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Hello!
We, all crypto users are wish a long life to bitcoin to it continue to bring us some extra profit on different ways. But one day something new will replace bitcoin. My question is - how many year you give to bitcoin before it will turn totally useless?

between 175-450 years.

It will turn useless if there's no more miners. But do you think that time will come if miners stop mining it? I'm not even thinking about this given that the total mined coins are about 17.6M and that's near to the total max supply of 21M.

I can say for now that bitcoin is here to stay and we're far from seeing that point.

Bitcoin could never be useless unless there is no more people using it,
And I think it wouldn't happen because even if some alt-coin take's Bitcoins place there would still be a Bitcoin supporters that would continue to use it.

Useless ? What if it's the starting of something big , you know the Bitcoins is improving day by day and the core developers are into programming it in a way that they integrated it with our society now , I don't think it's going to because useless because the era of cryptocurrency just began in 2009 and it still has a lot of scope to grow .

The limitations of paper money is not something that can be entirely wiped out using some other source I think Fiat + cryptocurrency is what the world needs.

Also it's not useless if there are no miners . There still are traders , investors and developers and remember that since new generation is much more elastic it will for sure ensure it's increased life expectancy.

Fiat and Bitcoins ;
Both have many advantages and disadvantages but if they work together it's bound to produce new and more stable economy in the future.

Dead are the things which are useless and not up-to-date not something that still have a lot of scope.

Not necessarily, the fact that you think so does not mean it us bound to happen, Bitcoin has existed for a decade and it that time it has only grown. Technology always improves, and new prototypes would always be introduced, but the existing technology can also keep improving to stay ahead of the competition

If something ever replaces Bitcoin, crypto as a whole is fucked. Whatever that replaces Bitcoin will be replaced too at some point and this will continue until crypto has become completely redundant as a whole.

Good thing for Bitcoin is that more and more people start to see it as a digital form of Gold, and the best thing is that more and more people actually buy Bitcoin because of that instead of it being a quick flip investment.

I am not a huge fan of Gold, have also been trashing it when it comes to its usability as money, but there is no comparison in its own field. Gold is absolute in every possible way as precious metal, and that for thousands of years now. I can respect that.

Anything on this world can be replaced and Bitcoin is on exclusion.Talking about on how many years then i would definitely say that my entire lifetime wont really be enough.  ;D

Bitcoins journey is unpredictable when it will end,but it will surely end when miners finally quit mining and because miners are the foundation of bitcoin transaction on day by day bitcoin usage will not be available so its a death and end for bitcoin

I really love Bitcoin and the brains behind the whole idea of peer to peer transaction but as an open-minded person "Nothing lasts forever"
Just like any other innovation in the past, it could either be modified to fit its use in the future or It could totally be replaced with something people will think is better.

I think that soon it will be first end. End of bear market :)
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I dont know how people would even begin to guess. Right now Bitcoin is thriving, and if you see something different get on to that.

I think the question is difficult
Because we do not have the proper mechanism to calculate it
This is if the premise of the demise of BTC is basically correct.

Bitcoin is not a fixed product. It is a protocol. This protocol can be adapted and developed at any time. If it stays dynamic, then there is no reason Bitcoin will eventually be replaced by something else. It's the same with Blockchain technology. Since 2008, it has been steadily developed and there are now offshoots go new ways. Like an evolution.

If Nakamoto did not make the protocol of bitcoin open source maybe bitcoin now is nothing, because of that anyone of us can develop bitcoin through the code of protocol on Github which is accessible to everyone who wanted to develop. I guess no one got replace on Bitcoin, still, it is the king of all cryptocurrency.

It will become useless when the price goes to '0'.

But do you guys think it's possible? Even if the last bitcoin is mine, people will still continue to hold and trade it. Well, we don't know what the price could be but it definitely will not be '0'.  ;D

This is an interesting question but unfortunately no one can give you right answer for this.

If i ask you how many years, fiat will remain in use, no one has the answer for it. It is basically the demand of bitcoin which will determine the future of bitcoins.

I don't want to think for this one because I still have goals to achieve and I want to be happy everyday. I just want bitcoin to stay for good, its really hard to accept this one. But if this things happen, I just hope that all my goals in life are already done because I can't see any ways to earn more money that same with this market.

If we look at the way how technology updates, it will only have a very short life span. But since because bitcoin is a currency, I do not think it will come to that. It will not be totally useless. Just like how fiat is becoming outdated because of online payments and the use of cards. There is a better way to make payments but we still use fiat anyways.

As long as people are alive it will always have some use.

Even if you look at it purely from a technological perspective, it's bound to survive for a while. It's in constant development and there are a lot of things planned in the future. Barring a massive breakthrough in blockchain technology, I don't see anything rendering it obsolete within our lifetimes.

Bitcoin will totally be useless if there is no people who will mine or even try to use it for trading etc. However i don't think that it will happen soon because we are way far from mining the total 21m bitcoin and also bitcoin is gaining more popularity from all over the world and will be used for a very longtime.

At least our next two generations will not see bitcoin's doomsday for sure. It is incorrect to look at bitcoin as a profit making asset only, because it is not! The way we all are moving towards a cashless economy, cryptos like bitcoi will have a lot more to deliver! Give it a breathing time mate! It is just 10 years old we are already seeing a lot of developments happening. So its certainly not a correct time to talk about its end.

