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Is bitcoin a future proof currency?

What do you mean by "future proof"?
If you mean will it last, then it should do.  However, nothing is certain and the price is very volatile!

We are now in the future yes,but we cannot predict what will happen 3 or 5 years from now maybe a new coin with revolutionary features that could over shadow what bitcoin is offering to it's users now..

future proof? its better you call bitcoin a future digital currency and i am sure it gonna be used as gold by some government. As you can see american and australian government are running auction to sell all arrested bitcoins from illegal transaction. Even government know the value of bitcoin.

How much future do you need? :D

It's only as good as the tools to undo it are bad. And at the moment, the tools to undo it are bad, hence the continuation of the network. But new cryptographic insights are discovered all the time, so Bitcoin has to outrun/keep up with those new developments that do threaten it's security model. The Core dev team are acutely aware of many such problems on the horizon, as evidenced by the recent "Quantum computing threat means invalidating Satoshi's BTC" controversy.  

i guess it is future proof if you mean a question if it is going to be profitable and popular in the future, then the answer would definitely be yes because bitcoin is the currency of the future

i think that bitcoin is going to replace all worlds money because the technology is really great and it is impossible for governments to have impact on bitcoins also its impossible to hack this technology

I think there's a potential bright future. I don't think it's going to be replacing other money anywhere near our lifetimes. Governments could do plenty to strangle it if they chose to. Right now all they have to do is shut down all the exchanges and it's pretty much good night. A small hard core of Bitcoin only commerce might remain but most users and almost all businesses would fall away.

Not even the universe is future-proof.

Bitcoin has everything that can sustain it.Bitcoin will definitely stay if it has it's users trust

No, i dont see it lasting more then a couple thousand years.

You realise that Bitcoin does not exist in a vaccuum? That other trends exist that put that scenario in doubt? The only way Bitcoin will fail to replace other currencies in your lifetime will be if you're already almost dead.

No one could tell it by now,since half of people around the world do not know bitcoin yet but bitcoin making its name on the  internet everyday to those who do not know it..and maybe we need more years to be able to know all people around the world what bitcoin is.

"proof currency" well I think you mean that people and countries recognize and accept BTC as real currency, and to allow using BTC in their shops. I think that can be possible, bitcoin is universal. Just in my opinion we will not be alive to see that, maybe some countries will do it in future, but for all countries to do that I think its hard.

I believe bitcoin is currency already, you can do a lot of things with bitcoins now, just like with any other currency. I don't see a difference. In recent times when I receive paycheck or some other income, or I pay something with my currency, in my head I calculate how much is that in bitcoins.

Just for fun 1 BTC is 59 441 Dinara ( my currency ). I work for half of that every month, maybe even less..  

I would risk answer, that nothing is future proof. Someone can think that something is future proof, but there is no such things by me.
Only time will tell what will happen to bitcoin. Future is bright, but again, by me.

Well that's good then because i don't know of many other currencies that has lasted more than a couple of thousand years.

What do you mean by future proof ? But if you point that bitcoin to be use or proof as a currency ,i think that would be takes more time and years to be. For the future of bitcoins was the best expectations.

I think it is not possible, as we know currency bitcoin until now are still considered the money criminals even been banned in some countries. With the persistence of such assumptions, the bitcoin as the future of money I think has not been able to. Thank you

yes bitcoin has a very good future at all. bitcoin digital currency into the largest and most widely used by people in this world.

to me the future of bitcoin is quite bright. specially in present days the bitcoin position shows that it will have a bright future. its time to buy a number of bitcion in these days. the prediction is that it will raise more. if we look at the interest of the people it shows that now people are taking interest in bitcoin

nothing is certain about the future not about bitcoin and not about anything else. but bitcoin is an open source project that developers are working on it, so it is improving over time and if you are thinking about anything particular that you think can be a problem in the future (as there are many topics about it), i am sure there will be a solution for it.

Well man based on what im seeing bitcoin have some potential to grow more in the future. Maybe in the future, all countries are gonna use bitcoin in daily transactions instead of their own currency. However, there is a possibility that in the future, bitcoin will go back to the way it was priced when it is first launched. We can't say clearly what's bitcoin's future because its very unpredictable there are many factors that can affect it's rise or downfall.

The bitcoin will grow a lot in the future, it has a very good future a head and with the upcoming events it will for sure get bigger.
Its just a matter of time in my eyes.

What future?Next 5-6 years or next 100 years?

I`m sure that bitcoin will grow during the next 25 years.I can`t predict anything after that...

i think "future proof" have mean that bitcoin have become proof that the future has coming,the future payment revealed and have potential to replacing money,and yes i will said digital payment like bitcoin has become proof that we oare already on future.

Nobody can see into the future, but we can learn from the past and make predictions for the future based on that. We know from experience that disruptive technologies takes time and much resistance. Bitcoin compared to other technologies are still in it's early days, but it's growing very fast.

Most other technologies like radio, telephones and the internet took many years to penetrate and make a difference. Bitcoin also have some strong competition.

The future of bitcoin is depends on users of bitcoin and its usage, at this time if we see the power of bicoin and it's growing margin. we can easily say that bitcoin will never go anywhere in next 100 years..
but if a new crypto currency get start with new and better features and every one prefer to adopt that coin and leave bitcoin. then bitcoin can't survive in future.

i have no doubt that bitcoin will have bright future and would be one of the biggest cryptocurrency in the world
and more people and countries will interested to use and adopt bitcoin

Yeah I agree nothing is certain with Bitcoin today can be a good day for Bitcoin but tomorrow everything can go down hill for Bitcoin. This is why the future of the Bitcoin is so hard to predict.

The future of the bitcoin will be very nice there will be allot of bitcoin users and i think the bitcoin will have a stable value not profitable anymore but better for everyone who wants to use it just for online payments.

It is really hard to know what the future will be of Bitcoin and that is because Bitcoin is a currency and that is always changing but we hope that the value will be more worth soon.
And it was already stable for a long time so there must be a time soon that we have to sell it with a lot of profit.

bitcoin future is still uncertain, but for now it looks bitcoin could be proof, future currency.

The future will be very good for the bitcoin for sure. There wil be allot more users off course and some people think after a couple years bitcoin wil die but i think he will make it good dont you think so?

Strongly I would say the bitcoin will be in future with high value compared with any other currencies in the world. According to the past BTC trend it has made a milestone to by every year by raising its value especially from 2014. Depends upon the usage of BTC by various users the future would welcome BTC.

Being a bitcoin enthusiast,i believe on bitcoins projects,testimonies and its potential to replace real mobey on the future or just be a flat currency someday.Bitcoin is already running for about 7 years now and throught that time bitcoins is still alive and developin not like other coins out there.Bitcoin has it's potential to be a flat currency in the near future because of its demand and popularity

Bitcoin has a great future as long as many user is still using it. It will never die or gone , If your using bitcoin since 2011 bitcoin future is  now

Yes.

You should give detail about "Future proof currency".
Bitcoin is a already cryptocurrency, and a huge number of the people using it because they believe on bitcoin, and we are earning from it. In my view, bitcoin is already in a future. Whenever we are talking about bitcoin's future because we are talking about bitcoin price increase or down, otherwise future doesn't need to prove the bitcoin. 

Yeah for this 7 year bitcoin was being very great, it is very popular also profitable. I believe that for the future of bitcoin will more than now. But that also depends from the development of bbitcoin.

In a way you are 100% correct. Bitcoin will only be useful, if people still use it. If you take gold for instance, it has two of the same characteristics as Bitcoin, namely :
~ Store of value < People investing to store the value of their wealth >
~ Currency & commodity < People still trade with gold, even if that has been diminished over time >
Bitcoin might take the same route, if one of these characteristics are watered down over time, and only one remain to keep Bitcoin going. ^smile^

I think bitcoin has a very good function in the future. My prediction bitcoin currency will have power in the market. with the growing state bitcoin users in the world.

Bitcoin (and other crypto currencies) can be useful in completing transactions between countries. For small scale online vendors, the transaction charges and foreign exchange spreads of credit card companies and other mainstream intermediaries such as Paypal can be prohibitive, especially for small value transactions. Crypto currencies provide a useful alternative in this scenario.

I believe that the Bitcoin was "point of no return" in 2015. Already it is impossible to take it and to forbid, "break", replaced by something else. And in 2016 confirmed this.

Banks want to get Bitcoin from only part of it - blokchain, to inject fresh blood into his decrepit system, but it will not help them.
The same happened with the Internet at its beginning. Many companies say, "Why do we not controlled by the network, we will do our structured and fully controlled by the network." And where now these companies? Now the reverse is true - the company move from local networks to the "cloud."

So what will happen to Bitcoin in future?

Everything will be fine!

I believe that bitcoin future is depending on how much improvements will happen to make btc suitable for huge numbers of transactions without delays and how much is the network stability. as you can not predict them, you can not know the future of BTC

Yeah, I agree with you as long as here we are many users using it bitcoin has a bright future and it will become more popular in the future.
And more shops are going to adopt the use of bitcoin.
And also big companies that will enter to bitcoin industry.

Bitcoin will be fine as long as it has a really good team of developers (which it actually have) and they will be in touch every time solving any problem that my arose over time and in the future. This allows for bitcoin to have a nice and beautiful future. Also as long as deep web will exist, bitcoin will exist too, since it is heavily dependent on what happens there, the majority of btc transactions are done over there.
Anyway nothing is sure in the universe and we don't know for how long the universe will continue to exist also. Just relax and know that bitcoin have another 20-50 years as a minimum of life.

Everyone is hoping that Bitcoin will have a good future and that is because they want to sell it in the future also with a lot of profit and that would be nice.
The only bad thing of Bitcoin is that you never can predict what the value will be later so that is risky.

Probably yes but even if bitcoin fails to be the main currency i strongly believe that this will happen with another cryptocoin which will be and improved version of bitcoin.

Of course not. Nothing is really ever "future-proof". No matter how good something is right now, people will always come up with something better given enough time, progress never stops. No one would've predicted the creation of Bitcoin a hundred years ago.

and during 7 years I think the price of bitcoin is still not very good. when the price of bitcoin in the beginning, is very low and then rise very high to $1200 and has since bitcoin prices dropped so low, and now is a good price for a few years after we had not seen the highest prices were approaching $600

I do agree that nothing is forever so as with bitcoin that it was not known in near past and now today's time is of bitcoins where as no one can predit that coming future might offer new digital currency having much enhanced features that bitcoins so no one can say that future is of bitcoins only.

Yes we can say that there is no permanent thing in this world, but in the monetary section. As long as the currency is being used by the people and there is a right value. It will last for a long time just like dollars, it has been used for a long time. We may say that bitcoin will not last forever.
But as long we can use it, let's just support it.

For now, yes. But we cannot say where the wind blows tomorrow and the next days.
This currency is really volatile.

that i reality currency

We are thinking that the value of the Bitcoin is going to rise that fast but you have to know that Bitcoin was already stable for a long time so it will now start really slowly if it is going to rise so that is nice.
I think that the value will reach in the end of the year about some $500 and that is all so we have to wait a longer time if we want to earn some more profit with Bitcoin.

Not sure what you're saying here, that Bitcoin will reach $500 by the end of the year?? I see that it's in your personal text as well, you're hoping that 1 BTC will equal to $500? You do realize that one Bitcoin is already worth $575 right? and that we were close to $600 a few hours ago? Anyways sorry if I misunderstood your comment.

EDIT - In case you weren't aware of the price movement, I'm very happy to be the first to bring you this awesome news  ;D

Yeah, bitcoin is prepared for the future in my opinion. Fiat currencies are so unstable that every minute it could collapse. It's just a matter of time when a new technology or innovation replaces the outdated system. And bitcoin is exactly that.

That's why investing in bitcoin now is a good idea.

Future prediction is difficult, but so far as we are here, it is good time for bitcoins, so everyone can say that bitcoin's future will be bright, but may be suddenly bitcoins will be fail in future, or some crises happen, so what can we will do, only need to get information about bitcoin on daily bases.
So in the present, bitcoin is a good and popular cryptocurrency.

Future proof currency? What do you mean bro? I dont think this bitcoin can be currency. I think bitcoin is only crypto-currency thats it dont think that this crypto currency will be currency like fiat. Because First of all it doesnt have physical appearance second few people use it. And if in the future many users will use bitcoin i think it is impossible to be currency.

yes bitcoin is proof currency in the future because bitcoin get high value then other currency .

Bitcoin is still not that stable compared to gold, and it is going to take a while before the price stabilizes, the reason is the small number of bitcoin users and transactions.
It is not yet at the level in which it can be trusted as a stable currency, which favors those who are into trading, as the price can swing wildly in a matter of days.

The future of Bitcoin is looking good but do not quote me on this because you will never know what is going to happen with Bitcoin. Maybe in the future there will be no Bitcoin any more.

