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I was just wondering, what would it take for the Bitcoin Network to be shutdown completely?

Well, no electricity, and no internet connection would kill BTC for sure! You wouldn't be able to make any transactions without these.
Other issue can be all the countries in the world ban BTC, but this will not restrict it's circulation, as no internet connection do!

I agree if we dont have electrixity and internet bitcoin will die because it digital coin.

Can the Government step in?? I guess so

To be able to completely shut down the Bitcoin network all Bitcoin nodes should be destroyed which is those computers that runs bitcoin client software and has a blockchain on it. It's impossible to do that since Bitcoin nodes are spreading worldwide. Other ways to shutdown bitcoin, If all people lose interest using it, All countries ban of using it, Government shuting down electricity and internet connections. These are all possible scenarios but highly unlikely to happen.

in myself bitcoins is not shutdown, because every minutes bitcoins is high and high demand in every country, so many renewable energy technology is made, so bitcoins is not shutdown in electricity issues. on internet issue many of country has a free internet in super high speed internet connection, if many people loves bitcoins, so many people invented the way that the bitcoins prevent shutdown ;)

as far as I know the bitcoin archive are in for conditioning,hard drive so no electricity, no internet not kill it. However it will not be traded, only exists in the form of worthless. no electricity, no internet, the world will going back to Neolithic

You guess so? The government could regulate Bitcoin into oblivion if they really wanted to, the government has this sort of power to be able to kill Bitcoin off at any moment. Some governments have already taken these steps but, none of the bigger ones GDP wise has.

Electricity going down would cause internet, all the miners, nodes, and so on to also go down. So that'd take the rug out from under BTC

To many operating systems && other communications .nets, the real question would be "can you shut down entire operating systems, radio or television"? Sure, but IT would take mountains to move && or what would be the outcome of such an idea?

No need to think of such a shut down. It's time for us to think about the further development, because its clear that the blockchain technology is gonna make a big change in all sectors when implemented. As a beginning, at present there are several firms that have started to use the blockchain technology.

which can close this bitcoin is when the world has experienced electricity crisis and no internet network anywhere. Because bitcoin work system is a virtual world which in this case requires the internet media.

Bitcoin will still be there even without electricity or internet, it will just be not accessible. For the government to shutdown bitcoin, it takes all the countries in the world to do that. If bitcoin will be regularized in some countries while some not, then bitcoin will still be existent. Maybe what can make bitcoin of no value or void is another cryptocurrency taking its place.

not just bitcoins that die if the electricity is turned off and the internet network removed. even the world will become chaotic, bitcoin will actually live even if electricity and internet die but access to use bitcoin missing, yaa this is actually our fear all, because I am sure 80% in this forum only have income through forum

Bitcoin still exist, but it'll completely make bitcoin stopped or can't active. all the hashpower is gone, none of transaction will be confirmed, even sending transaction is impossible, that mean in practical use, once internet destroyed, bitcoin will be gone.

It would be extremely difficult given the moderate amount of decentralisation in play

Making of new Bitcoins might stop. But it's circulation won't. As people who would have a hope that Bitcoin would return will exist so, it won't completely get disappeared. But if one has to completely shutdown btc, there should be no electricity and internet. Only then might Bitcoin get completely of no use!

If you mean shutting down your own Network, I guess yes. That's is the best way anyone who don't like Bitcoin can  stayoff without hurting the general Bitcoin Network. Global shutdown is impossible without shutting down the internet aswell.

I think the only thing that make bitcoin shutdown completely is that if we lost our connection to bitcoin and most especially is the internet to work with bitcoin.

How will bitcoin shut down if there isn't even anyone that has full control over it? Bitcoin is a decentralized bitcoin currency and yes there might be times that someone can try to manipulate the price but that will only be to a certain extent. As long as there is a demand for bitcoin it will never cease to exist.

that right, bitcoin still exist but It cannot be traded, it became not worth. bitcoin is money but cannot exchange it is removed.

bitcoin can only be used by connecting through the internet network, the loss of internet network in the world will make all kinds of digital currency extinct because of the factors supporting the use of digital currency is the internet network itself. But the source of electricity is also a major factor causing the loss of internet network, so bitcoin will disappear even will be extinct due to these two factors, the absence of power source and internet network.

I think that the actions of governments who want to ban bitcoins will be directed towards the prohibition of exchange transactions in Fiat. But it will not make sense if by that time there will be a trade bitcoins online shops. In some countries, users will have to convert the bitcoins to Fiat in exchange of other countries and send money from abroad to your Bank account.

I do not think that this network can now turn off something. It is not fixed for oil or gold. BitCoin costs about as much as it promises. Well, if you think globally, it can be set by another crypto currency.

We can access btc because we had internet connection so without internet connection would kill btc because it's mean we can acces it and without electricity we can acces our hardware so without electricity and internet will kill btc for sure.

No but there will be strict worldwide government financial regulation.

Yes, there are several factors which could cause the wind up of the entire Bitcoin network but almost 99% of them are more theoretical and there is not even a little possibility of such incidents taking place.

However, while taking into consideration there are some practical causes which might cause trouble to the smooth functioning of the Bitcoin network and fork is the best example of it. Bitcoin is the only thing that could wind up Bitcoin.

I think it will never happen, what I know is bitcoin has no data center. So each peer has the contribution in bitcoin transaction. So I don't believe that bitcoin can be shutdown by people.

All things has their limitation internet is the main medium of bitcoin if the internet stops working bitcoin will stop too and If the government do intervention in bitcoin and banned it world wide.

I think there is no chance to shutdown Bitcoin. Generally it depends on internet connection based electricity. We are live in modern age now. So electricity and internet connectivity are available and will be future. Besides it, probably government can avoid this in some county but all over the world, it will be running.

I don't think so. I think the bitcoin community will not be shut down, because there are lots of people using it around the world. In that case, the one who shut it down will receive tons of complains. Therefore, I think it can be shutdown, but no one dared yet. Lol.  ;D

maybe bitcoin will shut down due to zombie apocalypse, hehehehhe just kidding, I think the most plausible is when government bans everything that is cryptocurrency, and bitcoin is dead

Bitcoin cannot be ever shutdown but if we are going to talk about the possible problems that we can encounter then i can say that bitcoin will not be able to be shutdown unless the internet will be turned off, the life and the access to bitcoin is from the internet so as long as the internet is alive then shutting down the bitcoin will not happen anytime.

Big yes for that the only big problem of bitcoin is if you dont have a enternet connection then you cannot do a transaction via offline method i hope someday developers can find a ways to change this fact

I dont tthink anything can ever shutdown bitcoin down, except if we don't have access to electricity or internet anymore, for some reason haha.

bitcoin will never be shutdown even the most powerful people in the world cant shutdown bitcoin or government cant shutdown the only government choice is to ban it on their country since shutdown is not possible. satoshi himself can possibly shutdown bitcoin since he is the one who made it.

I think the government can not kill Bitcoin. The Government can only intervene to price of the bitcoin but can't sutdown it almost everyone agrees Bitcoin only die when no internet

Aside from the obvious internet connection, if you mean by bitcoin network, then if all developers will forcely shut it down, it will be possible. Or if it didn't work out then it will be literally shutdown once community will  never used this currency.

Anyways what you meant here? Literal shutdown or bitcoin network that isn't accessible?

The value of bitcoin is very large and very unlikely that it will happen. I am sure if there are still using bitcoin then bitcoin will still exist.
bitcoin will not stop and die, this is the law of a currency. as long as we need bitcoin then we will still see that bitcoin still has value and can be traded.

Never happen this guys. If have a dead day

It can be shutdown of course.  Well maybe the government will intervene but it seems impossible because of different views on bitcoin.  Absolutely if there would be no internet and no electricity.  And that is also impossible.  So I guess it is not possible for bitcoin to be shutdown.

There are chokepoints like the exchanges or businesses, which might hurt the price a bit but long term it is incredibly hard/impossible to shut down. Really only the liquidity would be really hurt.

I dont know what's on your mind.
too weird a question that not many people think. you don't have to think about things that will not find the absolute and true answer. they are just opinions and opinions. so why not plan for the future bitcoin or crypto? think back.

Why not ? What had started has to end , let it take alot of time but will end one day. No matter Bitcoin is the first decentralised leading crypto currency, it can end anytime and we can't do anything about it. But you don't have to worry about that now , I don't feel that there is anything that will stop Bitcoin now because Bitcoin is on a rise and there is no stopping now.

which can shutdown the bitcoin is an internet connection that provides services to bitcoin, which can make  bitcoin can not access by many people. and also country regulation can make  shutdown of bitcoin

Electricity and internet connection, these both things are important for bitcoin and play an important part in bitcoins life. Of course you can't access your wallet without internet and electric power. Bitcoin is completely depends on both For example for mining you need electricity,  for trade you need internet.

YES, Definitely,
turn down the electricity all over the world and you will be sure that bitcoin will no longer exist!

What do you think about decentralized exchanges like Bisq? Shouldn't they be unable to be shut down? I agree that they have nowhere near the volume of the larger exchanges but if the governments really started squeezing, how many people do you think would move over? Could it become the new norm?

I basically disagree on its shutdown. The nodes widespread is quite enormous and secured. It has come to stay for real. I believe it is being incorporated now into payment systems in some important places and meaning so meaning nothing can go wrong. And finally, since bitcoin thrives on the internet and electricity, it will take a ripple damaging effect from them to affect bitcoin's shutdown.

The chance of government shoting down bitcoin is not realistic because countrie have different policy .i think bitcoin remain whatever circumstances .Internet,electricity will continue to running  bitcoin development. 

1 government that has already declared itself to be an Enemy of Bitcoin (tm) could suddenly confiscate 80% of all existing mining hardware, and optionally attack the blockchain with it.

Governments can always get involved to shut bitcoin down, just like China did and there isn't much we can do.

I think no because it is hard to shutdown.  See the torrent file sharing?  They can shutdown the site but they will never remove peers that were sharing the files.  Same thing with bitcoin.  As long as there is one person broadcasting the nodes and mining the chain, bitcoin will never be shutdown.  That is the beauty of open sourced decentralized technology.

Well it is possible to that bitcoin may shut down because of the following reasons. Firstly as bitcoin is a digital form of currency/ cryptocurrencies. It can not be used if there is no electricity or internet, which will ultimately lead to its shut down. Secondly if governments of countries ban bitcoin then it will also lead to its shut down.

I would say new more technically advanced technology will take over the world one day (Etherium?). And bitcoin will lose value and die out naturally due to luck of public interest. Other than that it has no real enemies

It'll never be shut down on its own, but the value could go down to 0 if no one finds any value in it. Also as someone else mentioned, if the world lost power and the internet stopped forever, then it would be lost.

If you would ask this question few years ago, I could answer as yes but after this point nobody has power to shut it down. it's the inevitable reality at the moment and will be in the future.

is not never happened. There is always a risk of bitcoin collapse. However, the odds to happen are very small. So, we do not need to worry. The existence of bitcoin depends entirely on the market.

At the end of the day no one controls bitcoin and this is why so many countries like china and russia are afraid of the power that bitcoin can generate.

I am pretty sure about this. But let think wider, when electricity is shut down. Every aspect of this realm may be turn in disaster. In few country, there is so many Radioactive Nuclear Reactor that have coolling control system depents on electric. When electric is down, coolling system is disable. Huge Massive Explode begin to appear

I think science is becoming more and more advance with the passage of time therefore i think that there are very rare chances that electricity will down. even the backward countries are now producing electricity from solar energy, therefore i do not think that bitcoin will shutdown due to shutting down of electricity.

