1 Number That Shows Why Bitcoin Will Go Higher in the Long Term

2026-03-06 06:05:00 ET

Four percent. That's the share of the world's population that currently owns any Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) , according to research from River, a financial services business. And for an asset with a market cap of $1.4 trillion, that amount of traction globally is still quite small.

So if adoption of Bitcoin continues rising at anything close to its recent pace, every new buyer will be competing for a very slowly growing pool of available coins, and that will send up its price during the long term. Here's how that's likely to play out.

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