The future will be verry good for the bitcoin i know for sure that bitcoin is getting big later because as you can see the amount of users is growing verry fast every hour so bitcoins will be great.

If you're look on bitcoin value, I think bitcoin will have a great future since there are massive transaction happening.
Especially whhen halving is near so people try to hold bitcoin as much as possible

Its too early to say what will going to happen in bitcoin in the near future. as you can see it became stronger and more popular than before. currently bitcoin is the number one digital currency and has a bright future thats what i want to believe.

You are exactly right about that, its still the case if the bitcoin is gonna rise to a higher amount this year its still the question if this will happen if you ask me.
I think it will but not can be said..

Of course bitcoins would only stay as crypto-currency because by definition, crypto currency use a decentralized control of the supply and no one is actually manipulating it as compared to fiat/currency that is centralized.

BitCoin can be a future currency, you don't need a physical appearance for a currency.

I guess it is future proof if you mean a question if it is going to be profitable and popular in the future, then the answer would definitely be yes because bitcoin is the currency of the future

i think that bitcoin is going to replace all worlds money because the technology is really great and it is impossible for governments to have impact on bitcoins also its impossible to hack this technology  ;D ;D ;D

That's true there are speculations just like that, bitcoin is going to be a future currency and even it is not physically be seen and touched.
It doesn't matter as long as you have it and you have bitcoin wallet address.
Many stores are going to accept bitcoin as method of payment and countries will going to adopt it for sure.

haha, strange term "future proof".
i guess yes, it is "future proof". bitcoin is being improved it is not like bitcoin is staying in one place with a closed source code. it is changing and evolving as time passes by so in the future any change or feature that is needed to improve it can be added easily.

Why would you say that without any logical reasons to back up your opinions ? I think Bitcoin is the future.People have already started to get adopted to it.Most of the organisations are using blockchain as the base for their IOt based projects.People have started accepting bitcoins in commercial shops and physical exchanges.3rd world countries are having flexible laws with bitcoin usage in fact most of the bitcoin users are from the 3rd world countries too.As you can see bitcoin is giving an opportunity for almost everybody in someway ,there is no way bitcoin will not have a bright future.

Bitcoin is very dynamic in terms of upgradability. Bitcoin can easily replace fiat due to the features that it has to prevent counterfeiting, fixed supply etc. However, the main problem that is affecting its adoption is the volatility. Bitcoin prices can have a big decline in a short time compared to many fiat currencies.

Bitcoin is becoming more popular every day and that is only becoming better for there future. I do not see any reasons why there future would be bad so I think that the future will give us something.

Agree bitcoin has all the wonders one cannot possibly see i fiat but practically speaking,its hard to replace fiat completely.No matter what fiat will always be there.Though using bitcoins for local transactions and services online is great but when it comes to scalability on an economical level,it will fail.

Give us what ? You have everything right now you can possibly think of.

TIME will come that money will no longer be useful, digital currency which is Bitcoins will be the replacement of money
for us to buy anything we want.

yeah I agree with you all the possibilities could happen in the future about bitcoin. life gets the best currency or die by the state without the user? That option should be selected bitcoin in the future. Of course all of the future of bitcoin depends on the users themselves. so stay using bitcoin dude

Yes, Bitcoin is our future.
Bitcoin development will spur people to explore new technologies. The older generation is accustomed to use conventional money, and do not want to learn computers and the Internet, will have to learn and benefit from these technologies, and thereby develop without fear of technology.
Now, most people have been using payment cards rather than paper money. The point moves to the development.

Yes and if that comes we will become a cashless society and if people will find it convenient rather than using paper money.
They will going to chose the use of bitcoin and once the government is going to implement it.
Then we have no choice but to use bitcoin as the main currency.

I think bitcoin will have good future because bitcoin become very familiar and popular to people of different countries around the world..And the most important thing is value of bitcoin increasing day by day so it tells it will have a great future.... I don't think so bitcoin is no more in future because it will become acceptable worldwide.

Not likely. In maybe 10 years or 20 or 30 at some point bitcoin will no longer be profitable to use, maybe its value will drop by a lot or maybe a new crypto will take its place. So we cant say that bitcoin is future proof currency.

I hope bitcoin can be turned into currencies worldwide. whether it will happen? if it happens to be getting hotter this world. :)

It is good to be optimistic dude, but we need to be realistic at the same time. I think no chance bitcoin will become popular and widely use by the people, there are still fiat and that will dominate, we are only popular in the crypto world and that's it, accepting the reality is better than hoping for nothing.

i agree, but realistic for me means, that it will be widely accepted, but it will take longer then we think. even 10-20 years. easy. and bitcoin might not be the coin that makes the break. it might just be the coin that paves the way. 

Bitcoin is just a kid, the 9-10 billions marketcap is a joke compared to any other big thing.
Maybe some alt "son of bitcoin" can be something world wide, fisical and virtual currency. Maybe a bank altcoin  ::)

It is true no matter how big is bitcoin going to be, it still cant defeat fiat, bitcoin can become currency for alternative payment and it is a good investment tool and also a strong crypto coins, but no matter how strong bitcoin going to be it is impossible to defeat fiat

Fiat has its purpose and support and control from the countries, those wont change, the printed fiat may disappear, soo it will be all digital, bitcoin i do believe will be see as gold and silver, soo people will save their money at it or invest waiting the price fluctuate to get their profit.

There is no proof that Bitcoin is going to be a successful currency in the future but we never know what can happen.
The only thing that we can do is wait it out and see what the next couple of years are going to bring us.

Maybe it would last. Because it is more successful and progressive. But if the time will come, the value of bitcoin would be stable and increase then doubt it would last  :)

I think the future is very bright bitcoin. bitcoin some future time will be one of the financial media that is used by many countries in the world. bitcoin gives us a convenient and also the speed in every transaction we do.

I think it is very likely to occur see the enthusiasm of the many people out there to use bitcoin they see that bitcoin is a new financial system and sophisticated if this continues, it is unlikely that bitcoin will become a world currency

Future proof? Depends on your definition of future,if another 100 years i dont think bitcoin can last that long, but if you are talking about 5 to 10 years, i think yes bitcoin can become the global currency and if the bitcoin user keep on flourishing then we can see bitcoin as a high price currency

I doubt it.Bitcoin really has scalability issues to become the Global currency.I'm talking about the usage of currency on an international level,example two countries establishing trading contracts with each other with bitcoins!Crypto Currencies will always be around,not sure if it can ever take over banks!

As i can see Bitcoin is a gold or a fiat for me! Because it is really a high price currency ! So if you own 1 or 2 bitcoins it is really pretty big but for the others it is something useless because they dont know it yet. So im saving some of my money to invest in bitcoin for future prices.

I think that Bitcoin was made to last. Not maybe a hundred years, in todays circumstances no one can't think that far, but definetly wasn't ment to be just a toy currency. But it depends how the things will develope in the future, maybe some even more perfect currency will be invented that will replace Bitcoin. Anyway, future is now and things are changing so fast that we will find out soon.

the future of bitcoin is highly awaited. with the presence of more advanced technology era then we can take advantage of the very maximum bitcoin. bitcoin is the answer for the future better.

Yeah and I think bitcoin have an ability to change the financial system in future and more and  more people will join the community which will lead to higher price in coming years.

let me know about the another big things of bitcoin, so you're no need for blaming a bitcoin with the word of "kid". LOL And what about the bank bitcoin? the way is so far for the alcoin for overtaking the bitcoin's place.  for be a world wide currency i think that is just a dream. the purpose of bitcoin is just be a good digital currency for the buy and sell in the digital world. but all of that will changing if the world will starting for using a technology in all of the elements.

Yes bitcoin have a future and many people are investing on it because they know bitcoin have a big opportunity and they have futute from it. And i think someday bitcoin can use it as a mode of payment at any big store or in a shopping mall. So i agree that have a better future.

Bitcoin surely become popular in future involving more users and higher price and it will widely used and accepted like other payment methods which will attract even more people towards it.

Bitcoin future is really big i know because i already see the price chart in google i've already search the price before and the price in the present and the price in the future and it has a big difference when it compare to the price list you can see if you are going to search for it.

Bitcoin does have a  big  future  and for sure it would be  a huge  success and more developments  at it. As you said someday it would be commonly used regarding  on  online transaction  even  on  physical payment form on physical store. Thats why we are here on this forum because we  believe  on  bitcoins  potential.

Yeah bitcoin future will be more good and i am sure bitcoin will be stronger and powerful in the future and bitcoin adoption will more increase and we can use bitcoin as payment method in the future and then no one need to convert their bitcoin to fiat so we can use it for direct shopping.

Yup bitcoin is on development stage at a moment and we will see major improvement in its infrastructure in coming months and with higher adoption we can also expect higher price from it.

What big future are you talking about? So far we have not seen any rapid growth, only stagnation.
And in the meantime Ethereum appeared one year ago and it is already 2nd altcoin with 1/10 bitcoin's marketcap.
At this point I am afraid that Bitcoin will become another Litecoin and ETH will take the cake.

the future of bitcoin will be rise and shine and i am sure bitcoin will be acceptable in our place and we can be use bitcoin easily with out any problem and i hope bitcoin will be popular in the future and available in everywhere for direct shopping.

An online one. It can be done as a one online currency to avoid confusion and also for convenience. What do we do first when the price of an online items is at USD and we are in a different country? We look for how much the exchange rate is right? With bitcoin there wont be like that. We just buy some of it then whenever we need to buy something online we can use it without looking on how much we lost or if it is cheaper if we buy at a different currency.

It will take long time for bitcoin to be get accepted at physical places as bitcoin is not too popular at a moment and we need to wait for it to reach to every corner of the world and there is no guarantee that everyone will accept it as a currency.

Although it is need very very long time but I still sure that it will be happen becouse technology will reach every corner in the world. Amount of smartphone users are grow up really fast and ofcourse they will interseted with any virtual activity.

Yes the future of bitcoin is very promising and potential as its price right now is way more higher than 1,2 years ago so it's reasonable to have faith that bitcoin will be rising dramatically  ;D

Yes, i agree with your opinion and we are in time of revolution digital currency, we are not late for making investment into bitcoin because there are not many people who knowing and using bitcoin right now. So bitcoin's price can growing up again.

Ethereum is might for taking the place of bitcoin for several years later, too long bitcoin is trapped on the stable situation, and make the another coin is so fast wanna for passing bitcoin, we will see are the ethereum will take over the bitcoin's place?

Ethereum was basically doomed to never take Bitcoin's place ever since it split into two chains. As the two chains equalize in value it will take effectively double the money to push the value up as it would if there was only one chain. If the two chains merge then the possibility of Ethereum surpassing Bitcoin becomes greater than 1%.

There is no doubt that bitcoin is really something to look up to in terms of its ability to make and give us a fortune.  It is really a good way for me to have an extra income in this time that salary on your job is not enough.  Its future is definitely on our hands.  We need to use it always and maximize it use for it to strengthen and be in demand.

Bitcoin will be still the one of cryptocurreny that never gone like those altcoin. Technology will reach all of part in the world, so it is good for any virtual activity. Many youths of my country just start to using bitcoin and collect it for their pocket money. It is good sign for bitcoin.

Perhaps that Bitcoin is the currency of the future. In the same time there are some opinions that another currencies can get his place. It's too hard to predict, but the price of bitcoin is high and is profitable to gain it.

I dont think the bitcoin will be used often in the future and that is just my opinion because i know for sure that lots of people are let the bitcoin down.
Becuase the price of the bitcoin will drop that low people dont want to invest into it anymore you know.

Do you mean that it will the currency that will be use in the near future?, If this is what you mean then yes it is. Bitcoin is the future money. Many people are already in bitcoin since this past few years. Even though others are not really interested in bitcoin because they still prefer cash. But if the bitcoin will be declared as the money or currency that will be use by the people in the whole wide world, I think this will be the start why others will be start using bitcoin because they don't even have the choice.

yes , because there are no much and powerful reason to destroy the future by anyone for Bitcoin . and we know that  use of Bitcoin is spreading globally . so i have a best and bright future .

The future of the bitcoin what will the future bring for the bitcoin i dont think there would happen allot of shit in the future because most of the people
on earth who has bitcoins are still holding and that wont change in the future for sure i dont know why but it is the truth.

Dont think bitcoins has a bright future and that is only becuase i know that lots of people are letting fall the bitcoin because they dont trust in it anymore and i dont think that is the best thing you can think about becuase bitcoins are used by lots of people.

If you will not think that bitcoin has a bright future then you will not support and invest with it. Majority of us here believe that bitcoin has a great future that is why we are risking our money and we are taking effort to support bitcoin in simple way.

Yes and being users of bitcoins we need to have total faith in is future and in its potential and if we would not be having faith then we would not be wasting our time behind it.