Also talking about the replacement, we already have a lot of advanced cryptocurrencies available for many different usage. But did they replace bitcoin? Certainly No!

As long as there are people who are interested in adopting and using Bitcoin, then during that time the Bitcoin will stay alive and will not die. Bitcoin will never be replaced with another as long as it remains dynamic. In my opinion, currently Bitcoin is still the development stage, not the end of growth. Bitcoin is still the parent of all existing Altcoin.

Never comes out of mind till now,but wild guess do you want?maybe

30-50 years or more longer ,the truth is?for me it will never happen ,not in our lifetime

I will agree that there may be another alternative or substitute to bitcoin but that does not mean that it will later turn useless.
Gold had been existing for ages as an asset while investors do trade it till this days and other store it as a physical asset while bitcoin will remain as a digital currency and store of value for its enthusiast irrespective of whether there is another better alternative to it thus predicting its live span for its to become irrelevant is to me baseless and will not stand test of time.

People still buy vintage cars, even though newer cars are more technological advanced.  ;)  Bitcoin will always be the first Crypto currency and it will always be desirable as a collectors item in the future, because it has a nostalgic value for this generation.

So, Bitcoin will never be useless and it will always have value to someone, even if it is only sentimental value. Let's just be positive and appreciate the fact that Bitcoin will be the most desirable vintage coin in the future.  ;)

It will continue to grow in coming years and not otherwise which only a few certain people believe that the end would come soon, or might reach to 100$ etc. Also the growth would be tremendous in coming time and if some country make it legal in the mean time it would spike in the prices like anything.

Well it's hard to tell. As long as there are people who uses bitcoin and can benefit from it, bitcoin will continue. Bitcoin is a great advencement of technology so expect that it will still continue to grow and people will find it very useful for a long time. Maybe when it reaches its limit for adoption and when people already find it useless. But telling an exact number of years is kinda hard since it'll take so much time, I guess.

Nice optimistic view. In my own point of view, bitcoin will never die. What will be left for those exchange that trusted bitcoin? What will be left for those investors that sacrificed a lot of their money for investing in bitcoin? There are so many reasons why bitcoin will never die. And the main reason is, a lot of users are being added in bitcoin every year. So it means that this currency is being backed by many backers.

Bitcoin will end when all the governments around the world stop printing extra money and learn to control their economies better. It will never happen

Why bitcoin? Question should be about blockchain.even its so young, there is alternative like holochain which means blockchain will not end but blockchain and it's alternatives always will be in our lifes.

I personally never thought about that, because today's bitcoin fans continue to grow and are difficult to replace. I am sure Bitcoin is always beneficial to the whole world at any time. in fact many businesses have grown and individual Bitcoin users. Including real businesses in the real world such as restaurants, apartments, law firms, and well-known online services such as Namecheap and Reddit. Although Bitcoin is considered a new phenomenon, Bitcoin has grown quite rapidly.

I think it will become useless when nobody will no longer use it and not because people will just dislike it. It would take some time before any newer technology may surpass the current ones we have now so I believe it would be long enough, but if within 30 to 50 years computers will be made even faster the possibility of changing how cryptocurrency encryption is made may force a total system change. Thus may probably end what technology has existed now.

Some are asking how many money that I need to earn to stop me in doing bitcoin. I think if possible I will spend all of myblife in doing bitcoin. Why?because I'am greedy? No! Because I want to fullfil my dreams and goals and most of all, I want to give a good and comfartable life in my family. Don't be sarcastic all of us needs money for daily needs. So I hope bitcoin will never end.

I think it's too early to say what you think. no one can measure and predict for sure, or maybe bitcoin can actually be adopted globally by all countries as the official currency. this can be considered on the other side.
so I guess what will happen later we can't all know, but the benefits of bitcoin will be very useful in every trade transaction or online or real-life shop

Gosh, that sounds a lot like greed to me...

You want to fullfil your dreams by investing in Bitcoin and hoping for massive returns...

Without greed, you wouldn't care so much about money.
But you want nice things...
You want to live "better" than others.

Don't be ashamed of your own greed - own it.

For me of course until the very end wherein probably when miners provide their resignation letter and leave on their work .  Lol because actually miners still working quietly behind and they're still enjoying. so while miners still there i will stay also to make profits with bitcoin even though sometimes  it's struggling it doesn't matter.

Fiat-Paper money and modern banking services exist for around several hundred years.Bitcoin could easily reach 200-300 years,if there's no global disaster or a global crypto mining ban.
If a better cryptocurrency replace bitcoin,this won't be the end of btc.It will continue to exist as the second best cryptocurrency.

Bound to survive isn't a proper word IMO, Bitcoin nature is open source, and that is mean the underlying technologies aspect is built to openly and widely developed by anyone. Also, the technologies of Bitcoin is able to withstand any change in the code with the soft-fork and hard-fork features. It is our job as a user to continuously develop BItcoin, so it stays alive.

Exactly! Also, there are some famous quotations like, "Bitcoin can't go to zero because, if somehow it reaches 1$ I'll passionately buying it."

