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Will bitcoin still be there in 2020 or will some other technology better than bitcoin take over?

I fully expect bitcoin to still be around in 2020 but your question should be do you think it will still have the same value. If a competitor cvoin pushes it out of the market then all the money thats currently in bitcoin could flow into whatever is the new coin at the time. Id say by 2030 bitcoin would be officialy dead though. I just think another coin will topple it eventually.

due to the increasing demand from 2009 to 2016 i highly likely suspect that bitcoin will surely be at the top at 2020. but still since technology is improving and more and more coins are coming i can say that there might be some coins who can give tough competition to btc.

2020 isn't that far away, which gives me total confidence of Bitcoin still being the main crypto currency. I don't even think something else will come even close in the coming 10 years. No need to worry about that. :)

bitcoin will survive as long as there is even one person using it.

but to stay on top that is another question. and i think by 2020 which is only 4 years from now i don't think bitcoin's position can be weakened. and bitcoin will stay on top and will even grow so much bigger.

bitcoin could survive from 2009 untill 2016 even though when it first appeared nobody thought bitcoin will be growth and reach the highest prices and regarding your questions i'm pretty sure with my opinion that bitcoin will still there in 2020 and other technology could not take over bitcoin

halving the next to fall in 2020, in fact I think when the price will rise higher.

I think bitcoin still strong enough to survive until 2030, and after that I do not know, if bitcoin depleted mined. the possibility in the future there will be new technologies.

Of course, it will happen until no one else is interested in bitcoin

these days I keep seeing the same question about another altcoin replacing bitcoin, I mean it has always been one of the biggest questions among bitcoin users but not this much. do "you" have any specific reason for asking this right now.

but to answer your question; from what I have witnessed so far from bitcoin I come to believe that bitcoin has a pretty good future and will grow a lot more in a couple of years which may very well be 2020. so in short , no nothing will take over bitcoin by 2020. but there is always new technologies that hasn't been invented yet which can start to compete with bitcoin in the future.

i have no doubts about bitcoin being still here in the year 2020. by that time the next block halving will happen where block rewards will drop to 6.25btc per block.

2020? Omg yes of course! That's 4 years away! What do you think's going to happen? Some implosion of the world? Bitcoins are here to stay for a hell of a lot longer than 4yrs.

Maybe both.

There is no reason to Bitcoin disappear in less than 4 years, but it is more than enough for a "better"(of course there are different definitions of what "better") appear.

But Bitcoin also is the infrastructure, not only the tech, and infrastructure won't appear overnight, no matter how good the tech is

I think bitcoin will be used forever, and probably will grow. use of which has many advantages compared to the other will make bitcoin be better, and will be used as laternatif payments in the future, I believe bitcoin will be increasingly important as the current dollar in the future, and the price will certainly be high and stable

It will definitely still be around as it is only a few years away, price wise it could be anything at all hopefully in the region of double what it is now.

I think bitcoin will still alive in that year because more and more people are using bitcoin and we are growing. so  bitcoin will still survive..
and more store will accept bitcoin as payment and more hi-tech will be release with bitcoin..

of course bitcoin will still be around, bitcoin is the main cryptocurrency and other technologies are not needed in my opinion because it is nearly perfect in my opinion

Bitcoin is here for 6 years already and bitcoin will go nowhere in 2020. Because the world is changing to use bitcoin. People will use bitcoin a lot when in 2020. Just trust me.

It will stay here until a new thing will make obsolete Bitcoin and most important the blockchain protocol/technology.

It's hard to tell if it will survive or not. That's why it is a high risk investment. I am counting on bitcoin being around for a long time to I am putting a lot of time in to it. Hopefully it will pay off for us.

As long as there is a computer running the protocol, Bitcoin will be alive. Can't see it happening in the next decades.

