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bitcoin is maintained by core developers, would Bitcoin die a natural death if the developers no longer exist? Or if they stop maintaining/developing/upgrading the system?

Do you think there are only a bunch of core developers? There are hundreds or may be thousands of developers all around the world maintaing bitcoin. I dont think any apocalypse is near which would vanish all such developers.

This seems unlikely...even if the original core developers stopped doing anything with bitcoin others would take their place simply due to bitcoin's popularity and the availability of the source code. Even if the bitcoin popularity and development declined significantly it would not really die because the blockchain and ability to make transactions would still be there as long as we have the Internet. The only thing that would happen in such a case is that there would be fewer transactions taking place and the value of each BTC may decrease as demand decreases.

Obviously bitcoin will continue to innovate, they will also continue to learn and develop existing technology with better course. I myself do not want Bitcoin lost in the progress of time, Bitcoin must continue to exist even though I no longer exist in this world.

You can not kill an IDEA. Even though how much take over attempts there will be on any attack vectors, the message was already reverberated throughout its existence. People learned. If it will perish, we will remake bitcoin if we have too.

Bitcoin will only die if no one use it, developers will just maintain the software or the system. And Bitcoin will die a natural death if the developers no longer exist?. As if the technology no longer exists then developers should too. As long people can connect to the internet, use bitcoin in some many ways, huge companies use it too, and developers doesn't die, every year a new developer born, lol.

Yes, many open source projects end because of lack of development, this usually happens in small projects with 1 or 2 developers.

You should read about Bitcoin on Wikipedia. Bitcoin ecosystem is like an open source so many computers can access to it to make changes. There are thousands of devs out there working on it. I don't think that is where its death comes from

Well if bitcoin wasn't maintained by core developers. the bitcoin network will die even if there are users of bitcoin they need to maintain the server of the bitcoin network in order to us to keep connected to the network. and also if the devs stop upgrading the system which always do, the system will be breachable by hackers, and insert a virus or a code that can make serious problems. so, bitcoin will die without the devs maintaining it.

No death of bitcoin! Simple tool for trading and manipulation will rise up more, and is changing the world to huge abyss between honesty and great fraud with the way to the first one...

I bitcoin ever dies, and I don't think it will, it won't definitely be from that cause. Bitcoin is open source, you can see the code on GitHub, and there are many devs working on it. If I'm not mistaken bitcoin is developed though Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs). These proposals are public and need to be approved. This is how bitcoin gets developed, so there are many devs behind it, and they can't all die.

I think bitcoin will never die it is not in developers if developers are gone or if they are not upgrading it i think they will stay and adding more developers since bitcoin is growing and i think in the future we will see more people will use bitcoin that can increase the population of use of bitcoin..
And developers for bitcoin will stay growing.

Why honestly you wanted bitcoin to die? since bitcoin was already help a lot of people to have freedom when using bitcoin compare using the service of paypal and bitcoin has a great future and i think it will alive as long as people using it..

As bitcoin is popular to many country, I don't think so it is going to end, as a matter of fact, bitcoin gives a big help to all of us here, we can have a profit out of bitcoin and sometime does trade it. so i think bitcoin will last forever.

I think bitcoin has enough developers and more to keep it up and even if some leave there would always be someone to take its place. Also bitcoin has enough power that even it is failing then it would also be enough to enamor othe developers and keep it standing

I do not believe that a successful project can leave all the developers and miners. They can bluff, you can try to run parallel to their projects but to completely abandon a steadily growing income is impossible. Bitcoin really needs constant improvement. I hope it will never end and bitcoin will always be competitive.

Even if they all stop working on it which i doubt. Bitcoin is so profitable that there will be always people to work on it.
Bitcoin won't die and never will

there many developers in the world that maintain bitcoin. and if ever all these developers will disappear, we probably are gone too. the only reason bitcoin will die is if internet and electricity and turned off permanently. most likely it will not happen.

