For more than a decade, tech billionaire Jack Dorsey has been an enthusiastic supporter of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). In 2012, Dorsey famously endorsed Bitcoin as “amazing” when it was trading for just $11. That was long before Bitcoin ever made it onto the radar of top Wall Street investors. Since then, Bitcoin has skyrocketed in value and now trades for $70,000.
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What Dorsey sees happening next with Bitcoin is nothing short of jaw-dropping. According to a May 2024 post on The Daily Hodl referencing an interview with another site, Dorsey said that Bitcoin could rise to at least $1 million by 2030. That would be about 1,400% over the next five years.
According to Dorsey, there are two key reasons why a $1 million price prediction makes sense. The first is purely technological and is based on Bitcoin’s potential for innovation. Quite simply, the creation of a completely decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency outside the control of sovereign nations and central banks is a stunning technological achievement.
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When you add in the fact that Bitcoin has a unique algorithm that carefully controls the pace of new Bitcoin creation, this achievement is even more impressive. Bitcoin has an inherent scarcity that fiat currencies issued by central banks simply do not have. This is the reason why Dorsey, as the CEO of fintech company Block (NYSE: SQ), is now attempting to bring new Bitcoin innovations to market.
In May, Dorsey suggested that Bitcoin has the potential to play a much larger role in the global financial system and gave his $1 million price prediction in an interview with Pirate Wires.
There are signs of spreading adoption. Already, several emerging markets around the world have embraced Bitcoin, and bigger things could be coming to developed markets as soon as new pro-crypto legislation is approved. In Europe, for example, the new Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation goes into full effect in December. And there are signs that the U.S. Congress could finally be ready to pass comprehensive crypto legislation in 2025.
In July, Dorsey took things one step further by suggesting that Bitcoin could eventually replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. This is something that Bitcoin enthusiasts have been predicting for years. As they see it, the current U.S. dollar-based financial system is a house of cards that’s propped up by $35 trillion in U.S. government debt. When the house of cards eventually comes tumbling down, they believe, that’s when the world will turn to Bitcoin or some other alternative currency.
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