That would be the pinnacle of business transactions as of the level of our technology right now.
I'm sure it will be much better than this in the future.

yes , because of its beauty of privacy and simplicity it is the future globally usable currency . because of ease to handle the future of bitcoin will be best and bright .

The simplicity and the anonymity feature would probably lead bitcoin towards a good future while privacy will be a big help in the case too, because people really like being anonymous in terms of money as it is great if you have a lot of money and no one knows that at all.

Bitcoin future is pretty bright I am waiting for prices to go up by alot. In 2020 we have the next halving happening and i think by then bitcoin will be really big already.
If it wont be big by 2020 then I will dump my bitcoin and move to a different investment if we still at 600usd.

what is so great about having money without other people knowing?
some people like to live a luxury life and you can see that they have money.
other like to life a modest life and you can not see that they have money, but then they do not need the money?
and if you want to life a luxury life and so not let the people know that you have money, then i have to tell you it is not possible.
btw other coins have a better simplicity or privacy, so this is a bad argument for bitcoins future.

Bitcoin isn't really simple at the moment though, most non-techies lose interest as soon as you start explaining about the wallet system and having to download specialized software. It's simpler for them to just use their credit/debit cards or PayPal. As for anonymity, well that's gonna disappear if Bitcoin goes mainstream and is recognized legally as a currency, people will most likely have to verify their identities.

I think it depend on time, now bitcoin is going well and it is a good time for bitcoin, if we do invest in it or do trading with it, definitely bitcoin give us good profit, but instead of these, if bitcoin die tomorrow than everything has been finished, But where we are here now we can guess only bitcoin would be alive for many years, Because we all have trust on it and we like it to use.

Bitcoin can be shaped into whatever we want it to be - all it takes is will of its users, good developers and right approach.

If people say that bitcoin is failing that mean only one thing - we are unable to make it better - therefore we fail.

We already have the biggest network potential & infrastructure in the world, question is - can we use it well?

Luckily we are reaching the price from the past so I guess we are at good terms now. If bitcoin can gain more momentum then I can say it is getting back where it started and will have a much better future. From the past there are not a lot of supporters but now many will stay to make it more valuable.

I can say that bitcoin is already in its momentum for having a lot of users now and that is going to keep more in the long run. And if I'm not mistaken
Bill Gates stated that the future is going to be with crypto currency. So the future of bitcoin is going to be a great platform for a new way of purchasing goods online and paying easily.

Bitcoin is the future currency.Its prices are increasing high.Bitcoin works in a blockchain mechanism which is highly secure.Even some banks are trying to use blockchain system, because of its safety.Future of bitcoin is very bright

Yeah bitcoin is a future currency but for now we can not still nto use it in locally and someday in the future the price of bitcoin will be more value and more price increase. and more stores will accept bitcoin as payment.

in my opinion bitcoin is a future proof currency and will one day clean up.   ;D

Well since it's open code, there are everyday improvements. In a few years it will get a lot more secure and convinient than today, but as the tech is evolving so must btc and that means that it  will never stop improving.

i do not see that it is improving everyday. there are problems we are battling for years now, but that is just the way it is. better wait for some time then make a quick but bad  decision.

If you are only looking at its price value maybe yes you can say that, but for the development, developers are working hard every day to improve Bitcoin protocol so that it can be adopted easily by masses.  As a matter of fact, there are lots of debate happening between a group of bitcoin developer.

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There are power struggles and so that are proving to be detrimental within the development community, however the devs are still trying to advance the protocol and because of that we still have to have some sort of respect for them.

yes, in my opinion bitcoin will be coming a global currency, because bitcoin will always continue to be used and more and more people will accept it.

bitcoin will always grow. although today many who do not recognize bitcoin, but bitcoin has been a tool that has the highest value of transactions on the internet. even paypal will not compete with bitcoin. I also think that bitcoin has the potential to become a global currency, but I guess that will not happen until bitcoin have a stable price

In online cucurrency bitcoin will stay in top and more popular because peoples get start to know and take a benefits of bitcoin. But about the transaction I think, bitcoin must hard work to conquer it and compete the paypal.
The price of bitcoin will keep unstable as long as there are still much trader who played the fluctuations of bitcoin every time.

The only change from now to the future for me atleast, bigger exposion, bigger community, a real position about each country around bitcoin, i do believe bitcoin will replace dollars in size of investment as saving and investement purposes, meaning instead people buy gold they will buy bitcoin.

yeah bitcoin grow and develop more people adopt bitcoin and use bitcoin, but it is not as easy as it bitcoin will become a global currency. surely there will be many obstacles as many governments that would ban the use bitcoin in their country? What do you think ?

I tell you what.  Bitcoin is going to be dead in the water if the network keeps freezing up like it did today.  Can't even get 1 confirmation on like $2 worth of BTC.  And the scaling-up thing.

This topic has been the deceased horse that keeps getting whipped.  It keeps getting resurrected every month or so, and I think the last time I posted in one of its incarnations, I argued that bitcoin will be around as long as there are degenerate gamblers and people who want to buy drugs and other illegal stuff.  The computer nerd population might move on to something else, but the dark markets will thrive.

Just like anyone here, it is clear to all of us that bitcoin price is unstable.  But we see that its price still strong and lately it goes up.  Future proof currency?  It will become a global currency in the next 50 years since we know how it does on the market.  As long as everyone supports it and uses it there is nothing to worry about it being dead just like one of the post here.

I think we do not need to give numbers while predicting the future of bitcoin all things is unstable in bitcoin, the volatile value of bitcoin is one thing that can convince more investor to used bitcoin they will earn in trading.

True, prices fluctuating makes people could take opportunity from there. In fact, That's what makes bitcoin as popular like now. Imagine if bitcoin does not fluctuate, whether it can still exist until now?

The future of the bitcoin will be good becuase i dont think the price will drop that low that everybody is going ot drop the bitcoin becuase the bitcoin does not want that off course
and that is why he is staying alive.

Trump is that you or is this only the same logic? some people say they sell if the price will drop other say they will sell if it goes up. so i guess the price must stay stable or the end of bitcoin is near. unless there are other people who will buy if price is low or high. so maybe the future of bitcoin is not about the price so much.

I see the market for crypto currencies growing.
And because bitcoin is by far the coin with the largest market capitalization and the bitcoin community itself is growing as well, I have no doubt that at least the nearer future of bitcoin is a bright one.
Of course smaller setbacks can happen, hacked exchanges for example. But bitcoin has already proven that it is strong enough to handle that.

Yup Bitcoin has the healthy future. I will live for long I'm this world. Sometime bitcoin price will drop but it bump back to high value on only. May be in future pawn brokers also may accept bitcoin.

The flucuation of currency is usual thing. The fluctuation is good for trading. If anyone depend that is still good to be an investment, more investor will come to invest in it. So bitcoin dissemination is needed. I guess bitcoin future is still good.

well about dumping and bumping thing it's depend on many factors and it's various such as a good news about bitcoin for example ( few countries starting to illegalize bitcoin ) it could possibliy bumping the bitcoin price but didn't sure if every dumping on bitcoin will getting bumped again just see when bitcoin price just reaching about $900 few years ago but now it's around $632

Bitcoin has already booked its place in the future. It hasw become inevitable part of financial world this way or another. The fact that some countries have banned it doesn't realy change a lot.
More and more businesses and some financial institutions are aware that they can't escape it. The question is just how it will be regulated and fuly embraced.

without any upgrade for the network i think its really hard to make bitcoin grow in future. and i think government will not make any statement yet for bitcoin, they just study first about bitcoin, what impact will happen for them, what benefit that they can get from bitcoin. i hope that our governments will agree with bitcoin and they can approve of using bitcoin in each country and then many people will adopt bitcoin and use bitcoin with safe and secure.

For me, bitcoin has a future. As we all know bitcoin right now
is being increasing in the market. Its being known/popular in
other country. Thus, bitcoin really has a future.

yes that is a fact that bitcoin is going to be a global currency, as more and more people are entering in the world of bitcoin and so they are investing their money here and making bitcoin more and more stronger.

I agree when you say bitcoin will be a global currency someday.  As a matter of fact, it is used as global currency at this moment because you can transact anywhere in the world with the only bitcoin as your mode of payment.  The only reason why it is not considered as global currency because the government does not acknowledge it as currency.

Transactions need to be faster. can't have this hold up. Other currencies will take over?

I don't think that any other cypto can take over bitcoins as bitcoin is the king of cryptos and also holds huge market cap and people have more faith in bitcoin in compare to others.

Bitcoin is the only crypto actually being used for anything. Nothing else is coming within a fraction of its capacity being strained. The fancy claims made by faster alts may instantly fall apart if they were subjected to actual ongoing and heavy usage. But I'm not convinced any alt will ever be put to the test in that manner.

What is wrong with transactions? Are there any faster transactions than Bitcoin ones? I am not sure whether it is the same to everyone.. Maybe it depends on the amount of money or something else, but my transactions take about a minute or two. Why is it that I see people often complaing that transactions are not fast enough?

You must be right with one good and simple example of having quicker block time.

Bitcoin is having 10 minutes gap whereas many altcoins are having fancy less than minute gaps. Quicker block time will lead to support double spending as network will not get enough latency to have all the information of all transactions happened between blocks.

More abusing by double spending will be the problem they are going to face whereas bitcoin's future is bright as it has all the features to withstand any heavy usage too. (block size also will have its feasible solution soon).

yes that is rigt to say, to me as a time will come when all the other crypto currencies will be merge in bitcoin and all the people of he world will be using bitcoin instead of fiat currency.

Bitcoin has unstable price and it is the thing that investor lured because they see the potential profit to be gain in bitcoin and it helps to have great future, we should continue to use bitcoin and promote bitcoin to other people because adoption can make bitcoin stronger life.

It can be a proof currency in the long run base in my opinion. It is because bitcoin was a type of currency that can be adopt by the whole countries all over the world. If they will only see the vision of it. But it will really take a long period of time before it happen. Surely, sooner or later they will realize the edge and benefits of bitcoin for individuals worldwide.

The bitcoin future seems good. Since bitcoin was already
used by other people and its really being popular also in
other countries. Bitcoin is in demand because many businesses
use this and wants to earn more of bitcoin.

No for the place of bitcoin, but yes for the features of bitcoin be old features and if there are new features are better than bitcoin and I think the other crypto will take it. so for a long time ago the position of bitcoin can take over by the another coin.

There is no proof of the future of the Bitcoin being good but I believe in Bitcoin so I think that Bitcoin is only going to become bigger later on.
Bitcoin is already doing good right now so with in a couple of years it will improve.

There will not be any need of any new proof other than what bitcoin had achived in the past. Usually, all things are speculated based on past performance. Bitcoin is having very good track of growth in last ~6 years. Hopefully bitcoin will repeat those growth again, so we can believe into bitcoin that it will have very good future.

There is nothing whatsoever that does not have a future, inclusive of bitcoin but he funny thing is that no one knows the future for certain as we can only make predictions by holding some factors constant and in the real sense, all factors cannot be held constant. So in the foregoing, I would also make the prediction of what I see about bitcoin which is more acceptance at the same time more regulations, in addition to increase in the value from today.

Lol, what proof are you looking?  The only proof we can see in Bitcoin is the code and the community around it.  Isn't million of supporter enough to tell you that Bitcoin has future and it is very good?  If you are still in doubt, you can check the code of it if it is ready to be upgraded anytime the situation needed an update or add-on feature.  I think bitcoin have both.

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There would probably be some solution to slow transactions in near future but i personally have never experienced any delays in transactions, maybe it occurs when you are sending more than one bitcoin which i never did.

Not necessary... It depends where people use the coin, for example, bitcoin isn't a good deal for a market but it's ok to online shops and others transactions... For sure good altcoins have a space too in the world.

There is no problem in transaction time if you add higher fees and I am sure you will never face the problem of delay in confirmation and time and your transaction will get confirmed in maximum 20 minutes.

Not sure on what the future of the Bitcoin is going to be like because looking in to the future of the Bitcoin is impossible.
You never know what is going to happen to the Bitcoin, it may die or it may be even bigger.

I dont think that the future of the bitcoin will be that positive becuase lot of peopel are not getting much attention to the future of the bitcoin they
life today and want to make money right now.

What will the future bring to the bitcoin i dont think that allot of peopel will use the bitcoin anymore in the future becuase lots of peopel dont believe in the future of the bitcoin
and that is such a shame for the bitcoin.

