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 Does anyone have any ideas regarding whether #bitcoin will continue to produce 100-150% averaged yearly returns in the medium term? 

On the one hand, I get the smaller downs, smaller ups argumentation. 
On the other hand, it's almost exclusively been autists, nerds, and libertarians who have supplied buying pressure up until very recently, and now we're knocking on the door of its being "part of a well-balanced portfolio" for hedge funds, pensions, nations, and large cap multinational corporations, etc. 
This will bring a tsunami of capital this asset has never dreamed of. 

What say you, panel? 
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 No one knows nor should pretend to know

I don’t believe we will see diminishing returns yet because we’re not leveling off in adoption yet, but literally anything can happen that can suppress price and adoption, at least in the short term

The only thing we can be certain of is that the dollar is doomed…if we start talking hyperinflation, all the models are broken 
 Yeah I get that nobody *knows*; I'm just trying to get an idea of what other people think, hopefully from a bit more level-headed perspective. I calculated (in fiat terms) the value of N stack by when I want to retire, based on historically low returns of 100%/year [N*(2^Y)]... Very doable, and staggering, to the point that I need somebody to proverbially splash some cold water on me.  
 Plan for 20-30% CAGR tops

Anything better is gravy 
 I’ll simply say that a doubling every two years until about 2040 wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t think it will be stable like that though, with most of that growth on the front end. But that puts #Bitcoin at about $12million per coin in 2040 when the US debt will most likely be at $100-$150Trillion (barring any crazy monetary events before then, which is probable)

Before we get to that point though there’s no telling how the landscape changes and how we think about “the price” to begin with. 
 That's the biggest question in my mind as well: what does the rest of the financial world look like at that point? Is bread $1000/loaf? Do dollars even exist? 

Thanks for the insight!  
 I think it's getting momentum, specially with ETFs buying like 10x the daily mining... I personally like to keep track on the average bitcoin balance on exchanges  and gess what? It's falling like a rock...
But sure, nobody knows. 
 I try not to predict what the bitcoin price will do with any specificity aside from my conviction that it will always go up on long time frames priced in fiat.