But the blockchain technology is immortal

all these people who say as long as it's running on one computer don't really get the point. everything survives if that's the case.

will it survive and still be thriving? I believe so. most alts are too blinded by greed or incompetence. every day it stays above ground makes it stronger and harder to catch but there'd better be some solutions to the current gripes

so that is something like all the time in the future only when there will be the end of the world bitcoin will stop existing and i think it is a really good thing because bitcoin is great

Bitcoin has one specific advantage, and that's network effect. However, I love also Monero.  ;)

i think 4 years is a very short time for a new technology to take over bitcoin. although i am one of those people who believe that other altcoins have a good chance of growing big and becoming popular like bitcoin but taking over needs bitcoin to be obsolete and the other technology to be super good. so it needs a longer time.

i can't even understand what the fuck you are trying to say here, but i guess bitcoin is at dangerous if few asic will mine it, so the "as long as there is at least one computer mining it" it's not really synonymous of something good

This is a question that nobody is bale to answer because we do not know the answer, many things can happen with Bitcoin in the future.
It can be taken over by a bank it can disappear but it can also be going really good with it.

That's the reality, anything would happen with bitcoin. But the possibility for banking with bitcoin won't happen because the unique decentralization of crypts gets affected. Possibly bitcoin lasts longer as calculated based upon halvings.

bitcoin will continue to survive until 2140 after bitcoin depleted mined. but for a new technology that will compete with bitcoin, did not rule out the possibility of it will occur in the future.

Future is quite uncertain however within next 4 years i am not seeing any other alts replacing bitcoin. Atleast blockchain tech will now live till humanity however bitcoin can also survive because it can self balance itself even many miners leave and it don't get lot more support.

If everyone with an interest in the well being of the future of BTC would buy just 1 simple full node such as the one designed by Chris Ellis to run on a Rasberry PI, there'd be a heck of a lot of distribution geographically to keep the network stable (well under $80-90ish I think), even if it didn't contribute a lot in terms of PetaHash/s.

2020 is not far from now on so i think it will survive till then and much more longer than that.
I just hope i lasts forever.

Now bitcoin has got its roots firmed in the world financial system, now we cannot think that bitcoin will disappear from among us, now bitcoin is going to become a normal currency of the world. so it will survive for longer.

Forever is not possible, but it should be able to exist at least for a few decades. Till then many altcoins will compete but in the end bitcoin will win. Then something completely new will be invented.

There are some altcoins today that hold great promises.

What are the chances of something completely new and better than bitcoin being invented?

Blockchain is technology and that is new, I don't believe we will see something new in some close period of time. Bitcoin opened a door into something new, and even now we see some altcoins try to find their place on global market. Normally that we will see new things, but btc will be one and only, first of its kind. Anything new that we see, will come from bitcoin idea. Cause of that btc will last much longer then some people think.

of course bitcoin will survive till then, in my opinion it will go o n for a couple of centuries because it is a really great technology that people will use

Once the userbase of bitcoin increases there will also be many challenges that bitcoin will need to overcome before it can become a normal currency.

i think bitcoin will be more strong and powerful currency in 2020 than other currency and i think  bitcoin will be survive always and other technology could not take over bitcoin because bitcoin technology will be more advance and strong in 2020.

i am pretty sure that bitcoin will be alive till 2030 at least, because for now there are so many bitcoin users and it's price is pretty large too

one important thing is to increase the block size to 2mb as that will be enough for the coming 2 to 4 years. and maybe that the core developers will also release a light weight wallet. and yes, i know there are already light weight wallets from other parties.

As long as people support bitcoin, but and sell it, trade for altcoins and vice versa. Many businesses operate on bitcoin and I don't think that they will bankrupt so easy. On 2020 is the next halving so I believe that until that time the price of bitcoin will be much more than now.

of course people will keep on buying and selling their bitcoins, in my opinion because of that the price of it is going to grow a lot in the near future and survive for centuries

Century has 100 years!! There are other technologies that have their impact on bitcoin indirectly, for example the quantum computers which are very dangerous if they are produced in the next decade, which can bruteforce mostly everything including private keys.

At least a couple of decades maybe more, but what we have seen today is not even a few percent of bitcoin's potential.
Bitcoin as a currency has a good future, bright if you compare it with today's currency's

bitcoin will continue to survive as long as its user community remains large
more and more users will get better and the price will further rise
those which are called the laws of economics support and demand
high sipport payment store online use bitcoin is very good

Bitcoin now is becoming more popular because of advertisements and others. Actually im telling this to all my friends so they can know more about bitcoins. I guess bitcoin will still exist in 2020. Hopefully it keeps rising its value for every year of its existence. Actually bitcoin are accepted by many countries so no way bitcoin will vanish

Yes, for as long as there are transactions involving bitcoin, it will surely have a life. Therefore, like many of us are doing, we should continue to make bitcoin an alternative currency and keep doing our transactions, whether it is trading, buying, using for other payments and what have you. But, only mass adoption can guarantee a long, secured and stable life for bitcoin.

