Quote from: deisik on January 03, 2017, 06:55:16 AM

Quote from: Wind_FURY on January 03, 2017, 03:54:34 AM

Quote from: deisik on January 02, 2017, 04:22:24 PM

The scientists are arguing whether the Universe will ultimately implode into one big black hole (so-called Big Crunch) or explode into nothingness (so-called Big Rip). The Big Rip essentially means that all the matter of the Universe including stars, atoms and elementary particles as well as spacetime itself will be torn apart by the expanding Universe in the future. As I see it, the Big Crunch in respect to Bitcoin would mean accumulating all bitcoins in a few or just one pair of hands, but this is not very likely to happen, so the Big Rip seems to be more possible as we see with the price sky-rocketing right now. Given the Bitcoin infinite divisibility, the Big Rip of Bitcoin would mean the price per 1 BTC shooting through the moon and farther into the depths of the Universe, thereby making Bitcoin and its 21 million coins dissolve completely in the financial spacetime...

So how likely is this, and what is your understanding of how things might unfold in this regard?

Interesting. How is a "sky rocketing" price related to the Big Rip of Bitcoin? Would it not encourage the people to hold on to their coins and avoid spending them? If yes then how can the Big Rip happen in such a scenario unless the coins are given away at almost free cost?

That's the whole idea behind the Big Rip!

Hoarders holding on to their coins will make less coins participating in circulation (Bitcoin as a financial asset and currency), and the price can be however high. What about 1M dollars per bitcoin with a few hundred million bitcoin holders and only a few hundred bitcoins being freely traded across the world? If someone should decide to cash out his 1K stash of bitcoins, it will be bought up immediately by millions of greedy hands. Ultimately, it will cause all 21M bitcoins (minus lost bitcoins, of course) get distributed more or less evenly among the world population and then the Big Rip happens (run-away price with ever diminishing Bitcoin units)

That may happen in theory but we as humans tend to bw greedy and want more. Bitcoin will not change human nature, in fact it will validate it especially as Bitcoin's price surges higher and higher. Never have we seen the ideal scenario where wealth is evenly distributed to each one of us. Not even the communists have achieved that kind of equality.