{"id":643544,"date":"2026-08-15T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/bitcoin-to-1m-by-2030-is-mathematically-impossible-says-markus-thielen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:52:47","slug":"bitcoin-to-1m-by-2030-is-mathematically-impossible-says-markus-thielen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/bitcoin-to-1m-by-2030-is-mathematically-impossible-says-markus-thielen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin to $1M by 2030 is \u2018mathematically impossible\u2019 says Markus Thielen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/interview-markus-thielen.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin to $1M by 2030 is \u2018mathematically impossible\u2019 says Markus Thielen \" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trillions required to boost Bitcoin to a price of $1 million per coin is not going to happen by 2030&#8230; or perhaps ever, says party pooper Markus Thielen.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers behind the oft-cited prediction that Bitcoin will reach $1 million by 2030 simply don\u2019t add up, according to Markus Thielen, head of research at 10x Research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s mathematically impossible,\u201d Thielen tells Cointelegraph on Trade Secrets, arguing that Bitcoin\u2019s historical capital inflows over the past 15 years fall far short of the amount it would need to attract over the next four years to reach $1 million. \u201cWe have seen $1 trillion US dollars of inflow to bring the market cap really to $1 trillion. To $1 million [per] Bitcoin. It\u2019s 15x, I think, from here,\u201d Thielen says.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publication, Bitcoin\u2019s market cap is around $1.28 trillion, with its price trading at $63,868, <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span>according<\/span><\/a> to CoinMarketCap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/bitcoin-1m-by-2030-is-mathematically-impossible-markus-thielen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trillions required to boost Bitcoin to a price of $1 million per coin is not going to happen by 2030&#8230; or perhaps ever, says party pooper Markus Thielen. The numbers behind the oft-cited prediction that Bitcoin will reach $1 million by 2030 simply don\u2019t add up, according to Markus Thielen, head of research at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-643544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}