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If Adam Back and Hal Finney’s $10 million price prediction were to come true, the BTC market cap would be approximately $200 trillion.Blockstream CEO Adam Back believes the price of Bitcoin <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">(BTC)</a> could reach $10 million by the end of the sixth halvening in 2032, as long as Bitcoin layer-2 technology and wallet infrastructure improves.In a Feb. 12 Twitter thread, the Bitcoin Core contributor explained to his 509,000 followers under what situation <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/wife-of-hal-finney-announces-bitcoin-charity-event" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Hal Finney’s $10 million price prediction</a> for BTC could come true.Back noted that BTC has doubled in price year-on-year on average since 2013 and explained that if that trend continues, Bitcoin’s price will reach $10 million, along with a $200 trillion market cap, in around nine years’ time.However, Back said that in order for that figure to be reached, improvements in Bitcoin layer-2 technologies and wallet infrastructure needs to be fast tracked to give time for these innovations to scale:“i think things will get “interesting” over the next two halvings. and fast, we don't have much time to scale tech. we need somewhere for the next billion users to own their own UTXO, their own keys, with censorship-resistant cold storage. without weakening main-chain security.”Back said that it “probably means sidechains/drivechains as a tradeoff. more lightning optimization [...] we don't have much time as tech takes time to mature, wallets, interop, integration.”Responding to a <a href="https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1624867914045169665" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">comment</a>, Back said he believes Bitcoin adoption hasn’t reached the bottom of the S-curve yet, as only 1-2% of the world population has tapped into Bitcoin. He predicts more investors will begin to “stack” BTC into cold storage wallets:“given volatility, i think #bitcoin can overshoot wildly and tap one of these $100-300 trillion market caps, correct and then regain a steadier adoption over time. i suspect people with average entry points, relative to then current price won't have much incentive to sell in size.”The CEO explained that part of that next wave of adoption may come from what he describes as “hyperbitcoinization spurts” — where <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-to-preserve-capital-during-inflation-using-cryptocurrencies" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">people in hyperinflationary environments </a>will “rush” to bitcoin:However, responding to another comment, Back also admitted that “we’ve utterly failed to financialize bitcoin” thus far. The cypherpunk suggested that <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/adam-back-crisis-will-push-btc-to-300k-even-without-institutions" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin could be used in mortgages</a> where property is used as collateral and Bitcoin as the interest:“the market in bitcoin-native financialisation is immature, almost untouched. bitcoin structured products, mortgages backed by real-estate but interest guaranteed by BTC, other products make bitcoin easier to use for more people, and match risk profiles. which creates more growth.”Back added that in order to approach $10 million, BTC would also need to “displace” a significant proportion of store of value premiums in bonds, real estate, gold and stock portfolios.At time of writing, BTC was priced at $21,800.

Bitcoin could hit $10M in 9 years but more sidechains needed: Blockstream CEO

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