As what other people says, there are a lots of supporters and developers of bitcoin which is impossible to abandon the project. we cant see them abandon it at the same time so if 1 developers quit for his job then there's a lot more and also more aspirants to be one of the developer of bitcoin.

bitcoin is not a physical machine to age as it works and need "maintaining"! it can continue to work as it is for may years without any issues. all the things you see are "additions" and although they have helped bitcoin's future but none of them were necessary for its survival.

besides, did you think there are only a handful of programmers in the world?

oh, and by the way stop centralizing bitcoin

I think bitcoin never dies because bitcoin has helped a lot in the economic change of people in every country and bitcoin will also increase over time so I'm sure bitcoin will be a future that can be accepted in every country just waiting for the technology they design and can accept bitcoin as the official currency they consider to be the currency in their country

As far as I know no one is developing bitcoin anymore, it was already developed way back in 2009. The one who maintains it is the blockchain, and blockchain is not maintained by anyone it is shared on the network and is being updated on every transaction.

Unlike Altcoins which have a specific purpose for its price to increase, the business where it is being used should be maintained.

There are so many briliant developers around the world, as brilliant as Satoshi Nakamoto himself even. For as long as bitcoin remains as valuable as it is right now, it will not be a problem for bitcoin to look for replacements. But this is actually a far-fetched idea that will hardly take place in reality.

As long as there is still money to be made in the use of Bitcoin, then I don't think we would have a shortage of developers to be working for Bitcoin. An idea whose getting to be so popular everyday will attract the best talents we have available. Now, if other coins which are still in the experimental stage can have no problem attracting volunteers (working without salary but possible stake in the company), how much for a coin whose supremacy is clearly shown in front of our very eyes?

Of course, not unless there would be programmed cyborgs that would be hunting each and every core developers wherever they might be in the whole world then we would have a big program. Okay, I am just kidding but you know what do I mean, right?

And mind you guys, I think this can be the 58th thread I have read talking about the possibility of the death of Bitcoin! When will this question be dead?

bitcoin will never die. i think they live and add more developers since bitcoin develops and i think in the future we will see more people will use bitcoin which can increase the population of bitcoin usage and developers for bitcoin will keep growing

Surely developers of bitcoin anticipate the death and the possible turn over for the development of bitcoin. This os the new currency of the world so I'm sure they had planned everything for the future of bitcoin and as long as the market and demand of bitcoin continue to grow bitcoin will never die.

when talking about death I hope bitcoin will not experience it because bitcoin is widespread and many people use it so if it is said to be dead this is not possible but if it happens i will never know and this will not happen.

I believe bitcoin will still exist. Im surely company can anticipate any existing problems. so dont worry about that. no reason bitcoin will death and in the future we can use easy paymet of bitcoin

bitcoin will not die as long as global economic conditions are still like now stable no one can stop bitcoin. as long as there are users bitcoin will still run

Bitcoin is just beginning his life. This is the newest technology that will change the life of every person. He will not die just because he invested a lot of money. And the blockchain technology is very interesting for many people

I don't know about this Company you are talking about? But what I know is as long as there are a lot of people who are interested in these new types of investments and new digital currencies, bitcoin will be always alive. It is been years since bitcoin was first introduced and right now it is still alive and still pumping through great price. It may dump, it may pump, but I don't think it will be "dead".

Good. One example of this dead coins are more likely to be seen in the altcoin sections which are just left behind.
One question to the OP. Have you ever visited Yobit? When you somehow visit it you will see the exchange with so many coins registered. Most of them are dead and some people are pumping them like CPR.
They could do that even without the developers.
Somehow that tells those coins are still alive right? It is just not active.

I don't think you know what bitcoin is exactly. Bitcoin isn't a company or a machine that needs weekly maintenance, it is a decentralised system. To talk about the death of bitcoin because of one person or a group of people is nonsense.

