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Let's say in the next decade, the value goes so high that most dumbfucks end up selling their stack back to fiat - and 99% of the available Bitcoin end up getting captured by ETFs, Companies, Gov and Maxis.
Would that still be a success?
I am asking this because that's what it seems to be happening. I will win either way, however, I do worry (a little) that it will get completely captured by the fiat system and become another asset under their control, just like @grayruby mentioned.
Yes that's more like it. I would say yes, it's semantic though. Yes because millions of people are orange pilled - not to Bitcoin per se, but to economic reality. Thus, whatever replaces centralized Bitcoin will be at a great head start to where Bitcoin was when it started.
It's dependent on the economic reality at that point. The hypothetical makes unlikely assumptions. Bitcoin doesn't hit $1million while people feel the same about the dollar and the stock market and other alternative places to park money that they do today. Bitcoin doesn't hit $1million while the chart looks like it does today. Bitcoin doesn't hit $1million while there are still a million of them to be mined. Bitcoin doesn't hit $1 million while most things for most normies need to be purchased with dollars.
The answer to the question 'will I consider Bitcoin a success,' is also dependant on what percentage is held by those four categories, and whether 'majority' means 51% or 99%.
FWIW, that's the wrong question - success/non-success binary is not nuanced enough to have much meaning.