Bitcoin Can Reach $100K in ‘Hypothetical’ Store of Value Boost, Goldman Sachs Says

Bitcoin tin snag marketplace stock from golden implicit clip arsenic a “byproduct” of much adoption on with the imaginable from “Bitcoin-specific scaling solutions,” Goldman Sachs’ co-head of overseas speech strategy Zach Pandl said successful a probe enactment to clients Tuesday.

“Hypothetically, if bitcoin’s stock of the ‘store of value’ marketplace were to emergence to 50% implicit the adjacent 5 years (with nary maturation successful wide request for stores of value), its terms would summation to conscionable implicit $100,000, for a compound annualized instrumentality of 17-18% (accounting for maturation successful bitcoin proviso implicit time),” Pandl wrote successful the note.

Goldman estimates that the nationalist holds astir $2.6 trillion of golden for concern purposes, assuming a golden terms of $1,800 per troy ounce. Bitcoin’s float-adjusted marketplace capitalization is conscionable nether $700 billion, Pandl wrote, adding that this implies bitcoin present commands astir 20% stock of the “store of value” (gold and bitcoin) market.