For someone bitcoin is already useless. For example, those people who live in Bangladesh, I guess we all heard how rough they are to crypto users, so there are not so much people who wish to take a risk and use it, that's why we may say that for people in Bangladesh bitcoin is already useless.
Well, in the case of remining people - I really can not say when bitcoin will be out of use. It will transform in something new probably, and continue to be used for something :)

As long as the best features actually make it to Bitcoin and people find it useful, I don't see how there will be anything replacing it. Bitcoin has grown significantly with SegWit and LN operating as second layer.

I think it's safe to say that the most exciting upgrade will be Schnorr signatures, which actually helps Bitcoin scale on-chain, which means transactions take less block space and thus are cheaper by nature.

I hope Schnorr will make it to Bitcoin this year, because with the block halving coming closer and closer, the network activity will increase as well, which forms a perfect first test for Schnorr to show its usefulness.

Even today, there are more practical systems than Blockchain, and also no one can guarantee that it will not happen after a few years. Crypto is the best choice for now, but its place in the developing world will surely be taken by another system one day.

Would not it be a bit awkward to talk about Bitcoin totally getting useless when we are not yet even halfway to our goal? I do not understand why such a question suddenly popping up in someone's head. Instead of devoting time to such imagination, why don't we try to imagine other possible ways for us to help promote Bitcoin? We still have a lot of time with Bitcoin. There is no point looking for a replacement as of now. It might take a thousand years before Bitcoin will leave this world.

How exactly do you think bitcoin will turn useless if there are no more miners mining the bitcoin?
The only reason I can think of for miners not mining bitcoin is if something unexpected happens out of the box and all the miners suddenly stops mining bitcoin.
This is highly unlikely to happen since bitcoin holds 50% dominance and most of the crypto enthusiasts support bitcoin. Even after the 21 million supply limit of bitcoin is reached, the miners will still be validating the transactions as the mining fees will then be treated as a reward for the miners. I definitely don't think that miners not mining bitcoin will make it useless.

I see it is totally impossible for bitcoin to become valueless in the next century. Humans are always greedy and if someone stops mining bitcoin, the other human will continue to mine thinking he will benefit more from the miner's rewards. And we all know that bitcoin is a blockchain TECHNOLOGY and when we say TECHNOLOGY, it can be upgraded. So even if in the future we will no longer use digital coins, I believe developers will find a way to transfer the data to the new technology. I don't think developers will leave bitcoin to die. Someone will always stand up and take action.

..Bitcoin will exist and last for many generations..we will be gone and many things even us will passed away but the existence of Bitcoin will remain on the future..Bitcoin will become totally useless if and only if there were no people will support,adopt and use it..but as long as we live,the existence of Bitcoin is still useful for us because it gives us the chance to reach what we not expected to reach..

I know and I believe in bitcoin/blockchain a technology. Bitcoin is diving down, market has not shown any growth that all is temporary. I would assume we would need to get above some important support areas which obviously take time, be patient. Individuals that state bitcoin is ends are the ones that get rekt from bad trades. Its going about to long.

How many years the barter system changed by money paper?

That is my benchmark to use/believe to bitcoin, what useless means for you? value/price side, functions side. I don't think bitcoin will useless totally, barter system still use by some people till this time.

Bitcoin still has a huge untapped market and so it has never crossed my mind that it would become worthless a day to come.
Bitcoin is the future of payment .
Some people think that the fall in price of bitcoin means bitcoin is worthless or valueless which is not entirely true.

Day by day the advancement is happening through every sector. Cryptocurrency too isn't an exception, and from my understanding it won't go useless, because when it came to existence there isn't any big usage of bitcoin. Slowly it got its usage and when days pass it'll get used as if we use fiat. Moreover it's value keeps growing as it is limited and more people have begun to adopt as well invest on the same.

See:

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Evolution_of_computers-copy.jpg

evolution

bitcoin is also evolving, it will not die, on the contrary it will evolve and every time it evolves, it will become better and more people will use bitcoin. Bitcoin has an anonymous creator and this makes a lot of difference in relation to the other altcoins. bitcoin is decentralized and struggle to continue decentralized and this makes a lot of difference in relation to other altcoins. I do not see any other altcoin competing with bitcoin

For me I think I would still see it and use it till we all grow up and I think even our son or grandson would use it.
So for me it would take some generation before Bitcoin dies ,It could be replace but we don't know when and what would replace it,
But even if it get's replace by some alt-coin it would go down in history for sure so it wouldn't be out of the crypto market.

I think that you have the wrong theory. Everything has the begininig and the end but I don't think that Bitcoin will become worthless and get replaced with something else. At least not in the near future.
So far many coins have tried to take its place and every time when the price goes down some are saying Bitcoin is going to die. None of these has happened so far and it's not very likely that it will without something completely new and revolutionary appearing at the market. At the moment I don't see anything like this on the horizon.

I'm not yet seeing any coin that could replace bitcoin but maybe you are right and you could also be wrong. Until now bitcoin is still the king of cryptocurrencies and nobody wishes that it would be useless. Though it is true that other cryptocurrencies will come and yes too many do come but still nothing has much impact to beat the popularity and value of bitcoin.

I know that this is highly unlikely to happen but OP is looking for an "IF" and that's what I think that can make bitcoin turn into something that won't have any worth and use at all.