Bitcoin is directly depending on internet if there is internet in the world the bit coin will run otherwise the all the invested money in  crypto currency will wash out and it can be just digital numbers. But i do not think that it will ever happen because bitcoin is the need of the day. The governments can also shutdown bit coin and other crypto currencies through cyber management if it is called illegal. But all these factors which can shut down is not possible. Because the internet expert have already pases aways such banned in past.

It is just like if we say that if there is no raw material of paper then the paper currency can be shut down. Of course as there is no chance of material for paper making to vanish from the world there is also no chance of electricity and internet to vanish. The major source which can shut down bit is government which can easily control bit coin website through cyber technology to not open in the their country.

I would say it is literally impossible to fully shutdown bitcoin.
But if anyone want to shutdown bitcoin then he of she need to destroy the whole internet system first.
But it is not logical.
Otherwise bitcoin will exist in my opinion.

Hey :D
Everything is possible one way or the other in fact bitcoins can shut down ! But for that many countries have to be in agreement , sorry ALL , and its highly unlikely that if countries like Japan are willing to do this...
If its supposedly banned in some opther parts , it might well flourish in others.
There isn't any easy way out, countries have their veto power if they want to they will shut it down if they don't want to it will continue to flourish.
Right now many goverment have officially accepted bitcoins in their system thus governments are accepting bitcoins slowly!!!!! And you shouldn't think about the negative outcome.
Also you know there is another possibility, if the founder had some ulterior motives for example I have heard he is on an undercover mission to decrease the Value of dollar and maybe if he gets exposed then they may ban it because of illegality of this * But thats not true *
People can say what they want but in actual he brought a very nice change :D revolutionized d world!

Someone either has to completely obliterate the internet, meaning that everything is shut down aside from some very specific people having connections and completely prohibiting anyone from opening their own networks to the wider internet at large. This would mostly stop nodes and likely miners as well. But it would require a dramatic restructuring of the internet, and such an action would destabilize much of the world because they would suddenly cut people off from doing their own thing. Which is impossible.

Another thing they could do is go after literally any internet connection they see to the blockchain and execute people, but that's so fictitious it's not even funny.

It must happen which is a very serious event. Either this is a serious technical error in the system, and all bitcoins can either disappear or be stolen by a brilliant hacker. You can also consider the economic reason - the simultaneous prohibition of bitcoin by most of the major states of the world. Either the world will completely lose electricity and the Internet, but then nothing will happen to your bitcoins, since no one will have access to them, including you. But I do not consider these reasons real, these are only assumptions that are unlikely to ever happen.

Well its life, there's no permanent in this world our life will end of course the bitcoin too. Before it shutdown completely there's a sign that the bitcoin going to destroy or disappear completely if it continue to falling down it price.then the electricity too.bitcoin cannot access without electricity

I agree that there is nothing eternal in this world and absolutely everything has its beginning and end, but I think that bitcoin is at the beginning of its journey and its end is still far away, although the events are developing very rapidly.

Bitcoin at the very beginning of his career and is very vulnerable right now. Users who use bitcoin for speculative operations and not allowed to develop trade with bitcoins. Without this, bitcoin will never become a currency and as soon as the price of it will rise to a maximum and will decrease the volatility we risk being in a bubble.

As to what has happened in China there really is a large possibility that it can be shutdown or banned entirely in a place or country. Woth this in minf it is almost a neccessity that we be able to be ambassadors of bitcoin to the public and society.

Yes i think by the time like from 5years from now the whole world will recognize bitcoin,and surely its value will be at its pick at that time.
Though i must say may be bitcoin will shut down by a country but it cannot be shutdown by the whole world.The technology behind it very strong as per me.

There are lots of ways for the bitcoin to shutdown, all posted above are true. Aside from electricity and computers/devices the best way to shutdown bitcoin is the internet connection. If there is no internet then there is no way to trade it or use it. But still, bitcoin is alive and as of now I havent heard any one or groups that is planning to shut it down.

I don't really think that it would ever happen I think that they need to shutdown the internet first so the bitcoin would be totally be frozen,
But they could never do it.

The only way for the bitcoin to be shutdown is when there are no more electricity and no more internet connection.  Those are the things that would stop and completely shutdown bitcoin because those are the main ingredients  ;D for bitcoin to run.  And those things are also impossible to happen considering that government all over the world rely on electricity and internet connection.

i think the only possible reason for this scenario to happen is the lack of internet and electricity.
any human induced errors cant be that great to cease all transactions with bitcoin.
and this two factors is also not possible to happen in a worldwide level.
therefore it is safe to say that bitcoin cannot be shutdonw...
:D

In my opinion there would be three things that will make bitcoins to be completely shutdown. I think it would be electricity, gadget(regardless if it is a computer, cellphone,etc.), and internet. If one of this is not present  on the cycle bitcoins would inevitably meets its end so I think these three factors would be essential to each other.

Speachless, Lol. Are you serious,, shutdown ? its like computer ;D we never dont know what will happen in the future. im sureley bitcoin will still exist if bitcoin be shutdown.

No electricity, No internet connection. These two will completely shutdown bitcoin because there would really be no transactions would be made knowing that it would really need internet for bitcoin to be transacted and all other things that do rely on internet itself will surely collapse too even on traditional banking system this would really make things mess up for sure.I cant imagine a world without internet though. 8)

If some hacker could control half the hash power then deliberately sabotage its blockchain then yes, bitcoin would technically die. Another way is if the internet is ever shut down which is almost impossible to happen.

Yea and without electricity and internet u also don't have access to banks and all businesses will die not just BTC  ;D

I dont know much about how bitcoin systems work. I think bitcoin so far there is no problem with the network. so what maybe bitcoin can be shutdown. only the person who created it will be able to answer that question.

1 reason that makes bitcoin can shutdown is because internet of this world down, but i think it never happen in this world, because right now internet service provider has many backup if their internet down

If all the bitcoin relay nodes are shut down then the network will automatically shut down and no more new blocks will be mined thus no transaction will confirm and bitcoin will fall. But doing that is also not possible at all as it will be only possible in case of a coordinated crackdown and a few countries are there who are supporting bitcoins.

I thi k it will happen if Worldwide terrorisms or even wars uproar cause people will tend to think about survival than having money during that time, they will seek help and not bitcoin, they will find food and signature campaigns , electricity, @nd internet will probably shutdown of course that will deprived us for using and working for bitcoin.

i think you cant do everything, because in internet network or internet connection is the most important to access bitcoin forums. no internet connection, no projects, no thread, no posting, no everything if your bitcoin network be shutdown completely. if you want do your projects,you must connection your internet to bitcoin forum.

I think bitcoin will be laast forever why? Because lot of country use now as a currency and they make it legal to use. Some industry or marketplace use to buy some of their product.

Governments could definitely make our lives very very difficult, which would have a huge impact on the price of BTC. But fully shut it down? This is nearly impossible.

The absence of  electricity, internet, and bitcoin users. it can also be shutdown if it's declared as illegal in all country.

Without electricity and Internet nothing is possible at present. Each and every activity that human does will get connected to internet in one way or the other. So, these reality facts won't let the bitcoin get shut down.

Aside from having no electricity, no internet and all countries implementing a total ban on Bitcoin there could be another futuristic reasons that could possibly make Bitcoin disappear. Worldwide EMP attack, Asteriod impact and end of the world are worst than all of those listed above it could even end the human race. It might not happen today but could possibly be happening in the future but of course I am hoping that it won't come true. Bitcoin is unstoppable without those lists.

I will take another route from the other posters.  Besides shuting down the internet or Government regulation  Bitcoin could be destroyed from within by its on developers.  

In fact some would argue due to past hardfork Bitcoin no longer exists.  There is an upcoming hardfork in November called segwit2x that has a small chance of tearing the community apart.

To sum up my thoughts.  Internal conflict within Bitcoin poses the greatest threat of a shutdown.

I can not imagine if the bitcoin network is closed, try to think positively.

Not even the latter will completely kill it. It's easy to use for shady deals so criminals can always fall back on it. The absence of electricity and internet is really the only thing that can completely shut it down, but that will never happen.

In other words, bitcoins can not be killed by anyone because the electricity and the internet are not lost. Depending on whether there is a widespread war, money and bitcoins will no longer be profitable. Really bitcoins can no longer be prevented and it really happens that the world must be changing and with each passing moment there are new ones that will expose the future of people living in the future

I don’t think so. How can it be possible that something more valuable and profitable can be shutdown someday? It is beyond the sense. I think that the investors who have invested in bitcoin are not brainless. They have surely studied all the related aspects about bitcoin and then they have invested. Why one would invest in such a thing which may not survive in the future.

I have read an article about quantum computer . Lots of researchers are working on it and it just moving  steps closer to the reality . And if it comes to the reality it will destroy the whole crypto system we use, hence also destroy the bitcoin.

No. People have experimented with broadcasting transactions with ham radio, battery powered (no electricity)

You could even calculate hashes by hand, if need be (it might come to that with nuclear war, these maniacs who have power are insane)

You can goo to the newbie section and ask there, there are hundred of people who will answer you , from the thousands that know how bitcoin is working.
The coin is basically a bunch of code, everyone knows what and how it works, it's an open book.
There is no secret behind it that only it's creator knows. This isn't Lord of The Rings.


It is not going to destroy bitcoin.
A quantum computer will just have a shot at breaking the privkeys but there are two important things:
1) there is no real quantum computer available and building one capable of that might take a lot of time
2) quantum computers are not magical they too have their limitations so combined with point 1 , it is possible to build a quantum resistant algorithm. There are at least two experimental that have been discussed here, although they are in the same stage as the computers.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/qbitcoin-making-bitcoin-quantumcomputer-proof
Funny that the inventor also has a Japanese name, but at least we know who this guy is.
 

Yes there is a down fall for each and every thing. If we look at the currency market it is highly risky and fluctuated in a very short period of time for bitcoin it has very popular to us but we don’t know that for how long it will stable its popularity. Yes it is true that now it is at boom level and there are so many crypto currencies are introducing and we will see the future of that currenices.

One this will made this happen. No electricity. With this everything will go dark. No internet no bank transfers no tv no nothing everything is dark.
This is one of possible ways, other involves that in some crazy scenario all countries go bankrupt then maybe bitcoin would fall to or will go up so high that you could buy state for 1 bitcoin.

I think you are indicating towards the doom day. That will Of course happen which will destroy everything with it on that day but that is totally a different topic from this. When this entire universe will end then who cares about bitcoin?
The primary priority of humans is life if there will be no life the rest of the things will be meanless.

I think this topic is senseless, because if someone is earning from a site how can he asked a question like this? Does he fear of shutting down of bitcoin because of his investment or anything else ?

Nothing can stop bitcoin from prevailing all over the world and you will see that in the near future bitcoin will be the only usable digital currency in the world. There is nothing to worry about the shutting down of bitcoin.

Yes.Bitcoin is ever and never get shut down.It will possible only if the internet is no more from the world.I think now,world was not run without internet.Now even in a remote village the internet is in process.So it is not at all possible to make the Bitcoin as no more or Shut down.