The thing that will kill BitCoin is the very thing it's corner stone is made of:  The Blockchain.  Having 100+ Gig on a portable device for day to day transactions is very unrealistic unless the price of high volume storage and lightning fast broadband every where cost fractions of pennies.

This literally makes no sense. You don't need 100 gigs for a mobile wallet. You need maybe 25-50mb for a decent wallet...not sure where you are getting this from. I haven't used the Core client in a long time but back when I did yes you needed to download the whole blockchain, but I have a feeling that was more for functioning as a node as well. Could be wrong on that, but today you don't need to download the entire blockchain to use a wallet.

It will depend a lot on how people will use it. We have also to consider that, over the time, different new technologies may emerge and Bitcoin would have to evolve as well. We can't really predict for sure, but I think Bitcoin has potential to be here for the next centuries.

Not sure how long Bitcoin is going to survive but I hope that it is going to exist for a long time because Bitcoin really has the potential to become something big.
So if they make the right moves and with some luck they can become really big.

if internet still exist in 2020, and people still using bitcoin to make transaction in cryptocurrency, then bitcoin will be still exist and maybe in 2020, the rate will be high as now. everything is possible and everything can happen as long as there are support for bitcoin from bitcoin commmunity itself and from people which using bitcoin for transaction and this will make bitcoin stay for longer than we can imagine.

huh why are you thinking that in 2020 internet have the possibility to not exist? the technology growing up day by day even there's also a project that named IoT (Internet of Things) that will let every app connected to internet to be functioning so internet will be exist till 2020

I also think that bitcoin is still going to be around in 2020 but 2020 is not that far anymore. I wonder what the value of the Bitcoin is going to be at that point.
We just have to wait it out and see what is going to happen with Bitcoin the next few years.

Yeah 4 years left to 2020. The developments in bitcoin isn't like how it was a few years ago.

If we want to reach a great price point by 2020 we need to increase the developments in the bitcoin technology.

No one can predict this but I think it can survive very long and after a while it will not be surviving and more due to the fact that its becoming bigger and bigger.
Once on a time it will get stable and a global currency believe me.

Well, it's hard to predict how long will bitcoin survive but as long as people keep using bitcoin, bitcoin will survive. I think it's depend on the bitcoin user and the price of bitcoin.

Don't know about you, but my Bitcoins will survive even after I am dead, so I would say forever.

The question is: Will bitcoin keep getting bigger and bigger and remain as the number 1 cryptocurrency?

yeah i think 10 years if bitcoin still alive and kicking it will continue more and if more adoption will come it will live long.. so for now just enjoy while you are collecting bitcoins here. the more you hold the more you can make a good profit in the future.

in my opinion, the longer, bitcoin will be growing, even more so in the future. it will make the future become more colorful in terms of transactions and in making money. bitcoin could be an alternative for people who do not have jobs, so that bitcoin will always be used

I would like to say that bitcoin is the future of the world and it can be the future of the US dollar. Bitcoin is the potential money which is gonna be so costlier stock of the world. As you said we can hold some bitcoins to have a profit in a future.

Bitcoin hold the future of online payments, that the most we can see bitcoin get out of it. And if bitcoin manages to reach it's ultimate potential we shouldn't be surprised that bitcoin will be used for the next few decades to come.

This thread is ridiculous. Talking about Bitcoin survival, and not talking about Blockstream and scalability turmoil. Fuckin' blind people.

if still communty bitcoin big
and this community still use bitcoin
and this dev open source still develop bitcoin, bitcoin survive and not die

We are heading towards the more advanced digital age and everything is becoming more and more digitalized. So we can expect bitcoin or some other digital currency to really make bigger waves for years to come. Maybe not in the next five or ten years, but more like fifty years from now.