In my opinion, death of bitcoin is highly unlikely. Bitcoin will never stop unless development of technology itself stops. The developmental stage of bitcoin is still in its early stages, more and more people are being aware and interested in bitcoin usage every single day. If you would look at the chart and study the trend of bitcoin's price, although it has its ups and downs, we can see the exponential growth and know that it is pretty much alive and kicking.

I think bitcoin can't die.. as you can see there's a lot of hundred or thousands of developers in the world. In this digital currency either the main core stop there's other developers that replace it because BTC became popular nowadays and there's a transactions  that support BTC to be more sociables to others..

Not really, you need to know where all there will be next generation :)
So how the bitcoin will die, there are still many trips that must be taken now for the development of bitcoin in the future of course all that has been prepared from now on.

It seems unlikely  and bitcoin never dies, and the only way for being dies of bitcoin is to stop trading it on international level by all the countries of the world, but i dont see that it will stop, because here people will do some big projects which is in real, so no one will banned it on international level, and if all countries not banned it so how bitcoin will die.

This is so stupid question, there is not just one developers there are many, why would they end their livelihood by stopping to mine Bitcoins. Every time a Bitcoin is mined they earn a good commission, so no the Bitcoin miners will never stop mining, do you have any idea of how good amount of money they make? So think logically why would they even consider this thought, so lock your topic.

impossible if bitcoin really dead. bitcoin to date has been popular and bitcoin users have spread all over the world. and it will increase market demand. the higher the bitcoin market demand the harder it is to die

You know what, the bitcoin core is not only maintained by handful of developers because that has been the case, the numbers would have swallowed them and even make bitcoin core a thing of the past but the issue is that beyond them a lot of individuals have keyed into that dream. Satoshi is no longer in the picture but the dream is still being carried on which means even if the core developers are no longer there, bitcoin will still continue to survive because a lot of new people come in everyday.

It's never gonna happen

Bitcoin is now strong and it is becoming more strong everyday as the price is too  high. There are lots of Developers who can develop the Bitcoin later on, so no need to be concerned about that, just focus purchasing Bitcoin.

This is an probability to generate income from Bitcoin and it is really showing without any questions. Atlast you see a lot of cash that are centered on Bitcoin pockets so their will be undoubtedly for upcoming dispose of.

In my opinion, bitcoin will never die and will even grow more fertile.
Several times bitcoin has fallen with various problems but bitcoin continues to show its existence, by sharing growth and growing rapidly, bitcoin is the latest economic form.

Bitcoin is a remarkable advancement, and not everyone knows.
in my country people do not yet know how to use Bitcoin.
and I'm sure the future is very bright, and bitcoin will be the world's currency and everyone uses it.

this question leads another question, why should the core developers wanna stop maintaining and developing the system till make bitcoin dies?
they have to know that nowadays bitcoin becomes so popular. if they do this, it certainly makes users of bitcoin all over the world feel disappointed. and I am the one who disagree and don't want bitcoin dies nearly time.

I think Bitcoin will never die, because Bitcoin has been seen until now, the price is so high, so Bitcoin will not die, because the demand is so much in the community, only fools think Bitcoin will die, or they do not want to see Bitcoin grow in society .

Agree that Bitcoin gets maintained by Core Developers, but why do you think that it might "die"?
Bitcoin is an open-source project and all the material related to it is available on github for developers to be able to do anything with its properties.
Don't you think these Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold coins must have that open-source code used in it to be called "Bitcoin" before their alternative names?
Even if they stop maintaining the system, the base is too much firm that contains many more reputed developers who would take over the project to continue developing it in the future and add upgrades eventually. Don't be too scared, when a "bulb" was invented, did it stop there only? We now have LED lights available for some great brightness at less expenditure (electricity consumption).

There are lots of developers that can take their place in maintaining, developing and upgrading btc system. There's no way btc will die even if the pioneer core developers no longer exist. Besides, how will those developers thay cause hardforks do some upgrades if they don't know how btc system works, right?