The Bitcoin Network fully relies on the existence of the internet. Considering this fact, we can say that the only way to shutdown Bitcoin completely is by shutting down the internet itself. Another is electricity. No electricity, no Internet. So if you shutdown these two then you could probably shutdown the entire Bitcoin Network. Well that is if you can ::)

You have a wonderful question sir, for me Bitcoin will never get shutdown because it is apart of our society and gives the economy harmony to the people it gives them happiness contentment where they can find the true meaning of existence of themselves, trying to give everything just to help other people is a part of bitcoin nowadyas so it will never get shutdown.

it may be possible in the nearest future

That is a nice answer. I would also say if all governments do not get their taxes, because of cryptocurrencies, they would work together to stop bitcoin. Maybe they find a way to stop it, but it will be much expensive.

I do not know what this means. for now bitcoin will not shutdown completely because people have used it a lot and many have benefited from the bitcoin, although some countries forbid it but people will find another way for bitcoin business

In between the speculations bitcoin is surviving with great succession. From the beginning rivalries of bitcoin is trying to defeat it at any cost but they cannot do anything bad with bitcoin. Bitcoin is so much strong than the thinking of his enemies. Hopefully bitcoin will go ahead toward his destination with succession forever and nothing will shut down in future.

To be able to completely shut down the Bitcoin network all Bitcoin nodes should be destroyed which is those computers that runs bitcoin client software and has a blockchain on it. It's impossible to do that since Bitcoin nodes are spreading worldwide.as far as I know the bitcoin archive are in for conditioning,hard drive so no electricity, no internet not kill it. The government could regulate Bitcoin into oblivion if they really wanted to, the government has this sort of power to be able to kill Bitcoin off at any moment.

Definitely no.  I think bitcoin cannot be shutdown by anyone,  yes it can be banned but they cannot remove it.  We all know that the main access to earn bitcoin is by through internet connection. Without it we cannot earn any digital cryptocurrency so if they want shut down bitcoin they must go first the internet connection.

the sooner you start think positively the better for you. Bitcoin can be shutdown, this can only happen only when there is no more internet connection.

Bitcoin can also be shutdown if the demand on the market of bitcoin is gone. We can say that bitcoin can never be shutdown because it have a good market as of now and the demand is just keep on coming in bitcoin and i think that in the long run, we can still say that bitcoin is on a good health but after 100 years, bitcoin can be shutdown because of the loss of interest by the investor because of the being old in technology.

Exactly, bitcoin can never be shutdown unless it will be hacked and make the system to destroyed which can cause a totally shut down but as of this moment it's impossible to be happened. Bitcoin was designed to its highly secured system which can't easily to be hacked nor to destroy the system. As the bitcoin will works only via online system on the internet connection powered by the electricity it will never be shutdown at all.

I think bitcoin can not shut down because it's one of the most popular in the country..and bitcoin has the most sites here and it's the biggest company

If there is no electricity and internet connection we cennot use bitcoin and we cannot do bitcoin transaction but it cannot totally shut it down, maybe if the government has a restriction for using or totally ban the bitcoin in your country or maybe if somebody will hacked all the data and force it to shut down but  because of its secured system i think it wont happen.

Not at this time, because everyone pampers the pleasure of what they have get from bitcoin. It will shutdown unless no one will continue prosper in bitcoin. But at these time it keeps booming to the higest point evethough the price is flactuated. But many bitcoiner stood up and hold, waiting for the right time. So no exact reason yet, why it shutdown.

No! The value of bitcoin now is too low so many people will biy more if the bitcoin will go down so there is no reason and no one can kill bitcoin bitcoin is a technology that can change our econonomy so maybe it will continue to grow.

Several things can shutdown Bitcoin. First if everyone decide at the same time that they are no longer interested in Bitcoin. Second if all government agencies in every country block every Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and Blockchain related ip addresses from access. Third if electricity fails, fourth if there is no internet.

It will totally shutdown if adoptors will stop using it.Aside from losing internet connection and electricity bitcoiners play a very great role on bitcoin history where we truly believe on bitcoins potential to make our lives to be financially free.Bitcoin is worthless if we stop using it but most probably it will not happen because bitcoin nowadays were already popular eventhough it has been through the toughest times but positively it will recover soon and this will not easily shutdown.

I agree with you and I think it's very difficult to close down Bitcoin because of the thousand/millions of supporters it has globally. However, times are tough for Bitcoin and we should get ready for more turbulence ahead. At the end of this, I still believe that Bitcoin will come out stronger.

Times aren't tough for Bitcoin, stop taking mainstream media articles for face value. If you look at the long term picture, Bitcoin is doing better than ever before, but people don't see that due to how short term minded they are.

Bitcoin's market has always been turbulent, and again, if you look at the long term picture, the volatility we have gone through, and the fud we experienced, haven't had a single impact on Bitcoin's price.

Some times I'm seriously embarrassed by how stupid the general logic here is. We have been through all this so many times before, but people still fail to get the whole point of this market and everything tied to it.

Volatility is our daily life here, stop complaining about it ;D

If shutdown refers to ban then it wont. Bitcoin and crypto are all decentralized, unlike centralized technology that can be blocked. Good luck to you blocking peer to peer technology like blockchain has ;)

bitcoin is a strong cryptocurrency, the more people or investors who has the interest to buy bitcoin especially now that the market is in a red mark it will continue to be more stonger. The only thing that is possible to shut down bitcoin is when there's no electricity and internet connection. This two has the power to shut down bitcoin. But it's not going to happen because we people uses electricity and internet becuse it is part of our daily lives.

The only thing that come in my mind to shutdown bitcoin is only world war III, when massed country use nuclear bomb and chemical/biology weapon. Lost generator, lost electricity, lost money, only you and your skill to survive. Otherwise, government wouldn't be able to shutdown this things.

For me, there is an important point that chokes like a bursa or business, which can cost a little price but in the long run it is difficult or can not be closed. It's just liquidity that will be very painful. 8)

Bitcoin can be shutdown if and only if there is no electricity, internet, investors & miners. In today's setting, you can never shutdown bitcoin because it's all over the world. The bitcoin network is too big and there are too many users/miners that are working to improve it.

BTC can death
But Blockchain will change the worrld!  ;)

No one can ever shut down Bitcoin ever unless internet is existent in the world Bitcoin protocol runs

In my opinion, I don't think that government would ever be able to shutdown Bitcoin. But a worldwide stop of internet or electricity would definitely kill it.

Bitcoin atleast for a couple of years is here to stay. Adoption of bitcoin has just started, it still is the infancy stage, thn it will grow. So bitcoin is here to stay. But definately the boom period after a coyple of years might slow down

no one can shut bitcoin unless the internet is shut down, there is a truely need for bitcoin, but if the main countries like USA, Chian, Russia and so on begin to ban bitcoin, it will not spread over the world

Everything has an end. Shutting down of bitcoin is possible, bitcoin can be end or replace but i think and i guess the time doesnt come yet. Bitcoin now is really popular and its development. Bitcoin now is pursuing the highest path it can go but the end still come and come in no time.

i dont think bitcoin will be shutdown because it is already circulating all over the world and it is already legal to some big country. bitcoin already use as a payment in online shops and use a mode of payment in some establishment in some countries. bitcoin will be our future currency all over the world that why it exist in very very long time.

That can only happen when the whole world shuts down completely,which is not possible from my perspective. As far as the internet exist, bitcoin continues.

No, it is not possible. It may be tried to prohibit and the like, but while it causes interest and demand among people - this will not stop.

No it will not happen bitcoin can never be shutdown as long as their are everybody that patronize the important uses and functions of bitcoin in the digital world it would go for long period of time and always in success.

No bitcoin will never be shutdown because there are so many users that won't let that happened. There are so many users on the bitcoin that are so popular because they know that they can have an extra income even if they have a job. Others said that bitcoin can be shutdown but for me it will never happened.

No one knows if bitcoin could ever be shutdown in the future, for sure there is no one could tell us exact detail with bitcoin and even the price that's why some of us are failure with bitcoin but some others are lucky to, to gain profit with bitcoin. Shutting down bitcoin for sure most of us will take rally.  ;D LOL.

Yes possible if government can pinpoint every node running bitcoin network.  It will be very hard and as long as there is one fanatic that keeps on running node for bitcoin, it will never die.  One thing to make sure that bitcoin will die is to shutdown the internet and I believe that is not possible because everything in the world needs internet access for transaction.

I also agree with you, bitcoin will die if electricity and internet network around the world also die. besides that there is also another problem that is the state forbids bitcoin, but this way will not kill bitcoin, it will only affect the price of bitcoin to be down.
bitcoin is not that easy to die because if the electricity and internet network are dead then man will fix the problem quickly.

That is the hard part,a government cannot surpass his jurisdiction and get involved with other government across the globe,this is a decentralized platform and this is truly global and no one can shut down the network,i will just tell you this,have you heard about piracy,the government along with movie and music industry are spending billions of dollars to combat that and still they could not do that and you think that it is possible to shut down the bitcoin network if they want to.  :D

To shut down the bitcoin network completely you must shut down the entire web which is not possible because that would a total nightmare. Lots of multi-billion dollars businesses now are fully dependant on the web and without it, they would end up in total chaos. thus, they'll do anything possible to keep the web running for their own businesses to grow further.  

There is no such kind of thing which can stop bitcoin or can shut it down as there is no one who is having this kind of authority because of the decentralized nature of bitcoin. Bitcoin will remain there in this world and that no one can do anything like that which can result in anything unfavorable. Bitcoin is meant to change the lives of the people and that bitcoin will surely do in the future as well.

When the internet is out then that can shutdown bitcoin. But that will be very hard to do. Everybody is using the internet. Even the government is relying on internet. So if ever the internet goes down they will find a way to be connected. They get more problems without internet than stopping bitcoin.

this bitcoin network is designed as best as possible for investment system services. which will be done by all the people all over the world. that's why this bitcoin should not be shutdown. because this is very detrimental to countries that are conducting currency sales transactions.

Bitcoin can cease to exist if all computers in the world stop working!))) Bitcoin is the future, but I do not like that everything is moving behind bitcoin! I very much wait for serious competitors and the market will stabilize! crypt world is at the very beginning of its development, it will continue to develop and exist for a very long time!

It is very difficult to be turned off the bitcoin, in any case it could be turned off in some areas, if for example there is no electricity, or there is no internet. But in the whole world it is very difficult to happen.

How do you think it is going to shutdown,it is only when people like you and me stop investing and trading bitcoin,than it will be down

If I have to be honest I do not know if this can happen unless the Internet or electricity are stopped anywhere in the world.  ;D ;D

You are definitely right about that. The medium that is needed to access bitcoin is with the use of electricity and internet. But who knows as the world develops maybe perhaps there will be a way to shut the bitcoin down.

I think bitcoin will be shutdown because there are so many popular person or famous person that are involved here and I think they will not let anyone to destroy it or shutdown it. Even if there are so many professional hacker that wanted to destroy it there still a hacker that wanted to protect it.

BTC or any other cryptocurrency cannot be shutdown so easily, it's worth to note that with the millenial age
electricity is just one of the utility supply, by it's Government that cannot be put off or shutdown.

If the Electricity or Power Supply shutdown all over the world, then we will be in a dark ages.

Therefore BTC cannot be shutdown.

The straight answer should be a big NO. A government only can make rules for a single country, but can not stop it's using and supply. Due to its high demand, people will use it in dark web are somehow they want. People who invested Millions in BTC, they don't want to be destroyed this way. So, the government is powerless in this case.

the internet can be shutdown, but it requires most countries to agree on that, but it won't shut 100%

Decentralized network like block chain is nearly impossible to shut down. :D :D :D
Just because it is decentralized. No central authority, No central server , Bitcoin algorithm is running in thousands of computers.
If someone wants to shut it down, every computer must be shut down. Actually it is not possible.

