Quote from: HabBear on August 21, 2017, 04:41:55 AM

It doesn't have to be marketed every where, we just need a tad more than 5 times the amount of demand we have now to push the price up to $25,000.

Of course more press, marketing, presence, would help. But the best way to get that is for each of us to share Bitcoin with the people we know. We need people to realize that Bitcoin isn't a fad, it isn't a techy novelty, it's real...it has real benefit...it has real staying power. It's not going anywhere. And it's a great alternative option to existing investments.

Unfortunately a push towards USD 25,000,- needs a little more than 5 times the amount of demand we have right now. The larger BTC's market cap grows, the more money is needed to increase it.

Apart from that I agree. Also I get the feeling that Bitcoin is slowly moving towards acceptance as something more than just a fad.

Quote from: alyssa85 on August 21, 2017, 10:56:38 AM

The network can't cope with more than 250,000 transactions per 24 hour period.

That was why some developers got fed-up and forked the chain to create bitcoincash, which has 8 mg blocks. If adoption as a currency happens, it won't be on bitcoin - it will be on the other chains, bitcoincash, ether, doge, litecoin etc.

Linear scaling as with BCH only gets you so far. 8mb blocks will be nothing more than a drop in the ocean in the big picture.

ETH, DOGE and LTC don't scale so hot either. ETH is already at capacity when major ICOs take place. DOGE and LTC have only cheap transaction fees right now because they barely have any transaction volume going through. Neither scale better than BTC.