Bitcoin Forum

We all know the advantages of bitcoin, but I haven't heard the opposite side of bitcoin. Does BTC have any disadvantages???

Some of the disadvantages of bitcoin are as,
- Government can be ban on bitcoin, and force merchants for not use it.
- Always there is fluctuation in value of bitcoin.
- As it is virtual cryptocurrency, it is totally depends upon internet. If in case internet get off then thats create major issue.
- Also there are chances of lost of wallet in case of viruses corrupt data or hard drive crashes and wallet file is corrupted.

First of all, bitcoin is a constant 21 million, followed by bitcoin lost if lost, lost completely lost. Finally, as the user's bitcoin trade becomes cluttered, these are all significant drawbacks to bitcoin :D

bitcoin is the currency in use in the internet world, so the first bitcoin weakness is for those who do not understand or areas that are not reachable bitcoin will not be able to access it, and also the value of the ever-changing price becomes one of the risks and with high bitcoin prices transaction costs also go up.

There are many disadvantages of bitcoin like, if the government will manipulate bitcoin for sure it will become a great problem. Hackers and scammers also used bitcoin to fool people. Your money in bitcoin is in the air so if it will crash your money also fade. I wish that these advantages will not cause too much for the bitcoin and other altcoin to decline.

The biggest disadvantage of Bitcoin is that you can't secure your bitcoins. Its a cryptocurrency, which is intact exclusively only to technology, and can also vanish (corruption of data, virus, account theft, and internet shutdown). Because of we couldn't touch it yet can manipulate it, no one assures that it could last a lifetime.

the biggest disadvantage is that you still feel unsafe and uncfortable on it especially when it undergoes a hard fork or that it has its lowest of lows. HOwever it kight also be hacked or just abruptly end and it is not something ohysical that you can hold on to

I agree for 3 thing that you mention above as disadvantages of bitcoin.
In no2, always fluctuation of bitcoin value is double face depend of each people.
I mean fluctuation of bitcoin is advantage of bitcoin. Why? As trader i get profit because of the fluctuation.

- Prone to scammer and fraud. If you invest in a website offer to earn bitcoin and suddenly they will closed, there is no way to refund it.
- No refund in your bitcoin transaction unlike in credit card, what if you purchased some product online and the seller never deliver you can't refund through bitcoin.

I think the main disadvantage right now is that its growing too fast! The capacity of the blockchain is not high enough to withstand this many people using it and transfering their funds. Whenever we are able to send tx's cheaply and fast again, then bitcoin will conquer the world.

One of the disadvantage of bitcoin is that it has not yet been accepted as a payment option in retail shops.Also,the congestion in transactions and even now almost 220,000 transactions are not yet confirmed.This feature also stops bitcoin from reaching the stage to be accepted as main stream of payment.

Yes ,Bitcoin do have some disadvantages like it is not legal in many countries so many people are unable to use it.A lot of fluctuation is there due to it's volatile nature which gives a chance to many people to give negative comments about it .One disadvantage i think is that we can't use it directly,we have to convert it into some other form .If someone hacks our wallet or we loose our key to wallet then we have no chance to recover our money .

the biggest issue is scale-ability which is not yet solved even after all these years of argument over scaling issues. we keep hoping something happens, like SegWit being used or LN does something but the mempool keeps growing without anything happening :(


the whole point of bitcoin is that it is decentralized and nobody can ban it. saying government can ban something peer to peer doesn't even make sense. it is like saying they are going to ban torrent!