amount of bitcoin. This was a problem for gold because it was too rare to support economic growth - bitcoin gets around that by being much more precisely divisible than gold. Thus, like gold again, bitcoin deflates, encouraging people to hold on to it (or trade with an eye toward speculation) rather than spend or invest it. Bitcoin shares that problem right up until it crashes, and then, because there is no intrinsic value, whoever is left holding the bitcoin at the end loses.

Things that could cause Bitcoin to crash:
- someone solves the discrete logarithm problem
- sha256 is broken
- international communications breakdown
- many governments ban mining bitcoin
- many governments ban exchanging bitcoin for fiat currency
- cryptography-relevant quantum computers
- someone writes a worm to acquire a large fraction of the active bitcoin and then cashes out what they can.
- humanity expands beyond earth

None of those are guaranteed to happen, and none of them are guaranteed to crash bitcoin, but over 987 years one of them (or something else) probably will.

JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 43%

@Imuli All of those are either exceedingly unlikely or insufficient to cause a >90% crash, or both

Imuli avatar
Imuliis predicting YES at 45%
  • I guarantee you that somebody is working on a worm to steal private keys / online wallet access. Possibly North Korea, but they seem more focused on traditional bank robbing at the moment. With the state of computer security it's just a matter of time.

  • Given that the majority of bitcoin trading is speculation, I expect there to be at least a gradual increase in regulation over time, and possibly an outright ban on personal trading it becomes enough of a problem.

Given that this question has been clarified to essentially "will bitcoin or the USD fail first?", there's plenty of uncertainty. But bitcoin is more susceptible to failure because it's primary value comes from speculation, not from people actually using it in trade.

JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Raybought Ṁ0 of NO

My true probability is like 5%. Add 4% for the risk free rate (any duration over 2 months is 4%, because of loans).

jack avatar
Jackis predicting YES at 27%

@JonathanRay why? In what circumstance do you think this resolves NO?

JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 27%

@jack at expiration in 3000 AD

jgyou avatar
JGYis predicting YES at 15%

My true probability is like 95% but this market feels like it is going to be too sensitive to the whim of Bitcoin maximalists.

jgyou avatar
JGY (edited)

Between now and the heat death of the universe? Certainly!

FrancescoDondi avatar
Francesco Dondibought Ṁ30 of NO

@JeanGabrielYoung it closes in 3000, 1000 years from now. Gold didn't fundamentally lose that much value in at least 5000 years...

jack avatar
Jackbought Ṁ694 of YES

@FrancescoDondi The close date is just a placeholder. The question says "ever"

jack avatar
Jackis predicting YES at 17%

This question literally cannot resolve NO. It either resolves YES or never resolves.

jack avatar
Jackis predicting YES at 17%

I guess one could make an argument that it should resolve NO if USD ceases to exist, but then someone else could make a counterargument that if USD comes back into existence and BTC is worth less than $100 USD then, then that still counts for YES. Clearly the question is poorly thought through, anyway.

Odoacre avatar
Odoacre

@jack The intent was to duplicate @itsTomekK's market /itsTomekK/will-bitcoin-ever-go-below-1000-aga In that it says if USD collapses it resolves to NO, but I seem to have dropped that clause by mistake in this copy. I would say in the case USD ceases to exist I would resolve this market as NO

JonathanRay avatar
Jonathan Rayis predicting NO at 44%

@jack Without continuity I don’t think it’d really count as the same currency. It’d be a new fiat currency or shitcoin recycling an old brand name

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