if everyone who works in IT bought just 0.1 BTC we could overcome $10,000. People are buying wothless shares and bonds they should be buying BTC. Think of that ten thousands people who are already paid every month with bitcoins. If all people who trade forex jumped on Bitcoin we could easily manage $1,000,000 for 1 BTC.
Imagine now it fluctuates $10 a day next year it can fluctutes $10,000 in just one day. In the morning it could be $1,001,000 in the evening $1,000,000
I hope very soon 1 satoshi will become $1
USD is already worthless, look at that astronomical US debt which cannot be paid within 1,000 years. Only fools put money in US goverment bonds. Imagine if just a few investors and whales put their billions into Bitcoin. it will change everything. I am sure these whales are already buying on Kraken dark pool thousands of bitcoin everyday. They are accumulating and pushing price high
Bitcoin is still considered too volatile asset to become really a main stream investment, as shares and bonds. It is still too easy to corner the BTC market, taking into account how many coins early day bitcoiners (whales) may have, which makes it hardly acceptable by majority of the average-non-tech Joes to put their hard-earned money (they don't have that problem with heavily manipulated ETFs and other fiat-backed assets, but it is banks' marketing that does the trick. Bitcoin can't compare to that, just yet.). The speculation is still the main driving force behind Bitcoin pricing, and until it stays so, the rest of your post (that about $10k price) can be put into the sci-fi section.
It can be an asset even with the price fluctuation. However the moment more big guys start investiing in bitcoin, there will be whales,
but their power/influence will decrease over time.