The future of the bitcoin what will it bring i think that allot of peopel are very nice about the bitcoin future but i dont think they know everything abou
the bitcoin you know.

this is obvious. no one know exactly about bitcoin future.. bitcoin's future will be good or not even the founders and developers of bitcoin can't say.. because no one have control of bitcoin. no one can make it good or bad. it is up to the community and people's demand and support.
if people support bitcoin just like how they are doing now. then bitcoin price is very bright.

no one can see the future, but you can ask yourself one question. is it better what we have know. will it be better if we take the basic idea and improve it and will give people time to learn and adopt? because if you can answer with a yes, then bitcoin is the future.

yeah who knows the future? but the fact today has stated that bitcoin is something very valuable to the internet world. price from year to year increase high. if we make predictions for the future of the existence of bitcoin is okay. Why not ?

The future of bitcoin for me really depends on its community. As we can see we already build up this type of technology and thanks to those big whales making it possible. More and more companies right now are trying to legalize bitcoin as a form of money in the digital world. Most of this are happening right now in Europe.

That's true the future of bitcoin will depend on the adoption level and the interest shown by the people, if adoption goes higher then it will directly contribute in taking price to next level in future and price has started to rise now that indicates that more and more people are getting into bitcoins.

In my opinion, It would be much safer if the price won't goes up anymore because for now, I am very satisfied with the price. All I want right now is a stable price. Exactly If more people contributes then the brighter future for bitcoin ;)

With recent developments, and the price of bitcoin steadily increasing, it should be about mass adoption that we are targeting. Let us spread the word and make bitcoin part of our conversations, not just online but in our offline world. If we can do our little share of making bitcoin more known by the public, for sure bitcoin is going to have a good future ahead of it.

Slow and Steady rise is always better then major pump as if we see major pump then it will surely followed with major dump and which can bring the price of bitcoin to a lower level and price is going higher slowly at a moment so I think we can expect the price of $800 or even higher at the end of the year.

I agree with this. I dont want that very high pump in just a day. But if you are the monitoring guy of bitcoin then it will be profitable for you. I am not much looking to its price and just letting it be. So, this increase is just good for me because I am online. Then what if you are not then suddenly this things happen? I would still go with the slow and steady rise like you said.

Yeah and in the past we have witnessed that price reached to $1300 and fell down badly so we don't want that history should be repeated once again as if price touches $1k in quick time then I am sure majority of users will dump their coins which will result in price crash and that is not good for bitcoin economy.

I am also hoping the same situation here. Our ability to earn is going to increase and I just hope that in the new year to come the price won't go down to $800 so that we can capitalize our earnings. What was doubting on my mind right now is the other altcoin trying to go down rapidly I think most of them.

how is your ability to earn going to increase as the price goes up? :D

and if you are looking for making profit on bitcoin's price rise then maybe it is time to think about really investing in bitcoin by buying some bitcoin with your money instead of waiting around and hoping price stays low so you can earn more while it is cheap!

In the near future the price should go up so this is good news for those who hold the coins. The number of users is also increasing with time so that should also increase the demand for Bitcoin which will again influence on the price in positive way. So, it's logical that people who have Bitcoins will increase their earning.

Things get repeated with bitcoin. Its the true nature of bitcoin. Bitcoin price increase and decrease is unpredictable and unexpected. We can't completely say that price crash happens when common users dump. Possibly the crash happens when big whales dump their coins without moving it for circulation.

Perhaps if the digital currency bitcoin I believe will be able to grow and develop into good digital currency. But if the real currency I think it is not possible for the state to require the adoption of bitcoin used as currency. Besides the currency in real need for a form of direct transactions. Perhaps the point to be the future of digital currency bitcoin very able and likely, while to be the future of real currency is difficult.

I see now so many people online now wanting to earn bitcoins and more and more new people buying fresh bitcoin and exchanging their fiat currency for BTC, so am thinking now that we should be on a slow but much more sure uphill climb over the coming two to five years.

No one really knows bitcoin's future, all we can do is speculate about it. In my opinion Bitcoin will rise in price in the future. It will continue to be king of cryptocurrency and will attract more demands as year pass by. By 2020, the base price IMO is 1200$ double of the price we have know. The chance of it happening is slim since there are many obstacles that might come against bitcoin.

I believe crypto-currencies are the future, but not bitcoin.
I mean, Soon btc will be replaced with another stronger and more stable crypto-currency.

ofcourse , it is the currency which will remain exist in the future .
because there is mo need to destroy bitcoin .
and secondly it is a best way to make payment ( world wide ).
so i think if we have the best platform for payment and also another profit atta attached with it then why anyone will make bad future of btc .
overall i will say it is most safr online money .

can you explain your opinion in more detail?
why do you think bitcoin s the best way to make a payment? there are faster and cheaper ways that are not less safe. so what makes bitcoin special? also bitcoin can have a okish future even if it is not the best.

I think that bitcoin has a bright future.
I also believed that bitcoin has a chance to replace the fiat and make it as a traditional money.
The bitcoin tech is really great and useful so many people loves using it. It's also have a fast transaction with a low fees.
I know every people have their own opinion about bitcoin but for me, bitcoin is beyond perfect. :)

I'm sure that eventually Bitcoin will become global standard for online payments and replace Paypal and other payment processors.
I'm sure that many merchants online will accept Bitcoin as main payment option.
This will help us to become mainstream and value of Bitcoin will increase a lot.
People who are patient now and have faith, and collect as much BTC as they can, will receive huge rewards later, no doubt about it.

It's clear that the future of bitcoin is to become the alternative for the closed source government money, we will have the best possible way to circumvent their control and be free thanks to the btc network.

Yes it is a future proof currency and the guarantee is we people as we love that currency to use it for our daily uses and we use it in our business and in other transactions of our business and we want to support it for life time.

There is nothing to prove that Bitcoin won't be effective and used in the future, and while the inverse is also true, there is a higher chance that we're going to see everything benefit a lot more from time passing when it comes to Bitcoin. Unless something proves this otherwise, there is a good outlook for the future and I would expect for us to be seeing good things.

From my point of view,the future of bitcoin is uncertain.There may be a new currency in future that may kill bitcoin,but again time will decide the fate..

There is truly big brighter future in bitcoin in the long run. And surely, until now there is no altcoins that can replace bitcoin, though they build big community in cryptoworld but that's not enough to replace it.

i am also thinking so. i think the price of bitcoin can reach to its all time high price this time and that is the reason that people are holding bitcoin and not ready to sell it in any case.

Bitcoin has been invented already meaning the only thing we'll see is moving forward and increase in price, there is no other crypto coin that can ever compete with it in volume, marketcap and any aspect for that matter.

Best thing you can do is to hold at least 20 bitcoins because 15 years from now it worth 1000X more than today.

I agree that bitcoin will have a bigger and brighter future because of the Implementation of Segwit.  Bitcoin updates is now easier than before.  This means Bitcoin have now easier access to upgrades.  Aside from that, creating smart contracts with bitcoin is made easier by the implementation of Segwit too.  This means more people will be able to use Bitcoin and more application will be build around the bitcoin blockchain.  

Bitcoin future? it's already a currency but we can't use it as physical like we need any time cash and we are going to withdrew it from any atm outlet and for me bitcoin has a good features in the next generation and all gadgets can be electronized now and we can use bitcoin for this projects.

Yes that is theoretically possible but I don’t see anything like this is going to happen in next few years because bitcoin being a first player of crypto currency has gained a concrete space in crypto payment world yet any other crypto coin can beat bitcoin in terms of popularity and even market capital but it would take the whole new step of capital raising and great marketing to beat bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the main one, the most known one, some people that have heard of bitcoin have never heard of any alt-coin and also, bitcoin is open source, everyone can contribute to making it better.

   Bitcoinsforall said everything ok except the end, I don`t agree that time will decide the fate. For now powerful people of the world run the world, and with money its easy to make new laws and what ever. I dont wish to diminish people power in this world. If Dudeperfect talks about popularity bitcoin is in the start, yes there is a lot of success in last seven years but its only a start still. Bitcoin will need more people to be strong, and more supporters then it have now.
   I agree that bitcoin future is uncertain, just its like that with almost everything today. My job is uncertain, my state, world peace etc. Its not that we can do much about it except to adopt.

Well obviously i am a moderate trader and i do hold bitcoin and trade it when price do came up like the current situation, so a price increase simply means an increase of profit a s well. Nope i certainly don't buy bitcoin, waiting is not a bad one but it doesn't that i am also not trying to rotate some but an investment right now is simply not the best idea in mind.

yes that is a fact that people are too much confident in buying bitcoins and therefore they are investing more and more money in bitcoin, which increasing the demand of bitcoins so the price goes up,

or you could look at the big jumps and figure that the big changes are done by a few big buyers and seller that just want to make some money and that do not much care about bitcoin. the influence of the "people" is quite small and the increase slow.

Anyone have their own oppinion, but what we can do are see the fact, the reallity. bitcoin price is always rise ritght now. and the new president of america is affect the bitcoin price too. the price of bitcoin is rise, from $703 to $738. I think bitcoin is really proof that it will be good for an unvestment beside the function of currency. So we can not refuse the possitive fact of bitcoin. Bitcoin future is really good.

It increase slow on what you see but as long as it's continues, there would be no problem with that. We have a lot way to go and bitcoin is the future of crypto currency and digital currency, the only hindrance why bitcoin does not improve faster and be popular is the government, they cannot make a tax with bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a promising digital currency, it can be used for worldwide payments in online businesses. and because it is on p2p technonology, it is decentralized. You can purchase goods across borders with little or no transaction fees. There is an increasing business transactions that uses bitcoins as their payments. Bitcoins despite of its limitations, some disadvantages, and volatility has a big potential for the future.

All the people who've known well will surely bitcoin considers that bitcoin is a place for profit and so if they can find an advantage in the bitcoin then it will be a good thing. Something big thing then it is something that takes time to adapt so that they become something of a good thing.the future of the bitcoin is a good thing, because all systems provided by extremely well so my bitcoin is absolutely convinced that in the future life of the bitcoin will very good

Mr Trump, is it you? Because this sounds like some meaningless words followed by more words. anyway. i do not understand how people bring taxes back up over and again and again. bitcoin is a currency and there are no taxes on currency. you can only pay your taxes in a currency. if you pay in fiat do you cut of a piece of the money and send it to the government? you still have to pay taxes.

i think yes , now user of bitcoin increase year to year
in future people may be will use bitcoin as digital currency and still use real money too

I'm sure bitcoin has bright future as well-known and widely accepted currency, the situation for bitcoin development pretty good right now due to people in community always trying introduce bitcoin to citizens and merchants, so people will easier spend their bitcoin directly on those merchants, we can see that the price steady right now at $730 and will continue to increase I guess.

Still we need to get more adoption from the people who have billions with them. Price pump is good for bitcoin and it will be increasing right. This is only I want.

Bitcoin is the future money maybe in the next generation. Since there are many people used bitcoin, it will become more progressive and very fast transaction. It will become the number 1 cryptocurrency in the future. In the future, the value or price of the bitcoin will increase and become more stable, and also it can be used in all many ways.

It is like 80 percent of the people here are waiting for that moment. We want the increase that is why we are supporting it at the end. Anyone who doesnt see bitcoins future dont really know anything about it.

No doubt in it, In my eyes, bitcoin is really future currency, because it is a different and also it is a new technology, and everyone want to use new thing and choose different ways, So if we choose bitcoin in earning wise and also investment wise, than definitely bitcoin never let us down.
So In my point of view, when ever anyone know about bitcoin than he use it mustily, but the majority of the people not use the bitcoin, because they have no information about the bitcoin even many people never hear the name of bitcoin,that 's why, otherwise whenever they know it,i am 100% sure they will use the bitcoin.  

Everyone dealing with bitcoin believes that bitcoin future will be great and bitcoin will become stronger and stronger as years pass by. I personally feel it is a future proof currency as the bitcoin foundation can update the code and algorithms as and when it is required to keep the bitcoin running smooth without any issues that undermines the security of bitcoin.

i do not know that. there is a very long discussion going on about the blocksize and amount of possible transaction per second. there is a lot of talk about forking and you can not be certain that it will work out fine. 

yes that is right to say, in fact bitcoin has been created for the purpose to facilitate people online, who are running their online business or those people who are interested in online shopping, i think bitcoin is the best option for them as they do not need to convert their currency to fiat, as bicoin as the same value in all over the world.

Im hoping that every shops and online shops in the world will accepts bitcoin as the fee to their service or products. In the future we will experience more comfortability with bitcoin.

There is a possibility that bitcoin will the payment for the jobs in the future

This will be made possible by upgrades of bitcoin.  They say Segwit will open bitcoin to future upgrade such as lightning network where transaction can be confirmed faster.  But there is several argument about LN fees.  They say  you need to pay for using it, pay while using it and pay if you terminate it prematurely.  Seems too much payment for me lol.  Anyway if that is true that LN will make fee more expensive then, I think even with there is lots of merchant adopting bitcoin , due to its high transaction fee, people will evade using bitcoin.

and they also doesn't needed to provide their personal info unlike paypal or any credit cards that need those personal data before you can make transaction its been created to freely make more easy transaction over the web and will also cater local businesses in the near future.