I think you haven't understood the point that if there will be no more miners. Yes, miner plays an important role for bitcoin and it's ecosystem. And even it reaches the total supply, they will keep on mining to confirm transactions and the point is what if they are gone? and that's what OP is asking about. But I'm aware that it won't happen.  :)

Very nice question, well for me BTC will never be useless, if it will become one, it should make altcoins useless as well.
BTC was fist introduce in the market and it's the first one to be popular, at this point of time, it's hard to say that it will be useless if it's holding a high dominant rate. Do you think the coin that dominated the market now will be useless in the future? I don't think so really.

I think bitcoin and blockchain technology which other coins are built are very unique and we are still at the early stages of it developments and because of this we should understand that it might never die and it will be with us till the end of the ages. In reality the discovery of blockchain technology was a solution to long time research of making transactions especially the financial one Anonymous  and kick third party out of transactions and I believe that is what many of us wants.

I think about another 50-100 years until Bitcoin ends. Currently Bitcoin and Crypto are threatening other economies when attracting a lot of investment from investors at present. I can believe that Bitcoin and Crypto will end when there is a better option to replace them in the future.

I believe all this new world for cryptocurrencies will end around the next decade if something blocks it or people will be willing to inovate it.
Just like money (fiat) most of the new technologies and currencies we are seeing evolve with time. And time is what government needs to control such transactions.

The more we support it the more government will accept to use it as their own markets.

This only will happen if something new and more secure than blockchain then bitcoin will be die or not popular anymore. Bitcoin has being used because of the blockchain technology provide a secure fast and anynomous. No middle man are being used to execute the transaction so if only another technology that way more efficient than blockchain then i could say the era of blockchain will be replaced.

I really don't wish that Bitcoin will end and be useless.
Well, if I can say, it may be more than 50 years later.
Bitcoin is one of the products of high technologies of the blockchain. This has made many changes in the thought of investment, mining, and also trading.
This coin is also used for some transaction. It is more valuable as we think about it.
Someday, there may be some other coins that will always compete, but as long as many people who believe and use BTC, it will always ben winner.

It can not become worthless unless nobody is making use of it so it value is zero.
With the amount in circulation with the number of users it will not drop of the end of the world any time soon.

Indeed, it cannot be denied that technology continues to grow, for example in 2004, when the Nokia cellphone brand was the most popular brand, then it was replaced with Android which is now in demand by many people. Of course this will also happen to bitcoin someday.

But I can't be sure, when this bitcoin will end

In my opinion. bitcoin will last for a very long time, it can happen because the most dominant crypto currency in the world is bitcoin. currently there are a lot of crypto currencies, but bitcoin remains a digital currency that dominates the market and bitcoin is very sought after by all crypto users. and bitcoin can last more than 10 years. if bitcoin collapses it will affect the altcoin.

You are right in that bitcoin cannot be replaced periodically by "the next big thing" because it would be pointless to call it a store of value. But that's the thing, in order for hodlers to bother with moving their funds into some new exotic "better than bitcoin" promise it would need to be something mindblowing that destroys bitcoin unarguably on every angle. This is delusional sci-fi right now. Noobs think tweaking some values does just that but that's not how things work.

      It's hard to say how long Bitcoin will be useful. Probably many years. Bitcoin is still a "child" who, through promotion, will grow and become "adult". Bitcoin benefits from a decentralized network, so no government force can destroy it. Bitcoin will not die, eventually will drop the price a bit. The crypto market is the future, and it is led in the top of the crypto coins by Bitcon. Bitcoin, I think it will be the currency of the future and probably in some countries, will replace FIAT coins.

It will never end, maybe it will just an alternative of something soon. How long? for me, it will take a century to create another level of blockchain or bitcoin.
It will just happen maybe on what happened on fiat currency? Like, an alternative of fiat is cryptocurrency, like Bitcoins. It takes so long, so many people created a virtual currency but ended up nothing. Since Bitcoin has the blockchain technology, it will last.

This is just a baseless prediction but i'd guess it'd take about 50-60 years before it becomes useless. For comparison, the internet was created several decades ago but its full potential is only being used now. What more in bitcoin which is still in evolution phase?

Whatever may happen though, blockchain will definitely be used in the future even if bitcoin perishes unexpectedly.

Not possible as it have that capabilities and it turn out that mostly all of us today are now engaging into computers which means that it probably be adopting into this new system. It is very adoptable into us since it somewhat be very applicable into the current era but of course it takes years before its stabilize. Of that long years of bitcoin existence, I may think that we are not alive that time especially if we are having an age of 30 plus right now.  

it's impossible to guess when bitcoin can become useless and worthless. Bitcoin is not a mobile phone or computer you purchased. So it's not a hard ware. You can think of it as a program. For example, the solidworks program is constantly updated and new versions are created. People need a solidworks program to make drawings and this is not the need to disappear. If the new versions of this program are not appreciated and the interest in this program is reduced, there may be less use, but it is unreasonable to say that the program will be stopped selling completely.

It will never turn completely useless unless a huge flaw is found  which can not be fixed and has completely broken down the network. I would be lying or in a state of denial if i say that bitcoin can never be replaced. It is true that it can not be replaced instantly or within a short time, but yeah it will get eventually replaced as time goes by. It is the nature of technology to get replaced by another better technology. We don't know when it will happen. Might probably take few more generations.

I know that there will be something better than Bitcoin created in the future and will replace it. But that hasn't happened now, and we need about 50 years to start the new thing before it can replace Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency.