But there is a small probability if one mining pool acquire more than 50% hash power.(Ghash got 51% of mining power recently. But they cut it down willingly)
If someone or a team has over 50% hash power  they can wage a denial-of-service attack against the entire Bitcoin network.  :-\
Read here - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/after-reaching-51-network-power-bitcoin-mining-pool-says-trust-us/

Block chain is safe and secure than any technology in the world.
Don't worry it will never be shut down..  :)

No, bitcoin can't ever be shut down because it lives on so many computers at once. Even if power was lost in the entire world, it would be back the moment the computers power back on.

Its maybe happened but literary the  popularity of this one is increasing. It's success a enchanting way that's very impressing to ours and the users. Used it very desperately to achieve their achievement, for this system staying for forever and to be honestly i hope so.

i dont think so... specially nowadays that internet is one of the most important thing or perhaps makes the world seem so small...

Not sure.
Its possible to do it without internet. You need to spread it on memory cards.
No electricity in times of cheap solarpanels? Unbelievable!

Bitcoin face a risk by shutdown self from unpopularity of all the bad news propaganda! If no one use it, the price will falling until end and the coin is dead. 

No one can ever shutdown the btc.No internet connection can shutdown also,hence there is a chance that btc will grow faster.Its hard to take bitcoins down.

I do not think this is possible because it is a decentralized currency.

I think that's very unlikely to happen. Unless there will be an interruption in the power grid all over the world or the internet will be shut down. As long as we are in the digital age bitcoin will keep on functioning and keep on growing.

To be able to finish Bitcoin you just need to remove internet and Bitcoin will no longer exist. But this will never happen because the internet is an important factor in sustaining this development. The promulgation of the ban limits Bitcoin's development without destroying it.

No we can not shut down bitcoin it can not shutdown for anything who wanted to destroy it it has a strong foundation and budget for everything

The blockchain is a living thing and it would take many years to bring the network down.

I don't think it's possible. Nobody can close bitcoin. If you want to kill bitcoin, you can only shut down the Internet, but I don't think that's possible. Now we can't live without the Internet. Even if all countries in the world ban bitcoin, it can still be traded on the Internet.

Yes, of course. The government may shut down Bitcoin’s presence (in the same country controlled by that government) so that it becomes “basically non-existent”. The government may simply say that the mining of the Bitcoin; and/or buying/selling of the Bitcoin for the national currency; or some other services; or even the promotion of the Bitcoin or products based upon it is illegal – and punishable by a fine and/or XY months or years in prison.

I can't think of anything to close bitcoin, which I don't think is possible. When all countries in the world ban bitcoin, bitcoin can still be traded on the Internet. Just as drugs are banned all over the world, people still buy and sell drugs.

I think  electricity and internet are logistics support that make it happen but some other factors like governments legal prohibition all over the world can also make it ineffective and useless. Anything becomes obsolete when it has no use.

I think not.
But it can be disappear because no more people using it anymore.
Since it decentralized and it's really free for anyone, i think no one can shut this down

Well it's simple no electricity no internet connection no cryptocurrency and the world will be silences.

I think in the distant future Bitcoin will disappear and replaced with more modern virtual currency and more gadgets. But it is a very distant future, maybe a few dozen years to come true because Bitcoin's value is still high and still receives a lot of attention from many investors.

Theoretically, it is possible, as long as the global power failure is enough, but this theory is very difficult to achieve, and it is almost impossible.

There is no back arrow or it will fall into chaos

Without that central location to shut down, any meaningful crackdown would have to be a global endeavor. Even if a country was to somehow prevent bitcoin transactions from taking place within their borders, a simple VPN or Proxy system would let users operate internationally with little issue. In my personal it is posible to shutdown bitcoin but its not that easy.

if internet in the world shutdown i think all of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will shutdown too, not only the bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, but all thing that connected with internet, like website and internet banking and all of thing the world that use internet as their main connection

Yeah, there is a possibility to shut down bitcoin but will takes a lot of time and will really require cooperation of all countries.

True. The internet is a central gateway to tap into the decentralized space. If that gateway is cut off, It'll be catastrophic. But that, however, isn't the purpose of bitcoin. Bitcoin main objective is to provide a decentralized infrastructure for peer to peer trustless payments. Soon we'll have a project which will focus on making a decentralized internet. One which won't be controlled or censored by ISPs (Internet service providers).

Why not banning internet node ?
South Korea can do that too. China has already done with Google stuff.

But as there are many out there who are supporting BTC ( luckly ) making their own machines as full nodes - the network can not be shut down - because they are still increasing.

And if you might have 50% +1 more power - IF YOU CAN REALLY HAVE ONE - they gonna find a solution for that and maybe switch or make a official statement with right blockchain where everyone should follow ( and not the corrupted one ).

So if you think to control the system, you'd better go and buy as many BTC as you find and just trash them - but you gonna have thousands of bilions to trash  ;D

   The surest way to kill BTC is to turn off electricity, of course I myself have bitcoin and earn it on trade. But if the entire planet to turn off the electricity, then the planet will be much cleaner and it's good.

Of course there is a way to shut down bitcoin, you would either have to shut down electricity in the entire world so people would no longer be able to power their devices in which they store bitcoins or you would have to shut down internet, meaning there would be no way to access the internet and get to their coins. Either these two things are done or bitcoin will always remain.

no I can't not believe it that bitcoin will shutdown this month.bitcoin goes through a dull narrow street which is scrared us.but a few days in bitcoin will regain its orginal position. so it is not worry of thinking.

No bitcoin will never to be shutdown don't worry tomorrow or the next day bitcoin will pump up and up just stay relax

If all the government would decide to ban (which is unlikely to happen) the use of the internet then it would die because we need the internet to access bitcoin. I think shutting down bitcoin would never happen because for the simple reason of a lot of people are benefiting from it.

if the bitcoin network collapse or internet in the  world down i think bitcoin can be shut down, and of course the holder of bitcoin will be panic and wait until the bitcoin up again, and of course if it happen again the price of bitcoin will goindg down and down again because the holder dont want to hold bitcoin again

Bitcoin cannot be shut down. There are only reasons why bitcoin will end if there is no internet connection which is impossible to happen, second there will be no investors that are willing to spend their money on bitcoin. And lastly if bitcoin will restrict by all the countries and governments inside our globe which is impossible to happen.

We can't deny the fact that everything has its own ending. Bitcoin can only be shutdown if it will be forced to do it. But I think it will never be stop because it is functioning and being used by many. The only way to shutdown bitcoin is stopping the process of internet since we all know that bitcoin is operating through it.

when the world has no power source and no internet network access, that's when bitcoin can not grow and die. on the contrary as long as there is electricity and internet, then as long as that bitcoin exists.

Exactly everything has some system but it is not good to be at the ending point because bitcoin has a lot of benefit and it will never end at all, money making with bitcoin is very easy so no need to stop it or shut it down, market if bitcoin is all about the investors so they are not going to shut down the bitcoin as currency and as saving, benefits of bitcoin is day by day increasing which is making bitcoin more stronger gradually so hopefully bitcoin will never get shutdown in my country.

I personally thunk that bitcoin cannot be shutdown, there's almost a negligible chance of bitcoin reaching its lowest value but it wouldn't ever shutdown because there are still many new investors, and many big shot companies that are thinking of using bitcoin as their payment for many negotiations that occur in their company. So my answer is that the value may decrease to its lowest but it will not disappear in the future.

A total shutdown or close of Bitcoin network seems quite not practicable. Bitcoin has come far that it has created a revolutionized and decentralized payment method where transactions are run under secured, fast, and smooth platform. Its uniqueness surpasses the old traditional payment systems. Bitcoin has come to stay as it attracts more people each day to its patronage. Perhaps, it will end when the last man dies.

If we turn our desire and make it against bitcoin. All the government of the world turn their eyes against bitcoin. Every business in the world banned bitcoin. Every people do not wants bitcoin. Every os of bitcoin system will be erase. Then possible the total shutdown will come.

 ;D so The "IF" happens as hardly as people hark blockchain.

BTC is loved almost because of its secure. So if it was hacked, maybe it will be shut down.

What do you mean shutting down?
Banning of bitcoin in all places?
Or no electricity world wide?
Well only internet connection can stopped the operation of btc.
But of banning of btc is very hard to do.
Because like you or we .. As long as there are people who uses of it.. Bitcoin still exist.

no bitcoin well be spread in the world bitcoin will never erase in the name of crypto bitcoin is the biggening bitcoin will bigget but never shoutdown.

Bitcoin is not that easy to stop, now ordinary people who have earned a little money and who have subscribers in social networks of 100,000 are manipulating the crypto currency, these people are dropping the rate where they want

as long internet and electricity still alive,no one can shutdown bitcoin.
and as long as people still believe in it,bitcoin circulation will kepp exist.

Definitely I agree with you.  It can only be shutdown if we will go back in the old days that there is no internet, no computers and no network.  In that way, cannot  transact money online and we can't get online job that pays bitcoin. And also it is true that if all government can ban bitcoin and they will no longer accept it.

But that reasons is very impossible. We are in a high technology generation. Internet connection is a kind of need to us. We want easy things to do. So it is really impossible to shutdown bitcoin.

The bitcoin never been shutdown. Until the electricity or technology will never end, bitcoin cannot end too. And it will be our current money in the future. I wish.
It is impossible to shutdown. Bitcoin now is well known.

Reflecting well, as well as many web pages are invisible and only accessible in the deep web, governments could obscure, by mutual agreement, all web pages that treat cryptocurrencies and thus block the whole system. What do you think?

To take the bitcoin network down might be a lot of work. They can remove access to it rather than shutting the whole network down. It would take a lot to take down this kind of network. They can also make laws that btc would be considered banned and illegal and that would lessem the users and eventually kil btc.

There is no reason why will bitcoin will permanently shutdown, I think there are some possible factors that can shutdown permanently the bitcoin such as if the Internet will be gone, because Internet is one of the tool that usually use for us to have an access to bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.

yes bitcoin will end but not now maybe in the near future. Bitcoin has its faith. To those who invested in bitcoin in bitcoin before probably has earned a lot of profit today. Yet bitcoin will come to.an end wether we like it or not because many will come to.invest and bitcoin price will go high. The market price would be expensive and we will be only loss in our investment. Some investors may profir but probably most of the profit will goes to the transaction fee in converting coins to fiat money. Relatively those transaction fee is so high. I guess it was 5% of the total value of btc or fiat money will be the transaction fee.

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To me I don't think so. Bitcoin is the mother of all the crypto currency present. It's also the only crypto currency which is very old one. It made many invertors profitable due to it's value ups and downs. If bitcoin wanted to be shut down then it already would had been shut down.
So, I think it's just , Bitcoin is going through a bad moment that's all.

Bitcoin can be shutdown. Yes it can be because bitcoin is an online job from the internet. So if internet will be shutdown then might bitcoin too because the source for us to work with bitcoin is an internet connection. Thats why we must need to take good care of everything for this to be safe in our hands.

 well its a possibility that BTC can be shut down but only by individual countries not all at a go, its however very unlikely as BTC has attracted a variety of use that its just too important to shut down just like that

I don't think so... i think bitcoin will always be there even if in case it will surpass by another coin, it will still be existing. Because it has made a remarkable market already when the value shoot up to very high now even if it decrease it will soon be recover.

In my opinion, today that cannt happen, but maybe in future.

It's impossibe that bitcoin will be killed,and it's impossible that internet will be shoutdown because almost all business rely on the internet,our government do not allow this to happen becausevour economy will also suffer without internet.

