What will happen if 10% of the world’s population decide to acquire bitcoin, there would definitely be increase in Demand significantly, but also what will happen after then will depend on how much bitcoin people actually want to buy and also how many holders are also willing to sell off their holdings. We already know that bitcoin has a total supply of 21 million coins, so there would not be any way to create more bitcoin to meet any demand. If buyers compete for the available coins it will just increase its price value.

No graph or picture to back this up? Anyways
You said yourself that only 5% of the world population holds atleast $1 worth of Bitcoin, what about those who hold atleast $5, $10, $50?

Maybe they already filled the gap that you are talking about? I know for sure that not all world population are into Bitcoin, the majority don't care but one thing can't also be denied, that Bitcoin adoption keeps growing regardless and that's enough.

I don't need to know if only one percent of the work population holds $40 worth of Bitcoin, is the adoption growing, either slowly or faster? If yes everything else doesn't matter then.

How did you arrive at the number of people in the world who own Bitcoin? Including a source in your post would have improved the discussion.

If 10% of the world population (about 820 million people) becomes interested, it would increase the value of Bitcoin since it has a limited supply. It would also increase global adoption as more businesses might start accepting Bitcoin for payments. Some government might amend their regulatory laws since more of their citizens will be involved in Bitcoin.

More adoption would always be good for bitcoin, that would increase it's demand and furthermore affect the price of bitcoin positively without a doubt. The world's population has being estimated to be around 8.3 billion so if 10% of the world's population adopt bitcoin, that would be approximately 830 million people holding bitcoin, that's a huge number that would definitely influence bitcoin's price.

Nigerians are 3 out of 100 people in this calculation, and that tells a lot about how much contributions they have to the growth of bitcoin.

How did they come to that conclusion that 5% of the worlds population own Bitcoin in any value?

Anyway, what the OP has yet to understand is simple Supply V's Demand economics. Something
of limited supply with a high demand means the cost rises.

Arguably this has already been happening with bitcoin since its launch or at least since the first
halving where the supply to the market from miners is halved while adoption grows.

So if double the amount of total bitcoin owners decide to want to buy and maybe hold them we will see an increase in the price of bitcoin that we not seen before and this is why bitcoin's potential to grow is still very high because we all know that every year more and more people want to own bitcoin, the laws of demand are quite clear.

There are only 50,232,294 addresses with more than $1 worth of Bitcoin.
Even assuming one address per person, which is obviously false as most have at least two or three, that is 0.625% of the world population.


It's not even close, 5% would mean 400 million: it would just be out of touch with reality.
400 million users with 50 milion adresses over $1 , 80 000 active addresses per day and 1.4 billion total transactions in the history of Bitcoin?
Nope! Overhyped inflated numbers!
40 million is way more credible!

It would be ideal if these people chose to purchase bitcoin rather than "acquire" it (by stealing, seizing, or robbing). Have you noticed that the number of scammers, thieves, and robbers in this industry grows in proportion to the price of bitcoin?

There is also another category of BTC-"hunters", namely, governments (they don’t need to buy bitcoin at all, as they can simply confiscate it ).

A BTC-hold trend has taken hold in the cryptomarket; as the price rises, fewer people are willing to sell (after all, why sell something that is only going to become even more valuable?).

This means there will be a "struggle" for a limited resource. It is possible that, at some point in the future, military conflicts (between nations) could arise in human history as they vie to secure this valuable resource. Who knows?

And to a decrease in the supply of bitcoin. There will be few people willing to sell, but many wanting to buy - this will create a market shortage. Therefore, stock up on bitcoin while it’s still available.

As funny as it may sound to know that such percent of Bitcoin like a total half of Bitcoin has already been acquired and yet it looks like no one is showing interest in holding Bitcoin, or even investment. It is definitely going to get to a point where the remaining will be acquired but the good news remains that Bitcoin still remains, because the higher the demand the higher the supply, so regardless of how much that has been in possession there will still be some Bitcoin for others who are interested to acquire, also it depends on the amount Bitcoin some persons will want to hold.

“People holding bitcoin worth atleast $1” are not up to 5% of the world’s population.  Didn’t you see reply by slaman29 and the quote by stompix?


The price will rise up significantly.

When that much people want something as scarce as bitcoin, that means the demand will be higher than the supply and hence the price will increase way too crazy. That’s a great thing for anyone holding bitcoin to witness..