True, we shouldnt be surprised when that thing happen since as we can see as of  now its being  gradually being used but  not fully  but for sure it would progress more in upcoming years and    would surely used by everyone. Well no one knows what would happen but  we based our speculation on the things that we are already experiencing  now  on bitcoin.

I goes nothing can ever put Bitcoin down unless the whole internet gets taken down. Bitcoin is just a data and you surely can't kill a data, you can only wipe it or remove your availability to access that data. A lot of people are looking forward to things about Bitcoin, if there would be a minor bug in the Bitcoin system (even if there's not any), then somebody from the Bitcoin community can surely fund to fix it or fix it himself.

The bitcoin will survive a long time without any doubts, I think the bitcoin has great future a head and its growing everyday, more people are joining everyday.
If it stays like this it will get big and I think it than also will survive very long.

I agree with this I think the same thing that Bitcoin would survive for long as long it's been used b lots of people and as you said it's growing everyday and also becomes popular and this thing would surely contribute on Bitcoins ecosystem to last long in upcoming future.

As long as people haven't turned back into the barter system, Bitcoin will still be there. As long as people are using fiat, Bitcoin will be there. And it doesn't seem that people will stop using fiat, that means bitcoins will be used by people for a long time as well. Basically as long as the fiat money and Internet exists, Bitcoin will be there.

Bitcoins will survive as long as various governments allow it to.  :)
About other technology, it is impossible to even dream up ways in which technology will evolve.

If not bitcoin it's the technology that will survive and advance.

I dont know if bitcoin will be used in everyone soon and we cant say that if the bitcoin will be there on that year because its just  a speculation but in bitcoin that is used by everyone i think it is very difficult because lot of country now is in 3rd world country and not most advance like use. Lot of people dont know how to use the technology thats why.

It is 100% surety that bitcoin will be remain in 2020, no doubt on it.
But the other point is that bitcoin would be on the top or other crypto currency has come in its place?
So now it is that time, a huge people are using different currency but still they are also using bitcoin and bitcoin has give us more profit than other crpto currencies.

yeahthe real technology revolution here is the blockchain not bitcoin itself, and it is why all the other coin are mere clone, because they operate with the blockchain too, the blockchain alone is worth to me more than the entire market cap of gold, if only people were not that blind like you said

Too many altcoins are introduced in blockchain as you said above. But bitcoins' value stays up. The value of it really draws so many into it. More are tend to fall into this forum to experience this fruits as all others. I  am sure though many altcoins would be introduced, the bitcoins would remain in its place. I wish this should be adapted as own currency throughout.

Yes actually if even bitcoin didn't survive long, the tech behind it blockchain will advance and will survive adapting to every changes/evolution tech will have. Power of decentralization and anonymity will be things everybody in the world will start to talk about and realize in future.

The time span of bitcoin of bitcoin is not certain. It can last decades but for that reason it can also last a few years. Looking at the technology and the goal behind bitcoin, my guess is that bitcoin will last perhaps 40 years.

After this period we will use a bitcoin 4.0 kind of currency.

yes it is right that bitcoin will be the future online currency and a time will come when it will become an essential part of our life, as in present time we cannot suppose with out our fiat currency similarly in future we will not suppose the world without bitcoin.

2020 is very close.I think bitcoin will survive next 100 years also.If you can see from 2009 to 2016 how much increased  bitcoin price.Bitcoin will reach the moon for her anonymity.there is no payment system you can hide how much worth you are without bitcoin.People now dont want to share how much money they have thats the key to increased bitcoin price.

Anonymity is not the strong feature of Bitcoin. There are multiple other alts, which have stronger privacy features.
The recent rise of Monero is due to people realizing its superior anonymity features.

My cutoff date is 2020. If it's looking broadly similar to where it is now in terms of actual user activity then I'll probably reconsider my position. The way it's set up is rather shark like. It needs to keep on moving and growing if it's to survive.

That's the point and there lies my concern.

Will bitcoin keep moving and growing in the coming years or will the growth stop and cause bitcoin to die off?

That's what I'm thinking too that one alt already surpass Bitcoin anonymity which is monero and it's widely used already on dark net which also have the potential to grow or develop in upcoming years but we'll Bitcoin has already got its pace which is somehow I could say that it would survive for long.