Some of the people don't even know what bitcoin is so we can never be sure about its future but my opinion is that bitcoin won't go that far , i don't think that governments are going to agree that  people to use something that they can't control and most defiantly they won't agree on that because that way china will become the most powerful country since it owns more than half of the bitcoin market

i do not understand how you say, that one can not control bitcoin and then you write in the same sentence that china owns more then half the bitcoin, which makes china powerful. where is the logic in that?

Bitcoin could be one of worldwide currency along with fiat. Bitcoin is growing everyday, bitcoin is getting more known and more people start to use bitcoin. Therefore, bitcoin has back up to stand strong, and it will make bitcoin huge in future.

The biggest problem is not enough merchants. I know its a slow process but its what we need most.

Yeah, bitcoin has great opportunity in the future imho since it's already going through all the time until now and proven as reliable digital currency that has higher price than any other. I agree with you, bitcoin won't replace all worlds money instead along with others currencies side by side but more advantages for bitcoin users of course.

The future is looking bright for bitcoin right now.
Because of the sudden surge in users the price is rising too so the new year is looking good for this crypto.

i see in 2017, many people will be realize that bitcoin is have a bright future and will have a chance to be a good and solid digital currency and can be used for long term investment. with the price now that slowly but sure will be increase, i think people will be thinking that its the best chance for them to buy and use bitcoin and hold it for a while.

it would be hella bullish for 2017 if bitcoin closed at today's prices or higher

the current bitcoin prices are rising, and I think this is a very high price. looks good enough to focus on looking for bitcoin today, and it will likely continue. Well, from the first, I had expected, that the future of bitcoin will definitely be better in comparison to previous years. I suspect that bitcoin prices will continue to rise until it reaches $ 850

and then what? stay at $850 forever? fall down? why $850? i see the high price and wonder what changed significantly in the bitcoin world that can justify a 20% increase? i do not see why. a small 5% increase i would understand, but this price seems to be so high for no reason. if this is the future of bitcoin, then i expect it to be the roller coaster we know and come down soon and hard.

what a bright vision. I also believe that 2017 will be the Bitcoin year which the number of people using Bitcoin will increase significantly. People will realize the undeniable truth that Bitcoin is the best currency in the world. FIAT is controlled by the government while Bitcoin is controlled by people. Using Bitcoin is the fastest way lead to freedom.

This has been the problem of bitcoin for years now since bitcoin was predicted to be one of the strongest cryptocurrencies. And as I can see that bitcoin users are trying very hard to bring bitcoin into real life by opening coffee shops, stores that accept bitcoin. So no need to worry about this issue, I think the one you should look into that is the way people react to bitcoin. This has been worsened because the media keep giving negative news about bitcoin so people tend to stay away from bitcoin, and this is a difficult problem to solve  :'(

yes we also hope so that bitcoin is going to become more popular in 2017, as 2016 is also bitcoin price as we can see a significant increase in the price of bitcoin and is still increasing , hope that in 2017 bitcoin is going to hit all time high price in very start of 2017.

I am very enthusiastic with this digital alternate economy, and I have no doubt that it will be crucial in the future of global economy, but I am not so sure about the role of our current bitcoin in that future, because it seems clear that digital technologies will continue improving for long, and perhaps in twenty years our current altcoins will be considered as the rudimentary beginnings of the future altcoins.

I think that bitcoin will not be a currency of future, its just the base of future currencies.

Bitcoin is the currency that has excellent prospects for growth, improve, every day in the world, more people are introduced to Bitcoin and earn money from it.

More adoption by large businesses and financial institutions to ensure the longevity of bitcoin.

Im still wondering, what does "future proof" means. Is it like will it keep its value in 10 years, or 100 yyears, or will it even exist and be used, or is it about it's technology etc. OP question needs so much aditional explanation to get any kind of quality response.

there are many problems that exist in bitcoin, and bitcoin I also recognize that they need to reform and development. for merchants problem I'm sure it can be resolved in the future

The future of bitcoin is always depend on what's happening now. If we continue using bitcoin and keep supporting bitcoin we can attract massive amount of people to invest in bitcoin because they will see that we trust every inch of bitcoin. If we promotes bitcoin well using social medias we can attract different people from different countries that might be able to build a store and accepts bitcoin as a payment method for their product, in that simple adoption from an individual can helps bitcoin a lot and it can increase popularity which the bitcoin needs to continue growing and growing and it will be very good for us, Bitcoin user/holders/believers/traders or any kind of term that you want to call yourself.

Looking good and still rising. Who knows why this is happening? I have been browsing and seen none for the reason to this rise. Although it is little by little but it is $2 to $3 a day so it is good for me who is stocking up some more.

This is just waiting for a drop. Everybody is watching it amazingly and it seems to have no reason. Also nobody talks about the problems anymore like 2-3 months ago, which are still not solved. Seems to me like everybody is eager to end the year on a positive not. 

if we take a look of the benefit of bitcoin, we that bitcoin can unite all people with the same currency and bitcoin are not depending with the time and place so i think its true if bitcoin is the future proof currency but there is still need to fix and manage in the bitcoin itself especially with blockchain speeding when someone make a transaction.

Bitcoins have a great future .as the atms are coming up in bitcoins where u can buy bitcoins and it s a great move as all the stores use bitcoins in the near future .

yes i am also hopeful that the future of bitcoin will be great. as people are accepting bitcoin in a large scale therefore it is expecting that bitcoin will be the  number one future currency. and hope that every one in the world will be using it.

Some people still don't even know what bitcoin is so we can never be sure about its future but my opinion is that bitcoin won't go that far, I don't think that governments are going to agree that people to use something that they can't control and most defiantly they won't agree on that because that way china will become the most powerful country since it owns more than half of the bitcoin market.

Yes,we are all hoping for the future of bitcoin to be great.  And looking forward to be one of future currency where people can easily access unlike other fiat many process to be done. And  sure many people will like bitcoin if it will be published and well recognized.

bitcoin will become something great in the future. I believe that people will see that bitcoin will have a high value, even bitcoin is something well in excess of gold. collect bitcoin that you have today, because bitcoin will be a tool that has a transaction price of thousands of dollars

i am sure bitcoin will be more increase its price and recently bitcoin increasing its price very faster day by day because there is a lot of people are buying bitcoin for the future and i am sure bitcoin will be more rise its price and bitcoin holder will be get a big profit from bitcoin.

Yes it looks like it will remain sunny, we all know a lot of the problem with the currency much. one of the solutions of that is cyptocurrencies.

for sure cyptocurrencies is the best solution around but many people need other to protect them and their assets i find this interesting for me to protect your own wallet no need for Govs policies or banks to make you safe , no grantee.

No doubt , Because many people are in the world needs making money from Bitcoin in millions and billions . So beside the Bitcoin as an free service it is also a way of business of doing work for online money .
In the recent months about lakh of NRI accepted Bitcoin , Specially in India after demomentization of  fiat currency .

There are not any doubts about bitcoin future. it's very popular now.
Bitcoin is accepted as currency for investing, buying and selling, gambling , trading and payment.
it's very useful and safer to transfer. I love bitcoin.

If bitcoin atm is installed on any region at some countries, then we can say bitcoin will have a future that doesn't have to proof. Peoples who use it, will proof it by self.

In my opinion bitcoin future is really good and bright, because the price of bitcoin is really high right now. In the other hand, more people also using bitcoin. I'm sure someday bitcoin will become popular and many countries will adopt bitcoin.

Yes it is too high that it also says it is scary. What if a sudden fall happen. I hope not. But there is this thing that takes the calmness out of people and if they sell it will be a really hard turn of events again. Its future will still depend on users if they will have a strong will to keep their coins without panic selling.

Bitcoin have already been popular since 2014. What we need is the Bitcoin adoption in the future which can take many years. The Bitcoin future is very bright now, as you say, and we expect more people will use it. The more people use Bitcoin, the higher the Bitcoin prices are

Really..? We didn't know.. Another guy who wants to increase post count and activity.  ::)

On the topic, the thread is now there for over a six months and Bitcoin's future from that point to here is pretty good. Definitely, the future is BTC.

I think that you should re-state your question first, as it is very unclear now.

But if you mean if bitcoin will be in future, then i think yes. Actually, i don't think that bitcoin will be "alive" for at least next 30 years, as now more and more people starts to buy Bitcoins, they are more and more popular now each day, as countries with bad economy starts to buy bitcoins now, instead of keeping their money in banks or gold

it seems like he was asking if bitcoin will be the most used currency than fiat , I don't know if that's the thing that he was meant to say but all I can say bitcoin will stay as a crypto-currency which is used as an alternate to fiat for various transactions . i have nothing else to say about it because there's so many people here have stated an almost the same opinion .

It will be good bitcoin lasts for future,we cannot predict yet how long does it last but for today it really give a good definition of modern currency.If the world adopt totally how bitcoin works and all are knowledgable of it then it will definitely has its future.

Bitcoin is the next step in money evolution. Same as paper post gone on the Internet and appeared e-mail, the same way paper money gone to crypto form. Bitcoin took all the best in itself from other payment instruments as paper money, gold and credit cards. yes, bitcoin is used by 2 millions of people now only, but it's only cause of bitcoin is not understandable to many people and that provokes skepticism. I am sure that soon bitcoin will be the same normal thing as credit cards.

price is not matter how bitcoin growing, for me how much the growing member, how much the adoption of bitcoin technology, and how much country allow it or legal it to use in daily.

Yeah but making people fully understand and aware of bitcoin's benefits and power is the hard part. Because the media coverage of bitcoin is giving false ideas and concepts of bitcoin, people are looking bitcoin in a negative view. Some of them assume that bitcoin is no more than just a scam and need to be avoided, while some others are badly judging bitcoin's way of work and they try to stop people from using it. If we can solve that problem, then bitcoin's future will somehow be assured.

I think the members of rapid growth, occurs because of the very high price increases. so, bitcoin must have a high enough price to make it better. but I think if the price of bitcoin is still above $ 500, it will always have a promising future. Well, the current bitcoin enthusiasts is increasing, if the price of bitcoin does not go down in large numbers, this would probably make a very rapid development in the future.

i think yes , because bitcoin is creation/evaluation from currency ..
bitcoin is digital currency interest many users

For now indeed bitcoin is the currency of the revolution and could provide a necessary changes in the world financial system if indeed later bitcoin in use by most people. But that does not mean if bitcoin is a revolution of the previous currency will always be life, because the bitcoin is a system that can only be used if there is a flow of the internet. Then this may be in the future is going to be an issue, where there are some people who do want to use the bitcoin offline and can make deals without having to connect to the internet first
 

yes there is no doubt about this that bitcoin is the currency of future, in future most of the people of the world will be using bitcoin as currency for buying and selling their stuff. it will be more easy to use as compare to fiat currency .

I agreed, so many people around the world were access internet and the failure of paper money cases in some countries are increase. So many people wants new economy system which better than the current system. So I think bitcoin has a good chance to get mass adoption.

I fully agree with you. In the near future, We can use bitcoin as fiat. We are living in this digital world and using almost the smart digital devices so that is the reason bitcoin will have a bright future.

No, it's impossible to happen, bitcoin will never be a fiat as fiat is regulated and created by the government. Bitcoin is still dependent with fiat and we have to admit that we cannot use it without converting to fiat. It's crazy because we think it will be bigger than fiat in the future when it's only limited for online transaction.

Bitcoin and fiat are both currencies having the same functional but just in a different kind of world if you think in the near future you can use bitcoin as fiat which means bitcoin will have its physical form then it's more likely not going to happen, but if you referring to the same functional but through digital world to pay things offline then it will eventually being realised

Bitcoin isn't limited to online transactions...

I think not only digital that makes bitcoin attracts many users, there are many other advantages so make bitcoin has a very high potential to become the currency and commodity future

Maybe it opens the world to the new modern innovation of currency,thus,it merely gives the easiest way of of earning ,investing and even spending bitcoin.It has its future, through the years past though its not easy experiencing the high and low value still many are able to surpass and even enjoying the good benifits from bitcoin,still we cannot predict .

I think bitcoin has always had the potential in the economic angle, even be the currency of a country. well, bitcoin will become something big in the future, to a country. for now, bitcoin is still seen as a tool for doing business, however, if bitcoin utilized properly, I think it could make all the potential out, and make a positive impact on the country or the people who use it.

Firstly have to understand what is role of currency exactly and how its get distributed and created. If we now entering into digital world then definition of money will also be changed.

But Bitcoin is real invention done with proper strategy. Its not actually currency, its a commodity. But still we can use it as currency due to vast advantages of Bitcoin.