I agree with you. Technologies are developing and it is possible that tomorrow some kind of coin will be able to replace Bitcoin. But I am sure that Bitcoin will remain a legend in the world of cryptocurrency.

I agree with your opinion that bitcoin will not be in vain because why the price of bitcoin from the past to the present is always valuable

If there is a better technology than blockchain technology, then bitcoin will be replaced so do with the other coins. But I think we still see bitcoin and the other coins right now and the next year because blockchain technology still develops and the team still running the project. And I don't think that bitcoin will be end soon because we are still at the beginning of the blockchain era and maybe blockchain technology exists for a long time.

For me, what will going to end is the bearish trend of market price these days. And for those group of people who said that there's and end of all ends on bitcoin, well I do believe they ended their commitment with bitcoin. Most of them said bad thoughts that btc will end, but in reality it remained stronger in time. More transactions were starting to come from different developing countries. Positive feedbacks now taking their position to gather more people's trust as part of bitcoin's recovery period, specially on social media and other sectors of online stream media.

bitcoin is still in the early stages, adaption is developed day by day worldwide. tbh i don't see an end for bitcoin. for every issue bitcoin is faced with there are so many people working on solutions. bitcoin will have a great future i have no doubt about.

I give bitcoin 1500 to 2500 years before it expire and get replaced by a more advance development, this is so because bitcoin is still at the early stage and lots of development will still happen in the bitcoin network which will further strengthen the usage and adaptation of bitcoin and the major cryptocurrency.

when stopped bitcoin demand and supply at that time that can possible whenever not ending.

That's impossible to predict, but that may not happen until btc reaches incredible heights, as more and more people bet on btc.

We have no idea what will happen tot he future, even those Yahoo creator did not know back then that Google will eventually beat them or friendster will be shut down by Facebook, all we have to do is to make people Adopt Bitcoin and after we'll see what's going to happen.

My honest answer: Till Jesus tarries

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The truth remains that Bitcoin or the blockchain technology isn't going away anytime soon. The phenomenal is been proved to be helpful in other spheres of man's endeavour, especially Accounting. So, how does anyone think it will fade away? BTW, Bitcoin is also a medium of financial exchange as a payment option. I dare say that  Bitcoin is here to stay till the end of the world!

Well, the reply is nobody knows when but the end will come.
People used seashells for payments before, currently the era of paper and metal money is passing, we are in the cashless world. Who knows what is going to be the next step for the humanity?!

In my case it's more sis, than bro. I'm female  ::)
Noone argue that bitcoin came here for long period of time. But you must to agree that today we almost do not use physical money. Cards, Apple pay and many other apps which allow us to not open our wallet's. That's what I meant by saying "cashless" and it's happening with us already today!

We all know that nothing last forever and another crypto currency will definitely replace Bitcoin after it reach the total 21million but Bitcoin will never be useless cause it was the reason why the whole crypto currency scheme happen to beginning it. However, it will be more costly when we reach such stage.

I agree with you. There's really no downside that cannot be beaten in the future i believe.

I also have no doubt that it will have a very great future. But the best part from my point of view is that the Blockchain technology will bring a lot of useful things to the society as a whole.

Robots will be interesting, but with Blockchain a whole new aspect could be opened completely.

bitcoin is not stagnant, there are many people who contribute to make it better, and by that I mean that every year it will become better and people will have more motivation to use bitcoin. it will be very difficult for an altcoin can get the whole bitcoin community to its side. that's because creator of bitcoin is anonymous and passes a sense of confidence. People do not get worried about things like: "What if tomorrow the creator of the coin comes on twitter and says something that makes the coin fall a lot? " With bitcoin people do not need to have this concern


Bitcoin dies? this will not happen


also do not see, more shitcoins appear every day

I think that the current state of the cryptocurrency market will save only real investment in Bitcoin, but for this you need to practically use Bitcoin as a means of payment in everyday life.

I don't think you are still alive when i tell you how far can Bitcoin go. We already know that nothing is permanent and nobody is perfect but consider the range of time on how long could Bitcoin stand on its ground. If ever someone has come up with some brilliant idea that could replace Bitcoin, then why not? If it is for the better good of the community then we stand to choose what's the best for us.

I always say in my own believe 21M maximum supply of bitcoin there's a possible to gain much more than on that amount until they can't reach  the maximum target in the help of the expert of new technology it is possible to get solution how to resolve this.

I dont think bitcoin will useless in the future. If others coin replace bitcoin place as king on coinmarketcap, bitcoin still worth to hold. Bitcoin is store of value and its base currency pairs in market. Bitcoin is like gold in crypto industry and i think with limited supply, bitcoin price will getting more higher than now

if you see a fall then say this is the end of bitcoin, then you will say that thousands of times. prices at any time can fall due to condition factors and fluctuations. if you want to profit from trading or bitcoin investment, then you have to get used to extreme price changes in crypto

Bitcoin still has a chance and is still able to be mined, the supply of bitcoin is still abundant and has not run out so it is still feasible to continue to be an investment. Bitcoin will be valuable even though the supply has been mined, and this I think will be many people who will look for and hold it.

It will stay for more than many centuries for sure. Then end you are talking about is clearly like the doom of humanity or the industry which is always can happen now or in the future but nobody knows if it is really going to happen. So if  we disregard that then we can be positively sure that btc is going to stay for that long.