We never know how long bitcoin will survive. But, i think bitcoin can survive until long time, maybe until the next 5-20 years. As long as the bitcoin's price keep high, i'm sure bitcoin will survive.

If a cryptocurrency is widely used in the dark net it would result in major news outlets trashing the coin and cause investors to loose faith in the currency.

As gentlemand mentioned bitcoins needs to move and grow to remain the most popular cryptocurrency.

You are right but I also think that this is possible, the bitcoin has a great future and there is a big crowd for it also, it can become the future currency if you are asking me about it.
Its just how you are looking to it, it has a good future and can grow fast in a short time so that is good news.

More probably monero wil be shutdown if FBI have its attention in it.  Anyway I don't think any altcoin have the capacity to replace bitcoin in the next 4 years, or if there is one it is not yet created.  i think in terms of technology and security, bitcoin will keep on upgrading and evolving since all the developer of BTC are very active, besides, as of now  no other altcoinn have surpassed the number of bitcoin base users.  Bitcoin industry is still young, there are lots of room to grow unless abandoned by its developer I can see a continous growth of bitcoin in terms of economiy and technology.

The good thing about cryptocurrencies is that they cannot be taken down or regulated by the government.

But governments can ban the usage of certain cryptocurrency if its mostly used for illegal business.

The bitcoin has a good future but no one can predict this, I think we just have to see what is gonna happen with it, hopefully the bitcoin is gonna rise to a higher amount very soon.
It has a great future so that is nice, I think that it will survive a long time!

It's going to survive until the governments are going to do something about/with it, or as soon as a bad event (financial crash) takes place. I hope none of these will though .. I think we all do.

Bitcoin has such big market that I still believe price changes wont crash it at all.
It will live very long, very very long. Most likely never die.

until 2020 definitely we will still use bitcoin, after that i would say yes, maybe it will be less used if a new technology will appear but we will find some people using it just like coal and electricity  ;)

No one will take it over.  It will stay until the earth is still revolving and the sun still shining. ;D  No one can state until up to what time bitcoin will still evolve but the fact that many people are using it then it would suggest that it keeps on until people continue to support it.  You might be surprise that one day all people uses it just like an ordinary currency.  We never know.

2020 is another bitcoin achievement to be reach if this coin will be alive for that time around but i really want to see bitcoins to be alive forever so we can earn continously eventhough we are grands, but bitcoin existance are all matters to the people if they will still believe in this coin provably this coin would last for many decades of existance. So let's raise the demands so bitcoins would be more alive and healthy to its finest.

If a financial crash happens it would be good for bitcoin because people will start seeing hope in the digital currency.

Let's just hope a financial crisis doesn't happen again.

I have 100% trust that Bitcoin will stay for a very long time despite people doubting it. It has emerged as a perfect solution for the current economic crunch. Relying on fiat currency alone will not help so much but with bitcoin and its technology, I hope economies will stabilize.

I will be using bitcoin to 30-40 years in the future and I also believe bitcoin can last up to 40 years at least. the development of technology is always growing rapidly and currently all the technology has always been at the forefront. so bitcoin will be great in the future with the technology of the currency which is better than anything.

very long
but bitcoin is still community use, the big community still use bitcoin
bitcoin always run and survive, but no one pople use bitcoin i think same with altcoin can't use only wait to die

30-40 years is a really long time to make speculations about.

Many changes will need to be made to the bitcoin technology to help it survive for the next 10 years.

Predicting about the bitcoin's survival is really hard. Based upon the calculation as well its potential bitcoin is expected to last for years more than that is calculated. Also if this technology gets faded soon some other technology emerges to take its place.

I think it is not about how long bitcoin can or will survive, but how much it can affect people's lives in its existence. Because even if it gets to survive for a long time and still few people are using it, then that cannot be considered a success. If it somehow makes it to the mainstream consciousness and people get to know how to take advantage of what it can offer, then that is going to make it worth all the efforts of the bitcoin developers.

Unless we suffer from a global scale war with EMP bombs all over the places, or big farms get attacked with this kind of weapon BTC will always survive. Also, BTC dies if the earth is struck by a big meteor that destroys all intelligent life.