Nothing really is future proof in this world. Look at the cellphones new phones are being launch every month. Computers are getting outdated quickly. Technology now has a fast development we don't know what will we see next. In Bitcoin we don't know what kind of developtment will affect it in the certain future. But I assure you it is also not future proof.

- I'm seeing an extremely dark future, value of Bitcoin continued to decline, I worry about its future
- But I hope in coming time may see more bright future of Bitcoin

Don't be so pessimistic, bitcoin is up $165 since last month and $430 since last year! It just needs to keep growing at a healthy speed not rocket up past $1100 which would only trigger another crash like what just happened.

- right, a terrible accident, I do not believe my eyes
- It needs time to recover. Easy come, easy go
- Do not know when the price of Bitcoin return $ 1000 level?

Well we don't know what the future hold's we don't even know how long does this bitcoin will last,

but for now it seems so promising so let's just hope that it would last for more year's and it's price to go high

I think the future of bitcoin is very nice. with the growing sophistication of today's technology will help the development of bitcoin. seen today that bitcoin users is increasing every day.

How do you measure "bitcoin users" out of curiosity? I would love if there was a statistic that showed exactly how many people are using bitcoin today, but I don't think such a thing can exist.

It can't exist because bitcoin is anonymous. No one is able to know who is using bitcoins if the person doesn't want to revel himself, this mean you can't know how many users bitcoin has. We can only know the number of addresses, but it only give us an estimative.
Being optimistic bitcoin can have 5 millions of users now and this number is increasing every day.

There must be a "best measure" however, even if the exact number can't exist. Market cap maybe, or daily transactions?

you are absolutly wrong how can you say that the value of bitcoin is decreasing , i think bitcoin is one of the best and number one currency of the world. to me the future of bitcoin is really bright.

It has decreased for awhile but currently it's rising, I think what we should be talking here is the future of bitcoin. The ups and downs of the value is just normal since we are still in the early stage. Despite of that, we can tell that people are really supporting bitcoin as evidenced by the amount reach up to $1,100 this month alone.

I think it doesn't help a lot, as one person can make a lot of daily transactions or not depending the day and the bitcoin anonymity helps to hiden the users behind the transactions. What I can say with certain is that there is not many persons in the world operating with bitcoins yet.
Being optimistic as I said before and considering 5 millions of users is insignificant as the world has more than 7,2 billions of habitants.

Some of people are using bitcoin for the illegal activities so you can say so that bitcoin has it dark future. Second bitcoin has its own good features that will people will know in next few years. Bitcoin value increasing and decreasing is a big part of it traders can't make profit when the bitcoin price is really stable. Bitcoin will increase it because of the demand of it not because of people who gonna use it. Bitcoin is the best currency i know never doubt using it since 2013 i really love it ever since in bitcoin i trust.

I often see people talking about the prices a Bitcoin can reach if we can only take a small percentage of the trading volume of xyz. Or how Bitcoin is the future and we all will use it.
Nobody talk about solutions to the maximum number of transactions per second and how this limits Bitcoin. If we can not process the big amount of transactions properly then this is a problem. Bitcoin failing is a possible outcome. Imagine how many people would lose a lot of money. And all the bystanders would wonder how could you have ignored that? 

As everything in this world bitcoin has it's phases of rising, pick and droop. Bitcoin is in the rising phase now and the nearly future seems bright to me. Bitcoin is going be used and counted the same payment instrument as those traditional that we already use and know. But in one moment something new will replace bitcoin. it's hard to say now what exactly, but it's necessarily.

- Maybe we should not guess the future, we should look at the reality.
- And the fact that Bitcoin is not stable, I do not know when is the real value of Bitcoin.
- I'm sure everyone wants Bitcoin price increases, but the fact that it is going against our wishes.

Up for Grabs: Hidden Bitcoin Treasures in Streets of Barcelona


Christmas is here and it certainly feels that way. In alignment with the spirit of giving, two Bitcoiners originating from Barcelona decided to gift virtual coins to the citizens of the famous city.

But watch out! These guys created a challenge to be overcome by the people willing to achieve the valuable prize. The challenge consists of finding a total amount of 25 paper wallets spread across several iconic or emblematic locations in Barcelona.

These wallets contain rewards ranging from 0 BTC to 0.1 BTC. Possibly, more than one reader has gone in search of the hidden treasure as they began reading this article. The good news is that you are still on time!

The organizers, in order to provide more information about the challenge, divulged a video detailing images of the locations marked with dots, intended to help the seekers find the approximate location of the wallets.

In addition, they provide some simple recommendations to make this game more appealing.

As long as we find an empty wallet, we should keep it to avoid disappointing other people who may come across it.

On the contrary, if we are the lucky ones who find a wallet with Bitcoins inside, why not share it on Twitter through a video to let the others know that the wallet has been taken. 

The organizers of this challenge have allowed all participants 10 days before they retrieve the non-taken wallets. If that was not enough, this may not be the first Bitcoin challenge - the organizers are thinking of conducting similar challenges as long as the Bitcoin community is mobilized.

I believe in the future of bitcoin. now, it has a big and strong community and now it's popular with many people in the world. it's used for payment, purchase, trading, transference as traditional currency. However bitcoin needs to become legal digital currency so that the the future of bitcoin will become more bright and it will replace fiat in the future.

yes that is a fact that still there is not such a system through which we can find the actual number of bitcoin uses, we can only evaluate using a rough measure from our daily observation, as in my area the number of bitcoin users is continuously increasing, because when i start using bitcoin there were few people who know about bitcoin but now the users of bitcoins are many more.

bitcoin future will be very rise and shine and i hope bitcoin will be use as globally and we can see that bitcoin increasing too much faster in the world and and people like to bitcoin for trading and earning profit and other online shopping .

It might not just the future of bitcoin that is highly awaited by many but the method or technology that created the bitcoin- the blockchain. The blockchain technology is gradually making waves in many businesses around the world.

I would say that it is mainly the technology that the people await and not Bitcoin. There is the Blockchain, which is or can be a game changer. But you do not need Bitcoin to use the advantages of a Blockchain and there a re very different places one can use it. The other big thing would be the money transfers you can do with your smartphone, but other services offer this too. 

I think bitcoin might become new currency in the near future but I can't tell when exactly will that happen maybe 20 or 100 years from now. Day by day bitcoin become popular and many people using it as mode of payment. Many bitcoin users awaited that the bitcoin will become new currency so that they ca use it for their expenses just like me.

Yes bitcoin is the future currency because it is being used all over the globe  in many many things .
Well bitcoin is now being used as currency and atma have been set up .what else do we expect .only government permission is required to be a success.

Bitcoin future for me is quite uncertain. In some countries bitcoin is an illegal money and most of the time used by criminal and even corrupt government officials. Another thing is the security of this currency because of being digital hackers are luring around to crack it and steal it.

What do you mean by that  Bitcoin a future proof currency? Bitcoin will have the future or even have the future currency. It will last long and value would goes up.

That's what I figured, most people that are within foreign Countries been experimenting with the Digital Currencies payments because they just can't carry large bills around all day. So most of them use a smartphone or a regular cellphone and send and receive payments without any hassles.
Bitcoin is getting popular as well, since Bitcoins Blockchain has a public receipt that allows anyone to see who bought what and when they bought it if they have the transaction information.

I always believe that bitcoin will last forever, it has come through a lot of difficulties, at times it is believed that it will die, however, it is still alive, and it exists, it grows vigorously. And reaching the top in the last few years, there are many things we can not say in advance, but we can believe in it. However, I am very worried about the bitcoin at the moment, it is facing the risk of crash, BTU may be crowned, but its value will not be equal to bitcoin.

I also believe that, I believe in the ability of bitcoin. It has experienced many events, and it continues, which demonstrates its strength and skill as well as its leaders. And the current problem is very important, the future of bitcoin depends on it, and everyone's choice is very important, I read an article, they say that the market always wins, that is very true. , The market determines the price of everything, bitcoin is no exception.

the volatility of bitcoin was the reason why the price value swings most often now. However, even it is like that in the long run bitcoin will become like a skyrocket in the market. Because bitcoin the world currency in the future. ;)

I doubt that there will a new coin which can move or even collapse bitcoin with all it's commodity of users only during 3 years . Bitcoin is strong crypto currency which have so many users in the whole world.
By the way just keep believe in bitcoin and join to "playing"with bitcoin, you will found a feel that can give you a proof.

Something will replace Bitcoin and have its transactions used more than Bitcoin as well. I just don't think that it has arrived as of yet. Bitcoin is at a point where only nerds and a few other groups that know how to turn on a computer get to use it.
If some kind of Government decides on building a Cryptocurrency then releases it to the public then the userbase will be multiple times bigger than Bitcoin.

Bitcoin has a future but we cannot predict then since its price is fluctuating. As long there is demand and supply bitcoin will lasts and it has a future. Thus, bitcoin has future as we can observe demand daily is rising.

I think the possibility of coin that will replace bitcoin will always be there, because we know the technology will always be updated. Likewise with digital currencies like bitcoin, maybe not now but someday I think the day will come bitcoin to be the number 2. But for now, as you said I would enjoy, believe bitcoin and continue to use it for the benefit. Thank you

although prices fluctuate daily but bitcoin bitcoin prices will periodically continue to rise each year. so you do not need to hesitate about bitcoin prices in the future

It's amusing to read the same stuff (shit) again and again

Any fiat (which is mostly digital nowadays) issued by any government is already a cryptocurrency in its own right. The major difference is that it is logically centralized (not physically since digital fiat is created in a decentralized way too). If they would want to create a decentralized fiat (i.e. which could be issued by anyone and not just banks), they will create a Bitcoin copycat (and this is a really huge assumption that they might ever want that in the first place). Regarding its user base exceeding that of Bitcoin, you obviously forget that Bitcoin is global while any government created decentralized cryptocurrency will be local by definition. In short, before claiming such or similar things make a few simple reality checks

Good thing many of us still think like this while some are already selling because of one news that have been happening. I guess it is really the faith to bitcoin and also the will to see what it will become in the future. Without that they will surrender immediately just like what is already happening.
This is things are non avoidable so we should get used to it. That is the future of bitcoin. It will always be fought by something or someone. That is how it is for being at the top.

For the moment. Bitcoin is ideal for internet shopping, because transaction time does not play a major role in the overall transaction, as transportation takes long to deliver. If someone tries to use it for over the counter transactions, it’s not suitable. So as Bitcoin evolves and technical issues get solved, then Bitcoin will gain significance. So I expect for it, to be significant in the future.

I agree with you, In all cases bitcoin price will increase more in the future. Maybe in the next halving we can see a unreal price of btc. maybe over 3000$ No one can predict the exact price. but we know that the price will increase. So, really bitcoin will be amazing in the future. Power(price), Anonymously transactions, Fast transactions, Maybe low fees. It seems awesome.

Future of bitcoin is just starting as of now. As you have said bitcoin value or profitable aspect is increasing and reaching its peek. And that just one of the best thing about bitcoin. And if we will focus on some aspect like the transaction wise,its fast transaction can make people to try using bitcoin because its fast easy and reliable so many people prefer using bitcoin that fiat and in fact you are the one who will manage your transaction with the used of wallet .

yes it's that we don't know what we might see in future but i am pretty sure that there will be many currencies that will be competing with bitcoin.
However it's hard us for us to say that for sure

Yes, you are right, we can not know what will happen in the future. And most likely such competition will be. Already, several alternative coins have emerged that can compete with bitcoin

Well most of us do really believe that bitcoin has a very bright future. I can only suggest or give tip to the people out there that if you can't have something to use for expenditures but you are just depending on bitcoin, then don't hold for a longer time. But if you are that type of person that has a lot of source then just hold your coins for it will give you good life in the future.

So how about 100k$ this year ,some say might get up to  1 million$ ::), would be cool,then all crypto bitcoin owners can retire  :D hawaiii....taiti...maldives..4ever ;)

After the ETF was cancelled, Bitcoin recovered superfast. The future would look bright ... without the forking discussions. China regulation is also not helping.

As we all know that everything has some limitation. but bitcoin i can say one of  the best thing which we could have seen ever. we can do many things from the bitcoin it is as good as you are having the money. the only problem is it is not accepted in most of the countries due to its nature(cryptocurrency), but with little conversion we will get the money in our wallet which we can use it for our daily needs. it is suitable for almost anyone starting with college students to old folks.

bitcoin future is very bright. reason is now the younger generation are more technical, they have good understand of how the technologies works. so we can see more people join the btc group. also we know government law changes more which makes people to join here so that there money is safe, we will get the benefit when we sell at the right time.

Yes, because in the future, it will gonna be high price, it just need now that making some adjustment because of the demand of it. But for sure in the future we gonna have enough of coin and be in stable increasing price.