Do you even know what you're asking about? ??? There is no one here that knows exactly what is going to happen in Bitcoin in the future but it does not show any signs of weakness for now even if the price is lower than the all-time high that it reached last 2017. Bitcoin will never be useless even in your wildest imaginations. :D

Even if all the Bitcoin is mined completely there will still be miners and they will depend on the transaction fees created on a daily basis which means the reward for them might probably be lower than the usual but if this scenario happens there is a huge possibility that the price of Bitcoin will continue to increase because of the demand in the future. 8)

we will always be in trade, as long as it gives us results, we will always be there, but if bitcoin has not given us profits then we will come out and sell all our coins for a period of time that is not specified.

Bitcoin in my year, according to me, nothing has changed except the price, but that's still the beginning of the struggle for bitcoin

It will be very hard bitcoin to become useless. Especially that bitcoin has already been used for payments. And you asked if how many years will it become useless? No definite years because I cannot see that it will come to an end. Rather, I can see future using blockchain technology with most of the merchandise.

What people don't understand is that even if the price will be back to it's original price, Bitcoin will still remain useful
as long as there are miners who will cater the transaction. Everyone should understand the basic, like it's process to determine if it's useful or useless.

It is volatility and the fear among people which has lead to the downfall in the pricr of btc. Else things remaining same and more volume in coming time will grow and as a result price will continue to rise. We can already see that btc has now jumped till 4100$ already.

For bitcoin to come to an end, means there's no miners, no investors and no users believing in it.

If this happened the price will drastically drop until it losses its value.

Yes it might replace by other coin as a better one and be on top but it doesnt mean bitcoin will be an obsolete.

It will stay as long as we are here who believe and continuously supporting it.

Replacing bitcoin is far from reality and i think it will grow more than we could ever imagine,no one believe that bitcoin will reach $19,850 until it happens so wasn’t this enough to believe it’s capacity?

Maybe this is more believable answer from this account


Or more than that if the world is still existing lol 😂

It will take decades before we finally take down bitcoin so I think it will not happen this year or in the coming years. Try to gain more bitcoin because the price will start to pump again and it will finally break the $4k level. We've already earn a lot on bitcoin but I think death is the only limit because this technology continues to grow and whales will always back-up bitcoin to survive.

That's not the best forum to ask this question! Here the majority of people are crypto enthusiasts, and I doubt if someone deliberately will tell you when BTC might "die"

Why are you asking this question? You're here to shill Bitcoin :D.

Bitcoin will only be useless if there are no more people using it. We know that adoption is happening around the world so your question is the one that is useless. If I will set a years before it will be useless. maybe after 786 years and 1263 years.

only the government can destroy Bitcoin and that won't be easy because the Bitcoin community is quite large.
In addition, developed countries like Japan and America have implemented crypto, so I think crypto will be better in the future.

Maybe 60 or 150 year's
But I hope in this year bitcoin can go up again
Until 40000 Dollars or more.

Actually that is very intersting question to me. New things must be create, there is no doubt but i will say bitcoin will sustain till last of my life. I am very happy with Bitcoin that has changed my life as well as. Finally i will say it will continue forever ;D

everything now is possible because of everything wants ,so i think after 150+ years the bitcoin will replace and there are new token that surpass this bitcoin because currently there are so many token that behalf to the price of bitcoin so for me there are big chance that bitcoin will replace in future.

Fixed that for you mate  ;).  Everything in our surrounding evolve, changes, goes to an end.  Even the mightiest empire of all collapsed.  So there is no difference with Bitcoin, but the question when is still unthinkable.  Unthinkable, since Bitcoin is just getting popular, mass adoption left and right and there is still a hundred years left for it to be mined.  After it was mined, when adoption is established, Bitcoin tx fee will secure mining profits.  I also believe in evolution, adaption and improvement to meet day to day demand, if Bitcoin meets this, I guess it will be generations before it become obsolete.

What?!
We will now talk about this while bitcoin is still a baby?
Cmon! Those who really thought about other crypto currencies replacing bitcoin already are being drowned by the creation of new tokens.

Be real! Give me something out there which really have the same feature as bitcoin.
They are like controlled now and only bitcoin is the one which have a better trust rating than any other coins out there.
Just imagine the world of crypto without bitcoin. Will they even exist?  ;D

bitcoin will never be a bad thing, because I myself also think the future of bitcoin is also getting farther and better, because bitcoin is also the most popular coin and also so many investors enter to develop better price increases.

I don't know, I don't think anyone will be able to answer this because no one knows how long bitcoin will last and may even end soon. To be sure for now there will be no coins that can replace bitcoin from its popularity and bitcoin will still remain at the top.

Hmm, how do you say so? In my opinion, btc's growth is no longer in infant stage but in puberty stage ;D since it is now more valuable than before especially way back 5 to 4 years ago. But well, I still get your point. Yeah! Btc is not yet fully matured which means its value still got a chance to rise.
I guess so. Even if we presume that btc will vanish right now, the crypto world still continue to live because options are already present. There is eth or ripple who is waiting to take his throne.

Is not easy to replace bitcoin because of being popular all over the world big community suporting bitcoin and still the no. one cryptocurrency in the market, the world useless dont want to happen by community because all of us want to earn some extra profit so why they want it tobe useless?