Bitcoin will pretty survive as long as they are using bitcoins and bitcoin for sure it will take long defore it gone for sure and if they are new investors who are using bitcoin then probably thats the reason why bitcoin is still alive because of the lovely user of bitcoin everyday.

4 years from now and expecting a downfall for bitcoin?

Well no basis or any factors that it may happen to bitcoin so just enjoy whatever benefits you are getting from using this currency.

definitely right since technology always growing up more better day by day,thus make bitcoin's unpredictable whether how long it could survive
people will always seeking the best choice and every technology just released,they will come up having such a unique technology and helpful too
so just use bitcoin while it still alive as ordinary currency

Its because its existence is unpredictable thats why we cant really tell when it die and would it really last forever but aslong as bitcoin got many users well provably its existence will go more longer and i think the bitcoins would last for more decades since adoption are great nowadays and numbers of user keep multiplying so thats why bitcoins have great possibilities to take more longer.

i hope too, bitcoin will reach more people on over country and more people will be used bitcoin for transaction. without more people involve in cryptocurrency, there is no hope to survive.

for bitcoin, i think it will survive for about 10 years or soo but its back to the people which using bitcoin itself.

Bitcoin can greatly grown and will be able to follow the development of time if you can always have a good change. And it is quite possible to bitcoin could last until 2020. I believe bitcoin will not last very long because bitcoin could develop.

I dont think that the bitcoin will survive very long because as you can see allot of people sold their bnitcoins allready and i dont think that some other people loved to hold them if the price is only dropping?

It is not possible to bitcoin to be downfall or the price drope if there are exchange website will be "HACKED" i think or some investors are going to give up using bitcoins in the next 5-10 years and bitcoin will not be survive for that but we can't predict what really happens on that day.

You are right buddy,  I think that bitcoin will be great currency in future and I will live long with the help of great potential which have from bitcoin side.  It will move than 1000 years from now.

The potential is great, if you ask me, we aren't seeing even 10% of bitcoin's potential. But it takes to develop bitcoin, so it can grow. Having said that there will be an end time for bitcoin, because mining and the miners eventually will not get paid substantially and so the eco-system will die.

hope we will not experience these dreadful situation, to me bitcoin will survive for a long long time because more people are joining bitcoin and they are investing their assets in bitcoin which is making bitcoin more and more strong.

I think most of us will, but they will be retired having earned on bitcoin so not a really big deal.
But the time will last long, before such a thing will happen. I predict over 30 years or longer.

Theres no need  for a catastrophic event just to kill bitcoin. one big EMP would do already  which could interfere the  internet and other electrical connections. You are right   bitcoin would stay long   for more years since  people are still using it and  people do join and  intend to  invest more on bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the greatest invention in digital technology in this century we are living. As long as the internet will survive, so will bitcoin.

I expect it to continue to be used for another 20-30 years at least without any problem or interference. I just hope the developers don't rush to do the Hard Forking after what's happened with the Ethereum hack.

Other than that I don't see any problem for bitcoin even in the coming years.

Yup, I think it will survive for long years, only that it will be a roller coaster ride... We can't expect the price to go stable, there will always be ups and downs but the good thing is it won't die... It already prove itself for the past years that it made a lot of swings...It floats like a rubber in the water...  :)

Forever. People love bitcoin.

It is better for traders if bitcoin price fluctuates once in a while so you can have opportunity to enter a new trade.  If it is very stable and does not move, it will be very boring for traders. And that is why it will linger for a very long time. Traders and speculators will continue to support bitcoin.

I guess as long as the Internet exists and the blockchain is running, Bitcoin will survive. Economically, Bitcoin will survive as long as there is no coin that will surpass bitcoin. It's quite hard to say, though, that Bitcoin will survive forever because there's a lot of things that can happen on the Internet in such short time.

yes , absolutely but i will say not in 2020 but with per year the bitcoin will be upgrated with new technology feature . that will make future of bitcoin very Bright .

This is true.
As long as people mine and trade Bitcoin it will have value and therefore continue existing.
Furthermore it is right that we have no clue if Bitcoin can or will be replaced by another coin.
However this coin must have similat features.Meaning a finite coin supply, open and accessible for everyone.Decentralized and censorshop resistent with the possibility of open innovation on top of it.
Anything else is negotiable.