Yes I agree with you but it is not only the developers and miners. People make something for sale in the market but if there is no customers then the production of that thing is totally lose. Therefore I think people all over the world also the main cause who have kept bitcoin alive.

If the investment becomes zero today, the death of bitcoin occurs the same day. So I think that all the people who are involved in bitcoin keep bitcoin alive.

Why did you think that way?
Do you know that core developer has any legitimate or not?
I believe Bitcoin is running with a great system and that is fully automated, that is why I also believe that Bitcoin will not die very soon due to death of its developers.

in my opinion the death of bitcoin will occur when the people around the globe stop accepting bitcoin as their regular and legal currency, or the other cause is the availability if there is no bitcoin available in the market, what will people buy? But I am sure it will never happen because lots of people are there in this market and they will never let bitcoin die because of the benefits they receive.

While there will be demand for the life of bitcoin, and the developers have nothing to do with it, they have created a mechanism that can be maintained without them. Therefore, I see no problems.

Till now there is no essence of degradation or death of bitcoin as developers keep saving them and developing it though they happen to left over there are ample of developers left still to continue such processes

Bitcoin is maintaining and updating by core developers as well next generation developers. So it’s not possible that all the developers left developing bitcoin at a time. Bitcoin is going popular day by day because it unique characteristics. If a group of developers stop updating bitcoin, on other end a billions of developers are interested in bitcoin.

Though Bitcoin is getting popular day by day it is becoming also a concerning issue for many people. I think Bitcoin is totally dependent on the Internet system. So Bitcoin can die only for the technical problem. If any other technology would be a threaten for this system so only technology can be a rival for Bitcoin.
Since Bitcoin is maintained by the core developers and unique code system so that Bitcoin would be a safe currency, so far we have observed that Bitcoin is not going to die very soon and it will not be dead system for good.

I don't think that the developers will do that. You are free to express your opinion but I think I disagree with it. The developers won't let bitcoin die because a lot of people are laying their lucks and earns here. It won't die only because the developers won't maintain and upgrade the system. Bitcoin's rival/killer will be the worldwide internet shutdowns or world war. The technologies will stop and no one can use bitcoin ever again. But for me no one can beat bitcoin.

Yeah, that's very imposible, especially now that bitcoin was so famous. Many people now adays using bitcoin, so i think it will not happen as long as many people are using bitcoin . Bitcoin is with us today and in the future.

lol "Death of Bitcoin. I thought that Dimon wrote this topic.
If we erase Bitcoin right now nothing will change.
The world is already changed.

They should know that today bitcoin is becoming very popular.
so Bitcoin will never die, because Bitcoin has been seen until now, the price is very high, because the demand is very much in the community,

Great whether bitcoin wasn't looked after Eventually Tom's perusing center developers. The bitcoin system will bite the dust regardless of there need aid clients from claiming bitcoin they need on look after those server of the bitcoin system so as will us on keep associated with the system. And likewise if those devs prevent upgrading those framework which constantly do, the framework will be breachable Toward hackers, Also embed An infection alternately An code that could aggravate not kidding issues. So, bitcoin will bite the dust without those devs administering it.

Bitcoin never dies, it's multiple! I know that developers have a good reasons to continue their bitcoin plans. Perhaps there so many things we like in bitcoin. It's is easy to manage no hazzle. And we support bitcoin developers to continue their good intesion.

There will always be people involved in the development of bitcoin, sometimes there are crazy ideas like bitcoin cash and gold but there will always be someone focused on the true bitcoin.

Those developments we do see are just really add ups which isnt really necessary at all same as you said because bitcoin can still live without those updates or further developments and thinking off that bitcoin is an open-source thing which anyone could really access it but controlling it would really be an impossible thing.Bitcoin wont die as long theres a community support on it.We can really make such questions because curiosity would really be on our minds specially when we are still new on bitcoin but rather on asking better to read up bitcoin wiki  8)

Definitely if there is no one who use bitcoin, bitcoin will die but it is impossible because I think there are many developers exist here to maintain bitcoin being the strongest cryptocurrency around the world.

