First reason: Bitcoin price is now clearly overvalued relative the level determined by its public acceptance rate (if 100% acceptance rate means ca one million usd, then nowadays acceptance rate is not clearly 10% but rather something around 1%).
Interesting theory, although a bit underdeveloped perhaps (a bit of a poor man's
Total Addressable Market analysis). But fortunately this one can be debunked quite easily with "hard facts".
There are several studies that imply that the public "Bitcoin acceptance" is even higher than 10% in many important countries, including the US, and about 5-10% in many countries in Europe, Africa and Latin America.
- Crypto.com:
337 million Bitcoin users for late 2024 (there are no newer figures)
- Triple A: Their
last report is from 2023, but even back then there were already >10% crypto users in big countries like the US, Brazil, South Africa and the Philippines.
Of course their stats may be inexact but I think the general order of magnitude should be correct.
And of course: We may have a population of 8.x billion. But that includes children, the elderly, and people in rural areas who will probably never need Bitcoin. A 100% penetration would be thus in my opinion more close to 2-3 billion: one main user per family.
Our marketcap also means that every family on Earth owns,
on average, about $1000 in Bitcoin.

(if we say there are 2 billion families in the world, then the a 2T market cap means exactly that). Yes, the median is probably still 0 but it nevertheless is remarkable.
Owning some satoshi in some exchange does not mean that this person accepts BTC at the same rate than (for example) USD. How many there are such persons for whom BTC carries the money functions (medium of exchange, store of value, measure of value and so on) as intensively as fiat money ? Of cause, it is extremely hard to measure, but one thing is sure for me - the percentage is not 10 or even 5. It can be 0.5, 1 or 2.