I don't see any reason for bitcoin to die within 2020, it may survive till we all live. Technology is advancing everyday however i am quite sure bitcoin will also keep on advancing to become more secure everyday.

yes until something truly revoluzionary and better than bitcoin come out, not talking about altcoin clone lol, bitcoin will live forever and the blockchain will live without a doubt forever, it's a great project

yes I believe bitcoin will continue to survive for a long time, even until bitcoin depleted mined in decades will remain alive. This is the best technology I've ever found. bitcoin currency could be a good future.

2020 is only 4 years away. There are enough die-hard investors, who will stay invested at least until the next halving.
No matter what the bad news is, their faith in the system is unshakeable.

I also think the bitcoin will survive longer and it also has a good future a head so I think that it will survive very long.
The bitcoin will take over the world soon or later.

Own my prediction i dont know it feels like bitcoin will never be dead as long as they are user who gonna use it make sense people if you are using one thing it will never be dead if you treat them right

Bitcoin as it is, is already top secure where the network that powers Bitcoin is increasing in power year on year. Even with blocks containing just half the rewards compared to before the block halving, the difficulty is still increasing. And with that, the network is getting even more secure. However, what also important is, is that we focus on preventing centrality under farms. It's not a good thing that one entity with several farms owning the major part of the network.

In precious metals forums I notice people interested in bitcoin but not alts

This is a good indication that bitcoin is going to survive for a long time and I guess it doesn't need to survive either what people must do is adoption.

So when bitcoin is going to be adopted already people are going to use it for daily lives and it is going to be the medium of our currency.

And it is going to be our need for our daily life as an exchange for the fiat money.

they interested in bitcoin as investment right? instead as payment option.
bitcoin as investment more popular out there isntead as a currency, a digital currency.
it is okay , they know as investment at first time but slowly they will know and feel comfortable use bitcoin as currency. more investors more time to bitcoin to survive.

Yeah, i'm sure in 2020 people will still using bitcoin and bitcoin will survive. For me, bitcoin can survive forever if people keep using bitcoins, if the people stop using bitcoin anymore, bitcoin will dead for sure.

You guys act like Bitcoin is written in stone or something. All Bitcoin needs to do is update and hardfork to adapt any tech a new coin offers. Bitcoin isn't failing, whoever thinks that is an idiot.

Of course it will.  And by that time many people were already familiar on what bitcoins can do.  The life of bitcoin is dependant to us.  If many people will continue supporting it then bitcoin will still be around even beyond 2020.  It id always depends on us.  So if you want bitcoins to last we should help each other on that goal.

No one knows.

Too many variables.

it could be killed from the inside, like it seems some are trying right now.

it could be replaced by altcoins.

it could be killed from the outside.

But the longer bitcoin stays the top dog of crypto, the less likely it will be destroyed, however it's never quite 0%.

Bitcoin may well survive at least another 30 to 50 years. By that time, most of the coins are mined and miners are surviving on transaction fees as the block reward (at 0.02 BTC) would be too small by then. We will be at the 12th reward era, but as early as the 7th era 99% of all bitcoins have already been mined, so the next 50 to 100 years it's almost just all transaction fees.

The 8th era is estimated to be 2036, but if history is any indication, we get there a year or two faster than what we can estimate today, so maybe 2034 or 2035. By 2032, the block reward is under a whole bitcoin or about 0.78 BTC.

If bitcoin survives in 30 years, then it will likely survive for another 30 after that.

i think no one can say anything so sure about bitcoin that how long will it say, but i am hopeful that bitcoin is going to be one of the best world crypto currency and it will stay for ever and people will use it as a currency for buying and selling every thing.

bitcoin has become the best in the cryptocurrency and no one can compete with bitcoin maybe never be replaced by another cryptocurrency as long those still interested with cryptocurrency.

I think upto next 15 years, no other cryptocurrency could replace the no.1 position of Bitcoin.

Even after that also, Bitcoin would still survive but may be not in the top position.

Until that time, Bitcoin holders will enjoy greater benefits

Do you think that any other crypto currency will have potential to get the No.1 position ?
No, there is no any altcoin which has that much potential to overcome the speed of bitcoin. Bitcoin is much faster at it way to success and all other coins are much behind from it.