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The math behind XRP to $1,000

Name: The math behind XRP to $1,000
Uploaded: 2026-01-18T03:46:15+00:00
Duration: 1 min 6 s
Channel: Ben Simpson
Description: YouTube video by Ben Simpson arguing that XRP cannot realistically reach $1,000. The speaker starts with current price (~$3) and a 100-billion token…

18 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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YouTube video by Ben Simpson arguing that XRP cannot realistically reach $1,000. The speaker starts with current price (~$3) and a 100-billion token supply to compute a fully diluted market cap (~$300 billion). He explains that doubling price to $6 requires an additional ~$300 billion market cap, and that reaching $1,000 would imply an approximate $100 trillion market cap—claiming this exceeds gold, is several times US federal debt (~$33 trillion), and is larger than the entire global economy—thereby concluding the $1,000-per-XRP scenario is impossible.

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XRP is going to get to $1,000 by the end of the year. No, it's not. Anyone that tells you this, please unfollow and block them as I'm going to explain very simply in math why this is never going to happen. First of all, XRP is worth $3 a token, all right? But we know that the token dollar doesn't matter. It's the market cap. The fully diluted market cap based on 100 billion tokens that XRP has is 300 billion. That's how much the market cap is worth for XRP to get to $6, all right, it needs to double in market cap. It needs to have another $300 billion added to the market cap. $300 billion needs to be added to XRP to double. For it to get to a thousand dollars, it needs to go to 100 trillion in market cap. 100 trillion. That is seven times bigger than gold. All right? That's three times bigger than the US debt, which is about 33 trillion. 100 trillion is literally more money than the entire world economy even has on the planet.