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A. LisdorfStill Searching for Satoshihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9639-4_11

11. Future

Anders Lisdorf1  
(1)
Lisdorf Consulting, København SV, Denmark
 
Bitcoin was born from visions of the future and is today primarily driven by expectations of what it could be in the future:

  • Bitcoin will hit $1,000,000.

  • Bitcoin will replace gold as a safe harbor in investments.

  • We will see a new Bitcoin standard emerge in place of fiat currencies.

These are common beliefs in the Bitcoin community. On the other hand, we have skeptics that are just as convinced that Bitcoin is nothing but a Ponzi scheme that, like all other Ponzi schemes, will fall at some point. The ...

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