Everything is quite simple. Most people take Bitcoin as a source of wealth. They still think that BTC will make them rich, and they will not take any efforts to get money. In reality, the price of the cryptocurrency is not the main thing.

By that time you say bitcoin is useless it is actually being traded on outrageously high prices. Even if bitcoin doesn't support micropayments anymore still it will be the most transparent and non-editable currency there is. So it will surely have a value.

There's no right time frame to predict because everything related to the existence of bitcoin depends entirely on its users including miners and investors. Maybe Satoshi himself did not know when exactly bitcoin became something useless. I think such a question doesn't bring good benefits, there's still a better thing we have to do with its existence, namely to use it as well as possible, because bitcoin always presents positive opportunities in each session, both when there is a decline and an increase.

i believe on this, bitcoin will replaced with another platform that have a new technologies that makes people more easier to use, and i think that it will happen more than 10 years more, because we all know here that bitcoini and blockchaiTn system still have the good performance right now.

Well, it is still in its early phase hence, we can consider it young to envisage its death. Although, something will replace it someday, but certianly not anytime soon.

it is true that it is possible that bitcoin will get a replacement someday, but if we see the advantages that bitcoin has as if it is difficult to replace bitcoin with others. the possibility looks very far away.

That's the reaction in early stage and eventually it will change as we have more adopters who uses more than to invest.
Right now, there are users but they are also investors at the same time, so they have interest on the price, if it increase they make profit.
Also, it cannot be denied that there are people who are convincing others to invest using the bitcoin's success like the bull run to attract them.

When bitcoin above all predicts this is a bubble, it turns out it's not and bitcoin is a digital currency because reality exists.
When the price of bitcoin goes down, many people predict this is the end of bitcoin travel. That was answered because the price of bitcoin was slowly rising and there were more and more users. Bitcoin will continue to survive as long as users still believe and are used throughout the world.

you are saying that bitcoin is at its early stages today ? well id say no  . i dont know if you are aware that bitcoin existed on circa 2008-2009  .  the adoption had already increase and we can see it obviously  .  bull runs can be a reason for people to invest but bears is the one that will attract more investors  . with all of those  ,  how can one say that bitcoin will end  ?

I think Bitcoin will never lose its value. As cryptocurrency develops, Bitcoin will become a major asset for investment, as it is now. Soon we will see that he will overtake gold, but it will happen to no sooner than 20 years from now.

It will never use it's value because even if it will go back to the beginning it can still has a value, less than $1 but still has value.
Bitcoin is not just an investment, it's a technology that is going to change the norms of the world, which is from centralized to decentralized.

Isn't that worthy of an increase in value?

If you ask how much longer bitcoin will last, certainly no one knows. because the development of bitcoin itself shows a positive thing, as long as users continue to use bitcoin and investors continue to exist, then bitcoin will continue to live and give benefit to anyone

Judging by the current trends, I would say about 7 to 12 years. Oddly specific, I know, but that's my bet.

The question for is whether bitcoin will ever disappear totally and not found in cmc because, I think it is a very relevant project and developing with the tech.


 ::) ;D sure your mind.

I feel unsure about that but I believe that bitcoin will be able to last even longer because there are still many people who believe in bitcoin.

A lot, although not everyone.
That makes it very high potential of success in the future.
Bitcoin created the blockchain technology which is very useful and it's even use by a lot of businesses now to make their operation more effective.
The thing that I like with BTC is it's decentralized nature, this is a game changer and will prevail useful than the centralized one.

And people will continue to use bitcoin. We haven't reached our peak yet and mass adoption hasn't even started. Everything eventually comes to an end. Even all the current systems that we have now like fiat and the current banking system, may one day become obsolete. But crypto i believe is still very far from that.

I can not imagine of something that will replace bitcoin I think it is irreplaceable. If all bitcoin was mined there are things that will possibly happen maybe miners will be rewarded by transaction fees made by users and bitcoin price will increase massively so there is no end but this is only my point of view.

Bitcoin is not static, its being improved. This is one reason is has remained on top, it has addressed its own "shortcomings". And there is still more to come. Things like: faster, cheaper and offline transactions to name a few. Bitcoin is also ready to be made even more quantum resistant, and in case the time comes, it can also expand from 8 to 16 decimals. Therefore chances are quite high no altcoin will ever replace it at the top.

Why would it ever be useless? It is quite useful!

I don’t think bitcoin useless in near future atleast in my life time . Then after I am least bother it exist or not I don’t care about . But one thing will sure more bitcoin fork and upgradation will come if any bad thing going to happen with bitcoin again it will regain its life.

bitcoin will rise to the top and be admired by everyone, no one hates BTC, if that person gets a big profit, including me, this is a lesson for all of us to always understand the meaning of a change

Bitcoin born to rise not to end. You don't need to worry about bitcoin since there's hug people there who is using it. Its been 10 years and bitcoin is still on the top of the list. I don't think there's any one who can replace the bitcoin. But yeh if people stop using it then there's some chances of ending other wise bitcoin never end

I agree, the bitcoin are continuously improving in order to give the needs of the community on which having an possibility to become widely used and helping the people to increase their financial status in life.

It's endless question because human is greedy creature and they want to maximize their profit as much as possible.
So as long as possible.