It is like so that bitcoin is the digital currency and its growth and it popularity is all about investors and all about the trust that people have for bitcoin, today it is new age where everything is getting about digital system so we are going to see a new system which is going to survive for long time. Bitcoin shut down is not possible because it is getting famous and some countries are trying to approach bitcoin as the legal currency for their country which is giving bitcoin a lot of space in the whole world.

If it is possible to be shut down, then the platform will not have been  here up to this time,this is due to it decentralized nature of the platform that is why it is impossible to being it down.

Possible only if the internet was shutdown globally no other way to shutdown the bitcoin.The regulations and restrictions from the governments have no effects on using the bitcoin but people need to know these to avoid unnecessary panic.

This is not possible, bitcoin value still highest in all coins that's why it will not shutdown

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I don't think so because it is a blockchain based currency. Tomorrows world will lead blockchain. now people are so busy and not enough time to bear hard cash in everywhere. So BTC is the alternative in there where people will do all payments from same desk. So how it can be vanish??

Yes, you have a point, no electricity, no access of internet, no interenet you cant work/use bitcoin which may shutdown bitcoin. But thats not gonna happen, Electricity is always on around the world, It uses and important for all, and even for BPO campanies or other bussiness firms which uses internet. It may kill those companies as well if there is  no electricity, which is not allowed to be happen for it is for the economy. And  same for the bitcoin as well.

I can't imagine What I do when bitcoin ever be shut down When It shout down then Think about it.

Its very unlikely that BTC will ever be shut, as it has gained a wide market coverage and usability, most people are already using it.  if it were to be shut down there will be a big uproar from its millions of users,  i dont think it will ever happen

I think when bitcoin is shutdown, I imagine that I can't help my parents anymore for their daily needs, I can't help my fees in my studies and I will be drop in school if I don't have a money to pay my school fees, but I believe that it will never be happen that bitcoin will shut.

Yes, nothing lasts forever but it will remain for a long period of time, it can be shutdown until the time comes that there are no more internet connections and electricity.

To shut down the bitcoin network completely you must shut down the entire web which is not possible because that would a total nightmare. Lots of multi-billion dollars businesses now are fully dependant on the web and without it, they would end up in total chaos.

remove internet technology worldwide, eat bitcoin network will die forever. no internet then no bitcoin. digital currency will not be able to move

As long as people get money from taking care of it it can't be over.
Think about a baby in the familly. Bitcoin has no father or mother but was adopted by thousands of people whao takes advantages of it just because they give him food and home.

But one day will come, another baby will come and get the parent's attention. This day, when there will be no food and no home, Bitcoin will be over.

In my perception about this topic, I think bitcoin will totally shut down If no one could ever invest in it and all whales of bitcoin will dump their bitcoin funds. But to think back of this, it is impossible to happen because there are many things that bitcoin have done good for us. And we all know that all crypto currencies are just depend of bitcoin.

Why do you want that Bitcoin will be shutdown? First thing, Bitcoin is created for the people to have financial freedom and investment privacy and for us to gain profit as it is decentralized. Second thing, Bitcoin cannot be shutdown completely until there is one person like me transacting in Bitcoin.

It depends on the scenario if we are talking full world wide apoplectic situation then I think we would have bigger problems other than bitcoin and crypto currency.
The beauty of bitcoins block chain is that it isn't owned or controlled by a single entity it would be hard for someone to take it over.

Only if all of the users decide to stop using bitcoin but for sure this is never gonna happen

No I think its not possible till there is huge investor in crypto market. There are also many miners. Yes if they stop investing bitcoin will die.

To stop the bitcoin network, you need to stop investing and using crypto currency

No i am not agree because bitcoin is made from people and I think it's possible to stop  bitcoin and for me I don't like bitcoin is shot down because many people change life because of bitcoin and I know many people don't like bitcoin shutdown,..

These are from technical/logical point of view. However what's most important here is I don't really think that Governments don't really want to kill it. The CEO of VISA said crypto is run by dirty politicians and I do believe that too! They wants to make money out of this game. And at least for this reason this Monkey Business kind of economy is not going to get shut anytime soon IMHO.

The lack of Internet and electricity around the world can "freeze" the network of bitcoins

bitcoin relies on electricity and most importantly internet connection. If by any chance internet connection has been shutdown, definitely all cryptocurrency transactons will stop. We can only use bitcoin and other cryptocurrency transactions with the help of the internet and without it no transactions will be made.

Based on what you've said, Bitcoin would still continue its thing. You only cut down the supply and demand factor but that doesn't enough. Bitcoin is a digital currency by means internet is its home, in which it could still support itself. Since we are also now in a technological advances Bitcoin is now part of the economic contributor for some countries (might still be low but noticeable).

I guess bitcoin can never be shutdown. I admit that my first impression with bitcoin is that this will not last for long time and will be shut down in just couple of years. But look now where is bitcoin, it is on the top of among of the crypto currency. Also almost all the grown business industries were associated with bitcoin or using bitcoin now. That is now strong bitcoin in this day, strong enough that no one can ever shut down this. Surely if someone is planning to shut down this they will never win because much more people will protect the bitcoin because they don’t want to lose bitcoin and their source of income.

It is very easy. Turn off the internet, everything will die. If that is not enough then turn off the electricity and it will cause a bigger trouble and Bitcoin might finally die with it. If that is not enough again for people to stop using Bitcoin then a ban on all gadgets and technological instruments such as laptops and personal computers could be added, and everything will definitely be gone. Apart from all these, Bitcoin will continue to exist and people will always be supporting it.

It takes a strong will from the government to shut down the bitcoin system. Somehow even if the government would likely to shutdown bitcoin system in their respect area yet people who are already establishing the bitcoin investment may still invest without their permission. I guess stopping individual to invest in bitcoin is impossible since they are already use to it and some of them are already addicted in bitcoin investment just like gambling. In my opinion bitcoin is just like gambling that you should take the risk on it but somehow bitcoin makes it difference from gambling because bitcoin has greater chance that will composed of i guess more or less 85% of chance to profit in bitcoin investment. So most of the time if you invest in bitcoin you will always get profit.

It would take a lot of manpower and horsepower alike to shutdown bitcoins. Bitcoins move and be sent to other wallets thru the blockchain. The blockchain is an online ledger that's updated regularly by a lot of computers. This means you have to hack into millions of computers to do so.

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Definitely, and if i may add END OF THE WORLD?. (Smiling) bringing bitcoin to a total shutdown is like waiting for the ocean to dry, possible but it'll take time and it'll happen in differrent places first, different scenarios and different reasons.

BTC is a huge book that exists on the Internet!

To close the BTC needs to close the block chain so BTC user's network, this seems very difficult to achieve!

BTC will only die because of the Internet shutdown.

Stop bitcoin is impossible, it can not be controlled by one or a group of people. One can only beat the bitcoin, those who have a large percentage of all bitcoins, but then all the crypto-currencies will collapse, and with them the world economy as well. There will be a disaster.

It might be possible.

I think some danger to bitcoin is the jurisdiction of some countries, this more affects distibution than technical problems

Well, no electricity, and no internet connection would kill BTC for sure! You wouldn't be able to make any transactions without these.
Other issue can be all the countries in the world ban BTC, but this will not restrict it's circulation, as no internet connection do!

There is no way to shut down bitcoin unless you plan on shutting down the internet, it is something that will remain for a long time, all you as an investor needs to worry about is securing your coins.

I think not! The price is a very important thing in the bitcoin future! If the price goes down the mining price then is a problem!

I  hope this will not be happen because there are so many people  that will lose their source of income especially for me that has no job at all and only depending in signature or bounty campaigns.

Yes I agree with you. There are a lots of supporter of bitcoin so it is impossible to be shutdown. I think theres no reason to shutdown bitcoin. Even though it has a low value now adays but it is not an excuse to shutdown it because users believe that it will high.

Exactly sir. It's just a matter of fact that btc won't function without electricity and internet. I do believe it won't die just because of the bad articles regarding scam and stuff but the lose of internet and electricity will.

You got a point sir. Bitcoin comes with bouth electricity and internet it will not work or no other transactions will become successful without those two. Bitcoin will always exist due to it's proven profitable business, it will never die.

Electricity or the internet will never be extinct because now everything is modern and when both are lost then all sectors will certainly tergangu because both of these things is the most important also in the economic sector

No, no, no way for that mate. I am one of the many that will disagree if Bitcoin will be shutted. Shutting one of the most sucessful investing and profiting fast at the same time. On my opinion it will never ever be shutted. NEVER.

nah nobody could kill bitcoin because its decentralized need to kill all computers which mining bitcoin also to stop this system.

Bitcoin network could be shutdown completely when there's no more internet connection, because without internet connection we cannot make transactions with bitcoin. Bitcoin could also shutdown if everyone will stop using bitcoin.

I don't believe bitcoin will shutdown, as long as there is an investors and users that continue to use bitcoin, it will also continue to grow and never gonna stop.

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I think it's pretty impossible. Bitcoin is a Decentralised currency and no one is controlling it, so possibly bitcoin will never shut down. But one possibility is that bitcoin will no longer be in existence if the internet is stopped, which I think is impossible. Blockchain is the future technology and bitcoin is it's king, so believe in the technology, u ll not regret.

To completely close the bitcoin, all countries forbid the circulation of bitcoins, disconnect the internet network. Everyone is no longer interested in using it. But this might all happen but it is very unlikely to happen.

If there is no electricity and internet connection we cennot use bitcoin and we cannot do bitcoin transaction but it cannot totally shut it down, maybe if the government has a restriction for using or totally ban the bitcoin in your country or maybe if somebody will hacked all the data and force it to shut down but  because of its secured system i think it wont happen.

Anything and everything is possible especially in the unpredictable cryptocurrency . On Normal circumstances BTC can not be shut down because its not subject to anyone's or institutional control, making it free. But again when and if the governments decide against it and ban its operation world wide then BTC will cease to operate hence fade off

of course not, the bitcoin moves and drives from the enthusiast and from minining that is available at various points that makes the bitcoin biting never stops, that's the bitcoin advantage that can not be controlled anyone can never even die.

What can shut down bitcoin, completely is, power outages and no internet access, because bitcoin just works with electricity and internet, as long as there is internet access and electricity, bitcoin will not end.

I believe it's entirely unimaginable. Bitcoin is a Decentralized cash and nobody is controlling it, so potentially bitcoin will never close down. In any case, one probability is that bitcoin will never again be in presence if the web is ceased, which I believe is outlandish. Blockchain is the future innovation and bitcoin is it's best, so have confidence in the innovation, u ll not lament.

For now I don't see it being probably shutdown for whatever reason. For as long as bitcoin did not violate any legal issues within a country it will never be banned or stopped. Also note that other nations are now trying to accept bitcoins so the possibility of getting banned or stopped is no more than just any FUD. This ideas should not be given more weight.

Bitcoin will be shutdown, or we do not have to scrub them. Because the Creator says everything will be destroyed. Plan on how to improve it. Because if we can improve or strengthen the blockchain technology then we will have major changes. Because many people using blockchain technology are millionaires.  So, we have to work hard to keep our technology in line with patience. But the progress of Bitcoin shows that it will not be shutdown in the near future.

No it cant be shut down for whatever reason there is. First of all because it has no illegal issues and Bitcoin is not violating laws under any circumstances. Some country may banned it but it cant be shutdown literally.