It will be bright in the future and most of people who are satisfied on using it are not coming from the investors or traders.
That's what I'm hoping, I want to see bitcoin is valued because it's helpful for daily online transactions and not because we can earned using it.
That was only a bonus and not the main reason why bitcoin should be popular.

Exactly, because of this feature of bitcoin it takes place to the whole economy of this industry (online), it gains significance to the people where it leads to the needs of people to continue of the ease transaction and service that bitcoin gives.

Not many people think of the problems a lot of these online retailers are now facing when transferring all the small bitcoin payments they receive throughout the month into a cold storage wallet, the fees for all these inputs add up to a large transaction quickly that can now cost in excess of $10 to have confirmed on the network.
If bitcoin is to have a bright future then the blocksize needs to be increased and soon before too many people lose confidence.   

Well, I always feel that bitcoin has a huge potential in the changing world economic system. I think, bitcoin will start the popularity of transactions, and online business in the future. Well, bitcoin prices are also very high, and I think the future will be a bitcoin business so enthused everyone.

I think it has a potential to be our future currency but I think it is 50-50 because we all know that we have our own currency that starts from our ancestors and never have been replaced by other currency. We can say that bitcoin is another way of currency and such a big help in our people nowadays. As I can see the future of bitcoin is very bright because nowadays many people see it as very useful cuurency. But the problem only is the value of it because it is very unstable.

Bitcoin is a digital currency that be a trend and new option for deals in the world internet. I think is well suited to become a digital currency future as an option currency, practical, easier, rapid and efficient, but digital currency bitcoin is hard to be the currency of the future because the trust and acceptance of conventional currency still great

Bitcoin is proven as a currency but only in the network. You can't buy a thing through bitcoin now but there are some country are really accepting bitcoin and I think it will accepted as a legal curry in all county in the world which we can what we want through bitcoin only. Therefore, bitcoin is a future proof currency.

Yes,whether governments like or not,they know Bitcoin is valuable.Bitcoin is created for the future.Hope it will even survive after quantum computing and will last longer.

In your question, bitcoin was really have a brighter future. But the only question is we just don't know what it is, because as long as the topic is about the future it means no one knows what will happen tomorrow. It means whatever others view about the future it is still considered as speculation and assessment only. Though for us we bitcoin enthusiast we want that bitcoin become the new world currency in the future. But still not sure if this things will happen.

bitcoin has a very bright future. we all know technologies plays a vital role in our daily life. this generation people are more smart, they know how to work online/do business online, this itself gives the clearity that btc will be going to be one of the best investment place for majority of the people.

bitcoin future is obvious bright. Reasons why?
1.Bitcoin is decentralized and there is no system which controls it you will get what you do for sure.
2.Bitcoin is highly secured and it is very less chances of any security issues.
3.less transaction charges for transferring/receiving and much more.
considering these facts we can say the btc will definitely a best option for anyone who want to earn more money.

bitcoin will be become much more popular in coming days. people trust the btc because it is very much secured, best way of investment and most of the time it is profitable. we just have to stick to the btc whatever happens. if we just save btc we will get the profit from it. we will see more number of users will be joining btc because it is getting popular and we also have to do some presentation so that more people get connected to btc and the exchange gets much easier.

bitcoin will remain always best. it is highly secure and easy way to transfer coins from one account to the other. with miners who are generating the coins because of them we all take advantage as it is different form of coin and it is unknown to the government and other people so that we can save our money safe and we can utilize it whenever we want with little conversion.

Whatever it is, it is very much helping me in additional income. there are lot of people who will be thinking like me, if we are not getting everything in the btc however with the conversion of the btc we are able to get the money in return which is very good and we are able to use for our daily needs . The bitcoin is well glittering as it has become much popular among the online users like user and it will gain more popularity as now a days everything is done on the online which is a good sign indeed for the btc.

yes bitcoin is a very well good place to earn. reason why i like bitcoin and people will like bitcoin, it is crypto currency not governed by the system.
here you can earn well and it is very secure than any other form of investment. i would recommend to join the btc world to the new folks. there is no difference between btc and money, only one thing which is different is it cannot be used as direct exchange outside currently, by converting it you will get the money in return.

yeah you are right that bitcoin will be bright and rise future and bitcoin technology is is more going to advance which make very easy life for people in online transaction and bitcoin increasing its value because a lot of people are using bitcoin for online transaction and bitcoin is very popular currency.

Well from my understanding of what the OP wrote it seems to me he wants to suggest that Bitcoin is a futuristic currency and he might not be too far from the truth. Cryptocurrencies are going to dominate the future but as to whether Bitcoin is going to be fit for tgat competition leaves a lot to be desired as there are a lot of in fighting sand uncertainties. So we hope it's Bitcoin but if not any other strong cryptocurrency of the day could be the future.

Bitcoin and today has every reason to be considered the leader of the financial market, but only as a digital currency and in the network. On other laurels bitkoin should not claim. The future bitcoin only as a currency for the Internet and other opportunities I do not see that he had in the future.

It is, it is the dream system of the economy not including that bitcoin is more becoming stagnant. Bitcoins are more used as a saved money on wallet, they do not use it in thats why the bitcoin are vecoming more stagnant, and the price are going down. It can't be a future currency if we all users save that from a wallet, we must use bitcoin directly to buy and pay things.

yes there is no doubt about this that bitcoin has a very bright future. as the new generation is giving more importance to bitcoin therefore we can say that bitcoin has a great future.

This generation people are more smart, they know how to work online/do business online, this itself gives the clearity that btc will be going to be one of the best investment place for majority of the people. The bitcoin is well glittering as it has become much popular among the online users like user and it will gain more popularity as now a days everything is done on the online which is a good sign indeed for the btc.

Bitcoin is already the best and most popular investment online. Many kind of investmemts platform are being created unfortunately most of them uses it just to scam other earners. It is so hard now to trust again unless you are brave and willing to take all the risks.

It really is a shame. Look at the futures exchanges, the fees will kill you. Open up a large margin position, and you're already 15-20% down... >:(

Quite true and that has been my bane with Bitcoin in recent times. The fees are really killing us fast and they better do something about it fast.

Bitcoin is one of the worst investments that someone could make if they are doing futures. Bitcoin investing for the long-term could make a bunch of people some money if they know when to get in.
Anyone who invested in Bitcoin from a year ago and before that timeframe has made their money back and a few extra cash as well. Bitcoin isn't totally finished yet because Bitcoin recovered from the dump that happened two days ago and the that dump yesterday allowed Bitcoin to correct the trend of Bitcoin as well.

Not even the universe is future-proof :)

I am sure bitcoin will be a huge in the future
Bitcoin is the best for the digital currency than other digital currency. Bitcoin is simple, fast and Anonymous.

Bitcoin has a great future in our economics since bitcoin here in my country and it alrady considered bitcoin to our bank we could easily exchange our bitcoin or deposit bitcoin directly into fiat into our bank accounts. There will be huge feautures that bitcoin waiting lets just wait and see what will happen year by year.

I also planned to do so. But the latest news about the fork upset me. Now I do not know if I should keep my coins for the future or spend them until the price has fallen

If you will spend your coins now then you will surely regret in future and there is nothing to worry about the current decline is price as this is part and parcel of bitcoin economy and we have seen same thing even in the past but bitcoins has tendency to recover its price very soon and same thing will happen this time too so just have patience and hold your coins.

Right now bitcoin prices are recovering so we never need to worry as some people were taking panic decisions about holding bitcoins regardless of what they have planned for their bitcoins before.

There will be no doubts about the future of bitcoins, yes the future is still belong to bitcoin only. All the current situations associated with bitcoins will get resolved over time as solutions are being found when there will be a real demand for that. All we need to do now must be utilizing the current cheaper prices of bitcoins.

Experienced users of bitcoins will never get panic by seeing at the decline in the price and they will grab this opportunity of accumulating more and more coins at cheaper price and will wait for the right time to sell their coins to generate higher profits from it.

You need to correct your words as with the word future proof we will take a thing which will take away the future. I think you are talking about future securing. Change it to future securing. If you are talking about future securing then yes it is a future securing currency and in the future it will provide more strength to our financial system.

You should never buy an investment vehicle as volatile as junk bonds, small young company stocks or Bitcoin as a retirement hold (future proof) investment.

Some examples of low-volatility (future proof) investments would be: long-term (5-10 yr), low-yield treasury bonds of countries with stable, developed economies (like the US, Germany or the UK); shares in large, well-known multinational companies (McDonald's, Apple, Microsoft etc.) or aggregate funds which balance investments in different assets to achieve low volatility. Real estate in certain markets can also be future proof.

take a look at how a person develops if you want to see the future of a person as well as with bitcoin. you can see the development and deployment of bitcoin today, very promising right ?

Bitcoin will be a promising currency in future for sure and ups and downs will be always a part of any damn thing and same goes with bitcoin too but if you have patience and if you can hold your bitcoins for longer term then you will only get benefits from it in future.

Many of us are still keep on holding our bitcoin because we believe it will recover again from the previous issues and whatever the problems may come BTC has the power to overcome it. I'm looking foward for a brighter future ahead with bitcoins.

Thats what investors nowadays aiming for in thefuture for bitcoin to be one of the legalize and most accepted currencies online and in physical shops

People who have faith in bitcoins will prefer to hold their bitcoins for a long term and will not entertain the short term fluctuations as they are pretty confident that price will rise in long run as it has risen in the past so they will not sell their coins when price goes down and will hold it till the right time comes.

Well people don’t know that fact, people always keep asking stupid question like when the bitcoin is going to go up and when is the best time to sell your bitcoin, they always want the easy way out they are even lazy to think for themselves, people should always do what they think is right not follow other people, because other people might be wrong.

No one can tell if the bitcoin will run on it for 10 years or not, for what happening now with releasing a crypto currency we will see where bitcoin can go. So very hard to predict whether bitcoin have a future or not.

Yep there's no one can tell the future of bitcoin but I'm sure that many are going to stay and going to stick with bitcoin. But as long as there will be an existing bitcoin and the market cap of it is very acceptable. Many investors, traders and other users will be keep on relying on this coin and many new comers are going to had interest on it.

Same as most speculations bitcoin has a big future. We are just a few years away from the day of such a technology evolution. Little by little now only the adoption and acceptance into respective sectors getting increased based looking upon the way it has got used in several sectors.

I guess because of the recent events this made us worry about the future of bitcoin. But really we dont say this before. All we talk about was what could it do in the future. So that says we know there is one or it is part of the future. Now we are doubting it and it affects the value of it because of that.
If a new investor read  about this kinds of doubts how could we make it more valuable.
I know we are being realistic but it will hurt the price.

but to me i think we can predict about the future of bitcoin from the present progress of bitcoin. as we can see that the users of bitcoin are increasing from time to time therefore we can conclude that the future of bitcoin will be too much bright and bitcoin will continue for long long time.

Now we can not say anything about the future of bitcoin. In early 2017, there were many predictions of the perfect development of bitcoin. But then no one knew that there would be a fork threat. Therefore, our forecasts are very inaccurate.

What do you mean by future proof ? But if you point that bitcoin to be use or proof as a currency ,i think that would be takes more time and years to be. For the future of bitcoins was the best expectations.

By future proof he mean a future securing currency. Maybe I will not be wrong. If that is right what i said then i will add that bitcoin is really future proof and it will not take longer time to prove that it is the currency which will be our secured currency in the future as it already proved that bitcoin will be the global and secured currency in the future and people from all over the world will use that currency.

I think bitcoin produced for some reason. Bitcoin called digital currency. Bitcoin processing power or mathematical advances thus algorithms weak or obsolete and its protocol can simply be upgraded.

Yes, it's true it's like league of legends which is totally a retarded in lower divisions.
People will tell bs to do this and do that it will be good for the team and the same thing is here.
I have also seen many people telling to sell bitcoins, in other words, forcing someone it's really creepy to think of it.

but i am bitcoin will be survive forever because bitcoin is very much stronger currency of the world and there is no one competitive of bitcoin and all bitcoin users are know that bitcoin will be survive for always.

That's right until WWIII occur, mass banned among governments worldwide, the unacceptance of bitcoin towards new potential users, and the lost faith of bitcoin users against bitcoin. There's no such thing which could always survive in this world. Everything has its own point where it will eventually be dead. As for now, bitcoin already have some kind of competition with those newly developed altcoins and the competition happen in many sectors, not only the value of coins themselves.

Doubt, because people are people, and they always choose cheaper and quicker solutions. Bitcoin has none of those attributes, and never will.
https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction (https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction)
https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time (https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time)

You can't say that for sure.

See if you mean to ask if bitcoin will last longer or not,
By asking about it being future proof or not.
Then I think that it will last longer.
It may even become the most used currency in the world in some time.
Until there will be some technology invented better than it.
But you can never predict something,
Because the market is very volatile.

