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Topic
Board Speculation
Re: 13,500,000 coins passed
by
Wilhelm
on 18/11/2014, 22:01:54 UTC
There's a limit on the price not least because too much electricity would be used to mine the coins.

i.e. If BTC were to go to $500,000 in this era it would cause a catastrophic mining bubble:

   $500,000 x 25 = $12,500,000 per block = $75,000,000 per hour

   $75 million per hour would drive the mining to attempt to use 675 GW.  This is about 30% of all the power generated on the planet.

Ref: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=518111.msg8674306#msg8674306

As you say in "this era"...

There will be halvings so this will not become reality unless we hit the $500000/coin before end 2016.
At some point finding a block will be like winning the lottery.