Well, no electricity, and no internet connection would kill BTC for sure! You wouldn't be able to make any transactions without these.
Other issue can be all the countries in the world ban BTC, but this will not restrict it's circulation, as no internet connection do!
therefore, no need to think of such a shut down. It's time for us to think about the further development, because its clear that the blockchain technology is gonna make a big change in all sectors when implemented. As a beginning, at present there are several firms that have started to use the blockchain technology.

Probably an immensely powerful computer virus that's able to hack any computer participating in the blockchain which is probably more than a million and counting. Bitcoins essentially needs the blockchain to survive so without the blockchain, bitcoins might quite possibly be shutdown.

The main thing in bitcoin is the internet and electricity network, because without it we can not make transactions or anything else. The average person has also realized if a time of this world without internet or electricity in a moment bitcoin will be dead or shut down. But hopefully we can find options and other solutions so that bitcoin still no matter what condition.

Restricting Internet access for every person 8n the world would be disastrous these days. A lot of services and data needs Internet access in order to be used. Online banking also works thanks to the Internet. There are not enough physical places when you can make a bank transfer. It would cause a lot of fuss and panic among banks clients. I would still choose Bitcoin though.

Anyway, I don't think that will happen until the internet connection will disappear or will not be used again. I'm sure in the future the people will actually be closer to the internet connection for the various things/activities, the development of the era., of course, will lead to the more sophistication. Bitcoin having a high chance of having a long life.

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Well bitcoin can never be shutdown..its not a computer nor a device that need to shutdown. Bitcoin has a worth sometimes we feel a little bit low price and sometimes it really comes up to the moon.. if the question is bicoin can possible be reach the lowest price convert to USD, my answer would be possible but not to the point we all suffer for the lost and thats i really never want to happen because im also the one person who could suffer if that happen.

I've already seen this post so many times, why keep asking that question, its not true bitcoin will never be shutdown because bitcoin is so popular, in terms of community bitcoin has a strong community and many people trust and invested it. So it will never be shutdown.

Personally I think it it possible for a total shutdown of Bitcoin but it will need so much power and it will take a lot of time and effort from the governments to do so. I think it is possible but very unlikely to happen as of the moment. Bitcoin has helped and is still helping a lot of people have a step closer to their financial freedom so I believe it it not going to happen anytime soon.

Never. Bitcoin will never be shutdown because it is knowned worldwide. Not only that, bitcoin rises or expands too fast. Spreading immensely and not one will and can't stop it. This is just the beginning of bitcoin and it will go too far and rise to the top.

I think that very bad news can arrange a panic sale and the price can drop significantly. However, in the future of the strong technology, the coin will remain alive

This is not possible unless you shutdown the internet which is impossible at current time. I think this is the beauty of bitcoins that  even governments are helpless against it.

maybe if  in this world will become no electricity and no internet , of course no bitcoin or blockchain anymore as the transaction is being done through internet. thats the only reason  I think it will completely shutdown the blockchain world.

bitcoin is a new technology in the world of crypto and financial so this penemuan should be developed better not stopped because good technology should be developed.

Nah i think impossible bitcoin cant be shutdown except no one buys bitcoin , no internet connection , every countries in this world banned bitcoin. Its so hard to shut down bitcoin nowadays people more likely to invest their money on virtual money. I think in the future people will use virtual money on transcaction.

As it was already mentioned, we would have to happen to be in the world without the electricity. But what is the probability of this happening? Very close to zero. But still the most probably thing which would prevent Bitcoin from existing.

I think bitcoin can never be shutdown because it is now slowly become the part of our daily life. Many people today trust bitcoin as their daily source of an amazing income i think bitcoin will become more profitable in the near future and I think it would really become the number one source of an extra income.

Bitcoin can be shutdown in the absence of electricity or of internet connection because bitcoin is powered by those. Bitcoin has grown already after a number of years, we must try to do something to improve it and not to abort it.

Some countries tried banning bitcoins but its citizens are still investing with one or another. Thus, it is impossible to shut it down completely.

for other reason like the secuirty and the other things i think it can shutdown, as we can know that bitcoin is the one of most popular currency in the world but it can shutdown if the bad people use bitcoin to do something bad in the world, like terror about a country and etc

I don't think that's the main reason because we can substitute solar energy to run our desktop and internet. I think if all country would agree to ban bitcoin or no one would like to buy bitcoin.

maybe that could be hapepen when we experience lacks or lost of electricity or the internet because bitcoin is powered by those. but instead of thinking on how to shutdown the bitcoin, why do not we think about how it will work better.

I don't think bitcoin no one can shut down bitcoin. Even if many bad people use it, it doesn't matter. No country has authority to shut bitcoin down. Country can only restrict or forbid their society to access bitcoin. And I'm sure not all country will do that cause the potential of bitcoin is too much that anyone never expected.

Bitcoin will not be shutdown surely because many people are aiming For this to join, and if no electricity no internet, bitcoin are still alive.

Well, bitcoin will be shutdown if there are no more investors on it and if internet and electricity is gone bitcoin will sure be shutdown because it is a digital coin.

A complete ban on this currency and the introduction of criminal liability for use! And find a way to regulate this market!

There are some people speculating that a government shutdown could end up reducing faith in the USD and therefore result in BTC increasing in value.Personally I think there's no correlation and regardless of what happens with the government,BTC will do what BTC does,
independently.I honestly can't say.Government workers could go on furlough.Meaning suspended.Could cause a myriad of issued last time this haired was october 2013 iirc,but it only lasted a couple weeks so nothing too serious happened

You do not have to think about the negative. It is time for us to think about further developments, because it is clear that blockchain technology will make major changes in all sectors when implemented. For starters, there are currently some companies that have started using blockchain technology. If you intend to shut down your own Network, I think yes. That is the best way anyone who dislikes Bitcoin can stayoff without hurting the common Bitcoin Network.

Kill the power source. That's it. But it is quite impossible to man a global loss of electricity. Next best thing to keep bitcoins gone is by killing the blockchain. Without the blockchain, there will be no bitcoins and cryptocurrency. But it is impossible to kill the blockchain because it links all the computers around the world.

I think this aint going to happen . Just the fact that no one controls bitcoin . There might be some times that bitcoin price was manipulated but it doesnt mean that its going to be lost. When there is demand, there is an instance that the future is bitcoin or cryptocurrency . Since other countries already started to regulate bitcoin , it will be more well-known and lots of people will be going to use it .

You must end your mining process to completely shut down the bitcoin web.The state will have to take a joint decision to end the mining.I do not think it would be possible for all countries to make joint decisions.

Never ever happens that predictions. No one can shutdown a bitcoin, because its decentralize you can delete some of files. But they have a lot of copies in the different software. So bitcoin never shutdown or to be hacked.

Shutdown?? like seriously?? Yes its possible if sources on which it runs completely shuts down.... and you know that its not possible... I mean this can be done by the government to their people for some time not permanently just to shut down the Bitcoin....so be happy and keep investing...

sure, if fud spread worldwide , eth will be on top,
cause btc high fees transaction , slow speed

I think bitcoin will be shutdown if we don't have internet connection or lost electricity because this is the needs in working here and you can't access and work without it. In fact no one can ever do this even if the government will try to destroy it because of too many people who invest for it and i believe it will last longer.

In my own opinion, bitcoin can be shutdown when there is global shut down of internet connection. Of course if you don't have internet connection you can't post in signature and bounty campaigns. Another is when the government ban bitcoin it will shutdown in that country. But we all hope that bitcoin will never be shutdown.

I believe it's entirely unimaginable. Bitcoin is a Decentralized cash and nobody is controlling it, so potentially bitcoin will never close down. In any case, one probability is that bitcoin will never again be in presence if the web is ceased, which I believe is outlandish. Blockchain is the future innovation and bitcoin is it's best, so have confidence in the innovation, u ll not lament.

The only thing that can make bitcoin shutdown is when bitcoin loses confidence, no longer bitcoin adoption, and at that time bitcoin will shutdown. For now bitcoin is becoming the most popular coin and as a prime choice for investment and I do not think bitcoin is shutdown.

Trying to shutdown bitcoin is like trying to shutdown the internet It's not possible.

Nowadays it is all-electric time, almost all the equipment uses electricity. That way because of electricity and technology the more sophisticated, I think Bitcoin can be shutdown. With the existence of electricity and technology, nothing is impossible.

Yes, nothing lasts forever but it will remain for a long period of time, it can be shutdown until the time comes that there are no more internet connections and electricity.

At a long distance bitcoin will not disappear anywhere. Rather, it will turn into a kind of measure of the value of all cryptology as a whole, "digital gold". Bitcoin will be the yardstick of any cost of cryptology, it will be used for savings and for recounting goods and services, a kind of anchor, to which all kryptoclans will be strung. Acting as a kind of bulldozer, expanding the platform for new technologies, bitcoin will long be the leader of cryptology...

It's simple my friend that if you have not an internet connection and this is the big reason that the bitcoin will be shutdown because it's online system.

Bitcoin will shut down when we lost Internet. Since it's a Digital Currency, it needs the Internet to work.and without that, Bitcoin will definitely be gone forever. and maybe there's more reason aside from this on. just like Banning the Bitcoin all over the World.

I think bitcoin may be turned off when mining is out of the way for miners bitcoin and network conditions of bitcoin are not connected for a few seconds it is certain bitcoin will start to stop and there will be a terrible price shock which is likely to make the price collapse.

Very well said. I agree with you ! Bitcoin will surely be completely shutdown if that will happen. We all know that internet is one of the ways on how to access the bitcoin and if there was no gadgets and electricity, internet is also unaccessible. Bitcoin will completely vanish if governments of each country ban it as what stated above. I also want to add, if no one will support it bitcoin will definitely die.

Since bitcoin is P2P, let's say most of bitcoin's network/ users are in a single country, and this country decided not to support it, it would probably be shut down.

No money exchanging stores would accept bitcoin because central banks wouldn't back them up and no business stores would accept it as well.

No, because there are many users and investor who uses it to do some campaign. Bitcoin will have a better system in the near future.

I don't see the possibility of bitcoin shutting down unless if there is no internet connection and electricity which is not possible but i just pray that bitcoin never shuts down

How will bitcoin shut down if there isn't even anyone that has full control over it? Bitcoin is a decentralized bitcoin currency. It's time for us to think about the further development, because its clear that the blockchain technology is gonna make a big change in all sectors when implemented. No need to think of such a shut down, as far as I know the bitcoin archive are in for conditioning.

I think bitcoin network could have been turned off when the internet is gone, because I think the bitcoin network movement depends only on the condition of the internet or not, but if it is deliberately turned off it seems unlikely that the bitcoin miner makes so much bitcoin network will never die.

Unless every single government in the world bans bitcoin and makes it illegal I don't think Bitcoin could be shutdown and all the governments banning bitcoin isn't going to happen as at least some countries are going to be in favor of crypto currencies and they would be enough for Bitcoin to survive in this world.

Its clear bitcoin depend on us, Its users who just love it. Only thing can take bitcoins down which is stop using it. If every people stop using it like stop buying and selling its start decreasing and at the end its shutdown forever.

Bitcoib couldn't possibly be illegalized in every country. That would mark a global chaos among the common men and tge government. Moreover, I don't think bitcoin would ever be shut down. This might take something as completely shutting down the use if internet to benable to whittle down bitcoin's prowess. So if you're planning to do something dodgy I advise you stop fron here.

this might happen if people even the whole world do not use bitcoin anymore. But for now impossible bitcoin can be shutdown. Because there are still many people who want it.

if the internet access network is gone from the face of this earth may be new bitcoin lost but I think bitcoin forward growing with the development of technology and development era

aside from internet there is no other may reason can be bitcoin may ever have to shutdown for therefore bitcoin will lead specially when the times of it got may become more so good and people accept it more.