When there is no bad news and the price of bitcoin goes up, it seems that it will always be so. But, unfortunately, the Cryptocurrency is very unstable. And we really can not guess what will happen to her tomorrow

makes sense really , altcoin have advanced technology to solve the fee problem ,
when bitcoin now still struggling to decide about blocks expansion ,
look at dogecoin , it has really really low fee compared to bitcoin ,
people will use it later if bitcoin situation not getting better.

Well the only sure now is that bitcoin need to find easy solutions to handle the problems caused with the possible split into two different coins, as well split the community, we are stronger together. In the past i were sure bitcoin would stand for severals years, nowadays not soo sure.

Put it this way. Bitcoin is now. The blockchain will be developed to meet the demands of future innovations. If bitcoin loses its ability to adapt to future economic climates, it will face the same dilemma as the peppered moth. But, the technology that bitcoin is built upon will adapt, evolve, and be here long into the future.

Yes, I agree with you. Technology must adapt. All of us recently faced the problem of long transactions confirmation. This is very negative. So I'm sure that bitcoin will have a good future if he can adapt

You can't really determine the future of bitcoins but you can just gives speculation based on what is happening to it now. But in the long run there would be some "unexpected circumstances" that may occur thus making bitcoins either progresses or just go down. It just like how you see yourself 10 or 20 years in the future.

I'm hoping the community will come together and figure out a way to set aside their differences without breaking the chain that's been developed so far. But, it looks like there may be a fork looming but that's just a natural consequence built into human nature. Religions fork, cultures fork, governments fork, species fork,...etc. Sometimes forks are necessary for survival.

Technology updating based on the growth experienced is a must for a successful future. Now itself it is getting used as a currency and the transaction delay seems to be a long time problem. This will be easily sought out in the future.

I wont risk too much here, since the split will happen sooner or later and price should reflect those split, i had imagined bitcoin to reach easy 5000 dollars on the next 10 years with the split i believe it will reach maybe 2000 dollars.

Affirmative, it's been knocking at the door for far too long and I hope people will start adopting it like their local gust because it's proven beyond reasonable doubt that it's the proof of future currency even though it's got it's own challenges but I'm positive about its future.

The future of bitcoin is very bright now because of its good progress in the market and in the world. There is a lot of good news for this year now like the ATH price and the we also surpassed the price of the gold even just for days and now the crazy adoption of the Japanese people of bitcoin and that news will be the rocket fuel for the price to skyrocket more and surpass the ATH and make another type of ATH price. The future of bitcoin is very clear that it will be big, so i keep collecting and saving bitcoin so i won't regret ignoring this cheap price now compare to the possible future price.

Yes bitcoin is currency, but in the future it will remain as digital currency and much better to be digital currency. I do not like bitcoin as centralized currency because it will be under constitutional which is having a tax and the value is too higher than we expect.

Very interesting if Japan has made breakthrough progress in advance, I think they just used momentum from China, keep in mind if we talk about marketing plan, bitcoin future is very bright due to surge in the volume of outstanding, it is a success uncontested, if someday bitcoin shrink, will not reducing value of the currency itself. There is nothing better than this.

As long as there's no negative news that will impact the bitcoin ecosystem, I think bitcoin market price will continue to rise in the next months or so. If you would remember, the BU vs Core drama has is over for now and Japanese market come into picture, so making the price of bitcoin gain momentum for us. So yes, bitcoin future is very bright and we might experience a new ATH end of the year ($1500-$2000).

if you mean that in future bitcoin will be a known currency in online world then i think yes it will last for longer time in future because more and more people are entering in bitcoin community and adopting bitcoin.i also think that in future bitcoin will be more advance with revolutionary features, so it will be famous in future.

i think that the bitcoin future is very bright and such a minor problems will be solved very soon. i am hopeful that very soon people will be using bitcoin as fiat for buying and selling thing, but i think it will take some more time as still a very little number of people are using bitcoin.

The future of  bitcoin is very bright .Rich countries are adopting bitcoin very easily so it's price will be in future more than present time . the technical support of bitcoin is very fine. Bitcoin have some obstacles  like that bitcoin use in terrorist activity. Every thing has good side and bad side. All over bitcoin future is very good.

Definitely yes, no one can predict the future. We didn't have any idea if it is going to remain or replace by other type of coin.

I a gree with you . one of the problems faced by bitcoin today that crime is increasing. Cyber criminals use bitcoins as shipping addresses. As is the case with the current Wanna cry virus, this can create anxiety if bitcoin is used for a negative tear.

Yes, we all know the world's technology is very fast developing, it must be like that if you want to survive, should be able to place itself with the technology of the future, because it is not impossible in the future will emerge technologies such as bitcoin, more sophisticated, guarantee greater profits, Of course Internet users will choose something they think can guarantee a better profit, it becomes another bitcoin job, remains a popular digital currency, now and in the future, but I agree, now we have seen together, Bitcoin growing for be better, sought after by many and gaining great attention from all human groups, this is an indication that bitcoin can survive and adapt to the rapidly evolving and difficult technological developments of the world. Bravo bitcoin.

Bitcoin is actually the most profitable than the others, because if we look at all there is in the bitcoin investment, we do not just seek profit but looking for an excess of offer. Bitcoin is a place worthy of investment, so be smart people. If it is indeed less trust, you can see all the data. Where those who have great confidence would certainly benefit the good and profitable.But you need to know, to be able to benefit in the bitcoin then you have to have patience
 

This is a matter of global concern, although it has been solved by a young man; however, it is only a temporary solution. In just a short time, they will come up with other similar software to continue to make money. They are talented people, but they are not virtuous, and they will be punished.

I guess Ransomware and other criminal activities gives a double edge sword effect to Bitcoin because one thing is that it makes Bitcoin's image look bad but on the other hand the demand of it will increase as more and more people are buying Bitcoin in order to transact into this criminal activities. Even for a long long time ago the dark web had helped the growth of Bitcoin on where it is now. Because of making Bitcoin as their main currency it help its price to balloon in an upward momentum.

Future bitcoin very good, because bitcoin provides great benefits to users and holders. Limited supply of bitcoin is particular value to bitcoin as one of modern investment options.

There is no such thing as bad publicity. Regardless of how people view it just the fact that it gets in the news means more people take an interest and adopt the currency.

Bitcoin has not even begun to enter the mainstream. If it is going up like this now, its going to be off the charts when it finally does. Go long.

That alone doesn't make Bitcoin's image look bad

It is how it is being portrayed by the mass media which is what makes it look bad or even evil. If the news sources barely mention Bitcoin without giving their judgment on it (like "Bitcoin contributes to crime and violence"), Bitcoin's image remains mostly neutral (as I read it in the reports). I guess Bitcoin has already overgrown that point in its life when it could be easily pictured that way without raising a lot of eyebrows

I am sorry but i guess there is.  There is such thing as bad publicity.  If it gives you bad image on that news, then that is what we called bad publicity, it may help in awareness but in what way?  Bitcoin being an illegal tool?  So tell me how could this news about bitcoin being used in illegal stuff a good publicity?

Indeed.
The media controlled by the government made sure that it will be stuck in people's mind.
I only people will do research after the news is done. Then they would know the real truth.
Problem of the world now: A media controlled system.
Problem with peopel: They got stuck with what they say on television and they never moved forward into looking deeper just to make sure it is the truth.
The questioning mind of people had been lost, unlike before where every changes will be asked.
They are all happy with facebool now.

If that is the first time that they heard of it the initial impression man not be favorable. But the vast majority of the media portrays it as credible. Forbes, Fortune, WSJ etc. Very soon they will see it for what it is.

True, I am pretty sure that the people within the Government will begin to integrate Bitcoin into the common things that we use since Bitcoin is gaining a bunch of popularity among the civilians.

I just know that when the price drops a bunch the people that are relying on Bitcoin for them to survive will panic and there will be blood in the streets. We can only know when the time happens, since we can’t tell ones future on our own.

yeah the future of bitcoin will be more successful and i hope bitcoin will be use for direct shopping in the future and bitcoin will be bring more advantages for their users and we can get a good profit in the future if we hold our bitcoin for the future.

It is already in the mainstream but there are countries or big people that are stopping it because they know on what bitcoin can do to their businesses. The future of bitcoin is great and truly has the potential to make the people have a better way of living but there are some adjustments that the core needs to improve and upgrade.

I think the future of bitcoin will depends on the people who use it and also in the market.Then,all markets and all banks will accepted bitcoin and it may use in different kind of transaction.

It starts with the users, without us supporting bitcoin will not progress.
If this will grow it will benefit us especially those who invested, so it's a win win situation of us in the future.

This is really hard to foresee actually as Bitcointo replace the fiat system in the entire world since the price of Bitcoin is very unstable and fiat is a more easy to use in daily basis. I see Bitcoin to be a currency in cyberworld or in the international exchanges or transactions since it is much easy and less fee in sending money from abroad.

I'm sure the bitcoin is the future of the world financial system, rates are now more than $1900 and reached record highs, it is not hard to reach $10.000 a year again.

Oh, your predictions of God in your ears. I hope that what you said will all come true.

Definitely,bitcoin has a great future.It has the potential to last long in future.No other coin has capacity to replace it.As there is steady increase in order for buying bitcoins and since its supply is limited,its price would increase more.Since more countries and companies have started adopting bitcoin,it has a great future.

in my opinion, bitcoin has a bright future. dau by day it is getting popular and acceptable, in the virtual life bitcoin has already gained its platform so, I am optimistic about the future of bitcoin.

Agreed. The recent rise in price will gain some positive attention while trapping those that buy at the current high price for a few months.

It's because of rate adoption over bitcoin everyday by the whales and wall street corporates. If see the bitcoin in 2030, bitcoin will be use even in village of Africa. Everyone would aware of bitcoin and it would consider as international money to use in export and import between the countries. You will be able to buy the house also with bitcoins.

In a few more years, obtaining coins will be much easier.

Due to big adoptions of big countries onto bitcoin i think and i believe that yes bitcoin will be a future currency in further yesrs we will face,bitcoins has still lots of obstacles to go intoso bitcoins need support from countries adopted it to go further into it

And with this, bitcoin has a very bright future.It will continue to rise and accumulate more market capitalization. Several years from know, bitcoin will be accessible to all like a commodity.

When coins are easier to obtain then the weakest coins will be severed from the Top 50.

Governments accept bitcoin not because they want to do that but because the banks have told them to do it. For their part, banks are forced to accept it as a form of payment and as a commodity, because the bitcoin has a big user base, that is, has network effect. The latter also determines the future of the coin.

Bitcoin's future is a growing economy of digital currency which could not be a history now, and because $2000 is already reached now even though it's only a dream that has now coming to reality. The growing progress now is a proof of digital currency's influence to everybody, that brought freedom of financial sources to people who wanted progress in life as well as online income; which supports our daily lives spending.

You can't have a ''future proof'' but in my opinion bitcoin has only a way : to grow up :)

yes there is no doubt that bitcoin has a very bright future, bitcoin is becoming more and more popular from time to time,and therefore more and more people are joining bitcoin which is making bitcoin more and more stable, therefore i do not think that there is any doubt about the future of bitcoin.

There is actually a problem that bitcoin is currently facing right now and that is the traffic of the transactions because as the user's population is keep rising the transaction in every seconds are keep growing so the traffic of the bitcoin became more bigger too, I think bitcoin need an upgraded regarding to this so many and more people will invest in the bitcoin.

It is true that bitcoin future will experience both positive and negative sides. Because as the day goes by new problems may be found on bitcoin transaction and security. But the sure thing is the development and changes on bitcoin will never stop because it is inevitable. For now the developers could strengthen the security of bitcoin and develops its transaction for more people to get engage to bitcoin investments and businesses. The price of bitcoin will also change as more people will be on in using bitcoin and be open on accepting bitcoin in the future as it develops.

Development and changes or upgrade, all of that should be done immediately before we lose a number of users who are getting tired of the high fees.
This is new to everyone or maybe a good explanation should be spread to make sure that this will change soon.
They might go back to the way they do their transactions instead of just using bitcoin.

It is difficult to predict what exactly will happen with bitcoin, but within the next 2-3 years it will definitely exist and will be able to bring profit to its owners.

Since Bitcoin is getting credible and acceptable day by day, so I am really looking for a bright future of Bitcoin. One thing i want add that, every currency has been experiencing ups and downs so Bitcoin also faces same types of problem but it doesn't matter. Bitcoin will last at least two or three more decades.
Bitcoin will sustain.....

I can't understand with what you have said, within the next 2-3 years? Bitcoin will definitely exist? It's already existing and we are getting already a good profit if you are an investor or trader in bitcoin. I know the future of bitcoin is great and there will be a lot of new people that is interested to get in touch with this great coin