I've only been in crypto for about 7 months. In that time I've done a lot of research and a lot of trading. I have 600+ posts in this forum, almost entirely in the altcoin section. My biggest mistake so far, and repeated several times, has been to underestimate bitcoin... which is why I am finally here in the bitcoin discussion. Blockchain is the future, and bitcoin will lead the way, pulling the good alts with it.

In the first why will they be gone, if some one is gone for some reason people thaat also support will get a replacement and besides bitcoin is decentralized there are so many people and miners handling this, as long as people is profitable bitcoin will exist and so are the people who manage it.

It will be really sad if bitcoins die. As a huge number of people are dependent on these. In my point of view, the developers should keep developing this thing which might be an asset to the world in the future, its our work to make them realize.

No.there are thousands of developers out there.Your assumption will not happen ever.We can have more new core developers coming into bitcoin. So no.

Bitcoin is being using vastly And the user of bitcoin is increasing Day by Day. In this circumstances, the developers are working hard to maintain the business. If they stop updating or developing the system then a lot of people will suffer. They will lost their money. A lot of online worker will loss their work. It's our duty to make the developers aware about the importance of bitcoin. Because if the coin die, a tragic incident will happen.

There are like thousands of developers all around the world. I dont think all of them can stop in the same time. Of course some developers stop doing work for bitcoin but everytime one quit another one join the system. There is no reason for developers to stop since bitcoin is doing so great in last time

Bitcoin will never die, all information is always saving, they can make back up, it just will take long time to restore all files, developers just create bitcoin and made all others thing working automatically how I think. They fixing all bugs for bitcoin system would always working.

Definitely not, bitcoin will not die due to developers, but it may die when the market refuses it. Always grow and always go up, strong and stable.

You actually mean that there are core developers of bitcoin, but that is false, you are probably a newbie in here and you are trying to spread fud over this. They doesnt even exist, or at least, we dont know anything from their developers or from the real Satoshi Nakamoto (if he really exists)
But why are you caring about that? enjoy it man, nobody knows how much time will bitcoin last.

Do you think they are the only ones willing to work on such a revolutionary tech? Anyways, as long as we're talking about it, I'd like to see lukedashjr gone. Literal religious extremists should have nothing to do with bitcoin. Or any crypto for that matter.

bitcoin can not be dead, because she's rising everyday and many people are using this and even companys are using bitcoin so its very difficult that bitcoin be dead.

People who live in fear will always find information that puts Bitcoin in a position that looks like it might fail but that's to them. Other people only see it as succeeding.

As some of you already said, bitcoin will never die. Maybe the core project may die, but never the idea behind it.

The only way the idea can die is if there is a better proposal or no need for money at all... But I think we're hundreds of years away from that probably. When we master space traveling and have fully autonomous robots, there won't be any need for money anymore in my opinion, and also no need for bitcoin.

It could happeb if developers does not have their heart to the investors of bitcoin at all. If they will.gonna get all the money of people who is totally so bad. But I think it would not happen because I know they are good enough and bitcoin already soared high and reach good history so why they will going to let bitcoin die and put things in down with bitcoin because surely even them yhey have good amount of bitcoin now they have good income with this.

I can sense that too mate. Spreading fake news like this, death of bitcoin is not a clear and just information. They don't even bother to show and prove to us how will bitcoin die. They're just making issue because they know themselves that they can't be that patient to wait for bitcoin to pay them. In other words they are hesitant that bitcoin will continue living in the economy and therefore, will die or gone for good. Actually, they're just wasting their time posting such negative things about bitcoin and we believe that bitcoin is still alive and no death can beat for it is immortal in crypto world.