Sooner or later bitcoin will be removed from the first positions, but it will remain as the first currency had changed the world. And new technologies are already being implemented and this can not be stopped

It is very difficult to shutdown bitcoin. Yes, if there is no electricity and internet connection, bitcoin will stop functioning and eventually it will die. Another scenario is if all the government bans it, then it will have adverse affect on its life.

There are lots of thing can be says about thing. Of course, Bitcoin is a human invention, to serve the human need, if at any point a general consensus can be arranged and its decided we don't need this invention, or that we humans deem it unfit to serve as legal tender, it will loose value so quick that it would be like it is shutdown even before the main shutdown. lets see what happen

You would essentially need to shut down internet to shutdown bitcoin. while bitcoin is one of the most resilient pieces of software around, it requires the availability of the internet in order to operate.

I think that it is almost impossible. I suppose that BTC will exist while criptocurrency will be used. Due to recent criptocurrency growth and development BTC has good chance to survive :)

What can Bitcoin ever be shutdown? This may well be an electromagnetic cataclysm of a global scale, completely blocking electricity. And if seriously, it does not occur that it can be. Blokchain it's a hydra ;)

Is not that easy for bitcoin to shutdown, I believe as far as internet can still be accessible bitcoin remain.

Bitcoin can be shut down, it will go down together of all cryptocurrency.
SHutdown the electricity and the internet all over the world, and you will wake up without bitcoin.
that is the only way that you and others can kill BTC.

Can the government shut down the Internet. NO so I highly doubt the government can stop bitcoin. The government can not stop the dark net. Why would anyone think the government can stop bitcoin. As long as the internet is working Bitcoin BTC  will be around

Bitcoin is the mother of all the crypto currency present. It's also the only crypto currency which is very old one. It made many invertors profitable due to it's value ups and downs. If bitcoin wanted to be shut down then it already would had been shut down.

I dont' think it can be shut down but if there were ever a time that someone had a 51% stake through multiple miners then that could cause a massive problem.

if We think out of the box not by just declaring the government itself was the suspect and electricity would put an end to this crypto. how about something fanatic and fiction almost tantalizing to achieve but yet possible, like disaster, calamity, etc. somewhere scenario that will totally END btc could it be the potential of fastest growing community who support alt or something more. Be with me as we tackle this topic.

It is very difficult to shutdown bitcoin. Yes, if there is no electricity and internet connection, bitcoin will stop functioning and eventually it will die. Another scenario is if all the government bans it, then it will have adverse affect on its life.

Bitcoin has many mission here on earth, which have not be completed, and come to think of Shutdown, the possiblity is still far and everything that has beginning, most surly has an end, for bitcoin still have 100 years or more to stay and the platform can not disappoint the investors, the right time is now, it has great a job opportunities.

Bitcoin has come to stay because in most countries now it is used for daily transactions amongst others. Its fanbase and acceptability keeps increasing by the day. You cannot detach humans from any venture that brings returns and that is the bird's eye-view of bitcoin, so shutting down bitcoin is an utmost impossibility.

I don't know, does it have a shutdown button?

the overall shutting down tha internet? Or total loose of interest and investmant on people side. Apocalypsis, lol. Something that I doubt will take place,

It will take a lot of manpower and horsepower to turn off bitcoin. Bitcoin moves and is sent to another wallet through blockchain. Blockchain is an online ledger that is updated regularly by multiple computers. This means you have to hack millions of computers to do it.

Actually base on the history , there is a moment that Bitcoin was shut down by the bankers who say shit about Bitcoin like Jamie Dimon.
But after that effects, Bitcoin still continue to survive and become more and more better day by day even there are some drops cause of the hjack and speculations of some sharks and whales.

Maybe during an apocalypse. Without electricity and internet.

So chances of Bitcoin being ever shutdown are almost zero in the near future.

I hope to be able to completely shut down the Bitcoin network all Bitcoin nodes should be destroyed which is those computers that runs bitcoin client software and has a blockchain on it. as far as I know the bitcoin archive are in for conditioning,hard drive so no electricity, no internet not kill it.

Definitely yes. We cannot stop it if government take action on it. Eventhough bitcoin is recognized world wide it cannot be fully recognize by our government due to many reason.

Probably either some technological, global, fatal errors, or a complete ban from the government.

If the government of each country to ban bitcoin, it will definitely come to an end. It's a dubious scenario, but there's so much absurdity in the world, I'm not surprised.

Bitcoin is on the world stage for quite a short time and something can really happen to it, because it is too young. But I hope all of our worst fears are just guesses and assumptions.

I am sure that the bitcoin is able to overcome all the obstacles and inconveniences that are trying to create for it. This is a developing currency supported by first-class experts, which is why I am sure that the end of bitcoin does not threaten.

i really can't say but even if it is possible, it wont be easy. means the world has to come together and shutdown bitcoin network at once which is somehow not easy

The only way the bitcoin network can be short down completely is only when the blockchain and the internet are completely turned off entirely and again the founder of bitcoin can also put an end to every but if not the above mentioned it is very hard for the bitcoin network to be shutdown in any format.

Everyone knows that 70% of the world's bitcoin is diverted from China. It can be said that China has the world's largest bitcoin exchange market. Once the Chinese Bitcoin exchange is closed down, it will probably be a devastating blow to Bitcoin and various digital currencies. After the news that all the Bitcoin exchanges in China were shut down was confirmed, the global virtual currency also drove a severe crash.

Bitcoin can only shutdown if there is no electricity and internet, these are the major factors holding up btc and increasing popularity

Bitcoin can stop when people just forget about it, well, it's definitely impossible, bitcoin is profitable to use, can if the current in a few years it will become unpopular, may still ascend a new currency, better than bitcoin)

is the bad news come for bitcoin like all country in the world makes the policy about banned bitcoin forever i think bitcoin will be shutdown, but i think it will hard to happen because as we can know that there are many countries that support bitcoin and will develop bitcoin as their payment in their country

Maybe it will shutdown if there is no more profit you can get to it. But it will never happen to shut it down until we are earning in bitcoin. Many people use bitcoin that's why it will never ever shutdown.

If people stop buying it or losing interest or the entire electrical grid gets killed it may happen. That's definitely super likely though, right? /s

Bitcoin can never be shorten down,its community is growing like wild fire,many new users are joining by the second,meanwhile blockchain technology is taking over transactions,..so I really doubt bitcoin being shorten down,

No it can't. This is the reason why Bitcoin is so trustful and accepted as a global payment method. If you imagine all nodes stopped in the future there is Blockchain Stallite that syncs the blockchain from space.

there is a possibility that bitcoin will be shutdown if all of us will quit in bitcoin but if we are still here and supporting bitcoin then of course bitcoin will stay and it will never be shutdown.

I think it is very impossible. Bitcoin will shutdown if internet nothing and if technology is died. as long as technology and internet are there then bitcoin will still exist.

It can happen. To ban it or completely shut it down a worldwide banning of the currency is needed or the IP. With the government agreeing with the shutting down of Bitcoin, we will be forced to go back to the Fiat system or there is gonna be a new currency. Considering the importance of BTC in our life, with its security, fast and safe transaction, there a new currency bound to happen.

This is not possible at all . It can only happen in worst conditions when their is not electricity and no internet connection in the world which is not at all possible.Bitcoin is going to very famous in coming decades just show your faith in bitcoin.In many countries bitcoin is legal and people are using it in doing their basic transactions and are earning alot of profit through bitcoin.No doubt some countries are still not accepting bitcoin and even other cryptocurries but their is nothing to panic .One day hopefully it will replace the paper currency.Keep on investing in bitcoin so that your future get secure.Don't believe on such news like bitcoin is a scam or bitcoin is going to end soon.Nothing like this is going to happen.

Of course, the most plausible chronology of bitcoin can die is if bitcoin is banned by all governments in different countries, so special rules for bitcoin prohibition already exist, and surely everyone is frightened, in the end there is no bitcoin transaction activity or bitcoin mining, and bitcoin is dead

Bitcoin will never ever shutdown. It will come alive due to the fact that crypto are still penetrating in different countries. So it will griw instead.

I agree with you, we don't have to worry it is not possible to happen eventhough there's a lot of discrimination and negative thoughts its all about our perception how bitcoin works . If bitcoin will be shutdown in all over the world, the people who are involve are always find a way just to transact on bitcoin,because we believe that the change is approaching to overtake paper money.

I think this is really impossible even netwrk will be shutdown it is all over the internet and we are in the time that all bitcoin will be mined and ofcourse , there are chance that bitcoin will be stable because of that. i DOn't believed that eve people hate it bank and other countries will accept bitcoin and start with business that is why bitcoin will become more stronger than ever think to be shutdown.

Why the current crypto currency market is worse than the Rothschild owned central banking system!
Why the need for bitcoin black?
The founding members of bitcoin own 95%+ of the entire crypto sphere! Founding members are disguised as Satoshi.
The new money system is doomed! The main need in the crypto space is a fair distibution with education to truly empower users, not to continue on the old path of money centralisation painted in a different picture based on tech.

From the start they owned the majority of  bitcoins and manipulated the price to accumulate more of a share in each project.
From this point any other project accepted bitcoin in ICO's and as accumulation through manipulation accumulated their holdings they invested a stake in the other altcoins.
Founding members get involved in a large stage and over time through manipulation accumulate more and more of a market share of the major projects.
Still at a small total market cap 400 Billion the manipulation continues with one goal to own more of a share of each crypto.
December 2017 masses were lured into crypto for the first time strategist to make them lose faith in the space and lose money. Many other rounds of luring will take place and accumulation of a greater % stake will take place into new upcoming projects.

It is the transitioning of the old money to the new money, owning more of a share in the new money than before. Making it seem fair, accidental and a betterment to humanity. When in fact its more slavery and concentration of wealth to the elite.

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n myself bitcoins is not shutdown, because every minutes bitcoins is high and high demand in every country, so many renewable energy technology is made, so bitcoins is not shutdown in electricity issues. on internet issue many of country has a free internet in super high speed internet connection, if many people loves bitcoins, so many people invented the way that the bitcoins prevent shutdown

It's true that other bitcoin / crypto is dependent on electricity and the internet, but user / person also becomes important because need and use bitcoin is user.
No electricity and Internet = bitcoin dead
There is electricity and internet but no one is using bitcoin = bitcoin dead

This is not possible, until there is at least one campsite connected to the Internet, so you should not worry

It is difficult to totally shutdown bitcoin because as long as there is demand for it users will find a way to have the facility to get bitcoin. Electricity makes the internet possible and only chaos will prevent all of these to continue which I hope that will never take place. Bitcoin penetrated the world, both poor and rich countries.

When we are using the word 'completely' it means that the situation should take place in every corner of the world at the same time. There are two possibilities of shutting down Bitcoin network completely or making it worthless, the first one is to disconnect the internet and electricity from every corner of the world which is impossible unless there are any efforts from the aliens.

Alternatively, one can attempt 51% attack to make the whole network worthless. However, considering the huge amount of volume, it will require a huge amount of money to attempt the same. If the attack is successful then Bitcoin network will become worthless on the next second resulting in 100% price fall. In other words, it would be a suicide attempt with billions of dollars so again it is practically impossible unless anyone with billions wants to destroy Bitcoin and his own wealth too.

For me, nope. Bitcoin will not be shutdown. First of all, bitcoin is not handed by the governments and second, There is demand for it users will find a way to have the facility to get bitcoin. It will come alive due to the fact that cryptocurrency are still penetrating.

I totally disagrre that bitcoin can be shutdown. It is really living for a long time I think since it was a decentralized cryptocurrency and we the users and buyers are the real reason why bitcoin is still living today as we continure buying and supporting it it will not die. But it can be ban in some countries who didnt like bitcoin.

You must end your mining process to completely shut down the bitcoin web.The state will have to take a joint decision to end the mining.I do not think it would be possible for all countries to make joint decisions.

I don't like bitcoin to be shutdown. But, it is possible to be happen because if many people will stop or will end the mining process it will be shutdown completely. But it is more possible that bitcoin won't end ever because of how supporters or trying to invest, trade and participated here in bitcoin. So glad to continue that, so that it will maintain the progress of bitcoin.

That could be many way reason, but i think it will got big effect when
- No internet connection
- All of web wallet / exchanges are being shutdown by government, so we are having difficulty convert Btc to fiat or other currencies.

After a long period of silence, finally came up with your opinion about Bitcoin Bitcoin better than the real money in that you do not have to go to the place and of course, with the big deal the currency is quite inconvenient. Interested in electronic money, but unlike Bitcoin. This will not be an anonymous currency. "Electronic money will become popular in India as well as in some African countries and will help a lot of the poor" over the next five years.

I think if the internet goes down too so as the bitcoin go down too , but I think it will never happen because it's part of our daily lives , and we are living on a new era which is techno era. But unless there would be a huge crisis where all the internet will force to close , still we don't know how far bitcoin goes , but then again long live bitcoin.

Actualy bitcoin can shutdown in the future if all the governments surely ban in all over the world no one accepting bitcoin and no mining no transactions. Shutdown electricity too and enternet will shutdown bitcoin.

There's no way you can shutdown Bitcoin because no one owns or control the bitcoin so if you have Bitcoin then you can do whatever you wanted to do with it, Bitcoin is not a network so no one can stop Bitcoin transactions and any other cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin works in a blockchain set so it does not depend on one server, if there is a problem on one network then another network will solve so it is impossible that bitcoin shut down.

I really hope not. Bitcoin is now on the rise, at the very beginning of the path. Bitcoin will be very long.

I Think,Bitcoin can shutdown any movement, but its nathing, when any country not support government bitcoin roll and transactions,then Bitcoin is shutdown,but any think bitcoin is actual crypts in world.

You must end your mining process to completely shut down the bitcoin web.The state will have to take a joint decision to end the mining.I do not think it would be possible for all countries to make joint decisions.

Biticoin can shutdown only if all the governments and countrys ban bitcoin around the world and shutdown all of there mining equipments including manufacturers. And the second way is if all people dump bitcoin and no one will accept bitcoin around the world and thats almost imposibles to happen.

Never. Bitcoin will never be shutdown because it is knowned worldwide. Not only that, bitcoin rises or expands too fast. Spreading immensely and not one will and can't stop it. This is just the beginning of bitcoin and it will go too far and rise to the top.

Bitcoin can never be shutdown by any government. The highest the collaborative effort of the government can do is to regulate cryptocurrencies. They already know that. I heard people mention shutting down Internet, this will affect cryptocurrencies but fiat currencies operation nowadays requires Internet to function well.

I don't believe bitcoin will shutdown, as long as there is an investors and users that continue to use bitcoin, it will also continue to grow and never gonna stop.

Under the present scenario it is NOT POSSIBLE to Shutdown bitcoin as to bring down the curtain down either the Internet is need to be pulled down, or the electricity to be shut down.

Given these conditions are in most likelihood is impossible to meet. as such we can conclude it is not possible to shutdown the Bitcoin.

Bitcoin can be shutdown if the internet or the electricity are down in all the country of the world and i don't think that is possible

It can be shutdown of course.  Well maybe the government will intervene but it seems impossible because of different views on bitcoin.  Absolutely if there would be no internet and no electricity.  And that is also impossible.  So I guess it is not possible for bitcoin to be shutdown.

Never think that will be possible due to his decentralized nature  ,i only believe the price can fall big but people will still be trading it..

Bitcoin is not a weaker currency that it can be shut down by one person easily it is a very strong currency system and through this currency we can make online transactions in the world and if we look at the bitcoin features and altcoin it is very convenient for us to use this and at right time we can use this currency for payments for investment and trading of crypto is also good and i like it.

NO. The presence of internet and power will not allow it to die except if they die. Internet and electricity is the major sources for the death of bitcoin. The price is really picking up and the solutions are here to stay.

If all sources of electricity, data and internet communications were closed down throughout the planet, bitcoin nodes wouldn't be able to contact each other. The system will be futile

Unless every single government in the world bans bitcoin and makes it illegal I don't think Bitcoin could be shutdown and all the governments banning bitcoin isn't going to happen as at least some countries are going to be in favor of crypto currencies and they would be enough for Bitcoin to survive in this world.

Yes it is a new thinking but opinion is when the people not to use online currencies bitcoin may be shutdown or die but it is not possible in today’s generation and online currency are very comfortable for them to access easily.

Well I guess you should first convince everyone that bitcoin is not a good thing to deal with before you can actually shut it down. When things like this have become engaged in the economy, it will be nearly impossible to stop it because some people will still supports it no matter what. As long as there is a country where it is allowed to be operated and the people has freedom to choose, I can say that bitcoin will last until mankind ends.

It will be shutdown only if its creator Satoshi Nakamoto decided to shut it down forever. But why would he will do that? Seeing how his/their creation's success over the past 10 years will are making them proud and wealthy. So i don't think bitcoin will ever be shutdown for good.

Absolutely yes it can be shutdown like if we are having disasters, wars or crisis then everything that related to the Bitcoin network processing  will be shutdown or will be affected like the electricity, communications and internet connection. Without these tools Bitcoin will be gone.

Yes bitcoin is a decentralized coin so no one can manipulate the price but they have a developers that keep the bitcoin in good condition. And the supporters of bitcoin around the world is very strong. So it is never beened shutdown.

I am not aware that anything in the history of the mankind was shot down ever be and this circumstance alone guarantees that it will not happen to bitcoin as well. Theoretically and practically it could be shut down in local areas without electricity and internet, but if you live in those areas you will have other problems than electronic money not working.  

      Maybe it will be happen to bitcoin if we go back to ancient time which is there is no electricity supply because we are all know that bitcoin is online digital currency which always need an internet that also need electricy for every transaction. Even Government ban bitcoin as long as there is an internet bitcoin will continue to live and exist in this world.

I agree with you but I think it won't happen. I think Bitcoin will stay longer and the price will increase. People continuously supporting it so there's no way that could bring Bitcoin down.

if we analyze how Bitcoin started its way and what it went through, we can conclude that no, it will stop only if the Internet dies!

Only when governments around the world unite to shut down the Internet and power systems, BTC's systems can be shut down!

Of course, shutting down the world's networks and power systems would be devastating to the world economy.

I kind of agree with you! But I think that in principle everything is possible! In fact, bitcoin lives, while people believe in it and keep their money in it! If what you describe is going to happen, many will just start selling their bitcoins, which will cause panic in the entire crypto-currency market and people in principle may lose interest in bitcoin, which in principle is commensurate with its disappearance!

Bitcoin will not be shutdown; the price will fall but it will never gone. Bitcoin is now becoming powerful and the demand of people is getting higher so it is impossible for Bitcoin to be gone.

Yes,  it will if internet will shut down too.  If it is possible in our new generation that internet will totally shut down then bitcoin will probably shutdown too,  but if it is imposible, then bitcoin will take effect as long as there are existing users.

Bitcoin is a digital currency which is work trough the internet conection.so it can stu down if there will be no electricity and no net connection.You wouldn't be able to make any transactions without these :)

No, bitcoin never shout down. Though governments should take a negative step on bitcoin then it has highly possible to shout down bitcoin. But governments should take a positive step then I sure that bitcoin never shout down.

Bitcoin can not be shut down anymore because it is already in the holders who has the authority to used it, their is a chance if internet globally will shut down and that's the time bitcoin will shut down.

I definitely agree with you. There's no enough reason to shutdown Bitcoin. Bitcoin is popular and still number one so I don't think it will be gone. I have a positive feeling that it will stay.

There is only one entity and it is so powerful. THE GOVERNMENT. They are only the big thing that can destroy bitcoin, cryptocurrency and all of our dreams with it. Just a single signature can ruin it all. But based from what is happening now, its reversed. Governments wanted to adopt on cryptocurrency one at a time.

Bitcoin network will not be shutdown. If miners stop mining bitcoin, new miners will realize an economic advantage to mining as it will cost less to mine than the profits realized and new miners will come into the network, stabilizing the difficulty.

Most likely, a complete ban by the majority of the world's States will really be able to stop bitcoin. But it's more of a fantasy than a reality.

The only effective yet almost impossible way to permanently shutdown bitcoin is only through disabling the Internet all together. It is all because as long as their is internet, there will be people that will the opportunity to practically use bitcoin for business and technology. Bitcoin has been already made its name, so erasing its legacy will be a very difficult task to finish because bitcoin has helped many people around the world.

If in the world something happens to the Internet, something global, it will clearly harm bitcoin and may even contribute to its disappearance.

A place without wifi or power couldn't use bitcoin.

Most likely, bitcoin will die if the Internet dies. But now the whole world is focused on the Internet, so even if something happens to him, it will not last long.

I think if the world is disconnecting the internet , that's would be the end of this world because exchanging the informations is likely living or death. Without internet , this world will be just a ruin left over because there will be no more connections from people in this world . It's really hard to happen which mean Bitcoin is also hard to be shutdown.

In the case of 51% majority attack on the blockchain which requires unimaginable computing power to do, yes. But even in this scenario, it would only achieve a temporary shutdown which makes it unprofitable for whoever does, cos the system will strike out the corrupted block. And if it is from government side, just know that it aint gona happen, people are more powerful than government, bitcoin is the people

Bitcoin can shutdown once no one invest on it and no electricity or no internet the are main for shutting down the bitcoin its really important that all of this are not shutting down to always remain bitcoin.

And I guess it don't matter since they can't use Bitcoin in that place.


Happen to "him"? Who's him? Internet is the blood of Bitcoin, without it will obviously die but internet will not die that easily since it is a used scenario that we always use the internet every time in our life.


If no one invest on it I will kill myself. Electricity? Nah, that is way out of the box.

the internet is the most important part in accessing bitcoin, if the most important part is lost or turned off then bitcoin becomes useless, well what is part of the internet, energy resources ie electricity if the need for resources such as electricity can not be produced again, of course all the equipment and activities using electric power will die, certainly a big impact for the Internet because it requires electricity as a connecting road between the two

Bitcoin will be shut down from within if any scenario was viable in that way.    The way that some miners have forked away to another blockchain type is how the original protocol would most likely end.    I dont see it ending from external means otherwise, just one government is not a reason as Bitcoin is a global transfer system and remains anyway.

A bit like how Dollars were banned in the old USSR system, they were used anyway at least on the edges of that empire because regardless this was a good system or better system then the communist operated rouble at that time.    The reason to doubt Bitcoin would be for internal reasons, I did see the fees being so high as a possible end but it has been resolved and luckily it was seen correctly as a problem for long term viability.

If all countries banned bitcoin, if the internet shuts down, bitcoin will also shuts down because bitcoin runs by internet. And if no one uses bitcoin, there is a possibilty that bitcoin shuts down.
Bitcoin will shutdown if that 3 things happen.