But is it possible ?
Personally I won't take any risk, as long as I have at least 100% profit, I just take it out !

indeed in difficult conditions now to find revenue from bitcoin greatly influence traders to continue to rely on it.but I try to be optimistic and wait for a big surprise next year

Bitcoin is useless if the internet is destroyed and there will only be traditional currencies. I never thought bitcoin would die and become worthless, but bitcoin will remain the main one in crypto.

yeah we dont know. but everything is posible right ? is like real money in this era, i believe the price will be goes to 0 after we all using debit card.

Bitcoin and it’s close deratives will be around up until at least the digital age has come to an end, a period which will be known as the “update” or the “merge”.

BTC can really make you wealthy. This is a real fact. If you hold only 1 BTC today, in 5 years time you can be a millionaire because you never know what will be the price of the BTC after a year. You cannot even imagine it now.

I think if all will be good, it’s about ten years befor all people would know about that.

The technology of bitcoin even these days seems to be getting quite old compared to the new cryptocurrencies that are emerging, or that are in the process of being launched. And I can not imagine how far the complexity of cryptos will go once quantum computing becomes a daily reality. I find it difficult for bitcoin to continue with the vitality of today in the year 2030, but even when it begins to be displaced from its hegemony it will remain an important framework to fix the price of all the others, so its usefulness will continue for at least 30 more years.

For now I will prefer to focus on the present and not bother about what has not come . New innovation to replace bitcoin might not  even be come to in some decades from now. Innovation are not so easy to implement and take over the work.i so much believe the blockchain technology will remain even if the bitcoin is no more

I also hope that bitcoin will be able to stay for longer and even forever benefit me, but I think bitcoin will stay forever, because of technological advancements.

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Until now I have not seen and thought until it will happen that bitcoin will be completely useless.
rather, I might hope that it will be different from what you are asking, hoping there will always be.

will become useless when people lose interest in bitcoin but until now I have not seen the signs,but on the contrary bitcoin starts to develop every year,and as we hope all hopefully bitcoin will last even longer although someday there will be newer technologies in the future.

I don't think bitcoin will ever become useless because as far as cryptocurrency industry is concern bitcoin will still remain the dominant crypto and the leading coin in the market. Even the new stable coin or security token can never render bitcoin useless.

Bitcoin will not become useless, but if miners decide to stop mining, after all 21 million bitcoin in are mined and who send bitcoin put low fee, if they don't get enough to pay electricity every month and have some profit, i don't know what will happen in that case, maybe if that will happen we will need a new way for confirmation on bitcoin blockchain.

Even that we finally reach its limits at 21 million but considering the fact that bitcoin still existing in the market, there is no reason that it losses its value and could make a way to stop mining. The process will continue and we know that there are lots of crypto coins where miners could switch into them. They still have an options and they still be mining again.

We can't measure it actually how long or when it turns out. Its a big question which nobody could answer it, we are just in the speculations and sometime it misunderstood by the others which could create only a dramatic actions.
Since that time isn't arrived, we better have to enjoy this moment and to find out if this new technology could provide us more than as of what we expected to have.

All of we are proud to be a part of bitcoin because right now bitcoin is the income generator of large group of people it also increasing by the number of people so its never ends.

Yes, I also think like you. bitcoin now more and more users are growing too, because in my opinion bitcoin is a satisfying income place. and if asked when bitcoin will end it seems unlikely because the era is getting more modern and many people will know about bitcoin.

Bitcoin is getting more popular from time to time and you can also earn here in too many ways but most likely of them are very risky it needs enough knowledge if you're afraid to lose the money you've invested.

I'm sure bitcoin will last very long until something can replace it in the future for now there is no system that can replace Bitcoin because for now bitcoin is the right currency for the future

I see the ideas of having new ways of possible ventures which Bitcoin offers to the community, we can expect that someday there would be another investment like digital currency, but believing that it won't end and continue to prosper is one of those many reasons to continue supporting and holding this coin, I don't have exact assumptions as I still wants to enjoy what Bitcoin will continue to provide.

Really hard to predict the lifespan of bitcoin if you want to continue its existence. Same here. I don't want to speculate how long will it be in the cyberspace. Let's enjoy the moment while it lasts.

I never thought bitcoin would end because I am sure in the future there will always be people who use and support bitcoin. Bitcoin is the main and most valuable currency in cryptocurrencies. so even though one day there will be 21 million coins. I think it will still be a valuable coin because everyone likes bitcoin.

I am sure the bitcoin has longevity. Bitcoin has strong fundamentals that will make investors are welcome to invest in the bitcoin. However, I am unsure if the bitcoin crushed gold will becomes all the currencies in the world:)

I also think like you. I think bitcoin won't end but even more prosperous because bitcoin is a place to get money easily, it's just that it doesn't require a lot of energy. of course the goal of all is to get big profits but it might take a long process. but I'm sure Bitcoin will benefit.

Unfortunately, no one can give you a clear answer of this.
This is a very bold speculation to make.
My suggestion is not to bet on speculation, but on facts, and to be 100% aware of the market news, Ita business model, Ita code base and applicability.

I think bitcoin will still be able to survive for the next 50 years, indeed nothing can last forever, but as long as crypto can still survive and during that time bitcoin will survive.

Well i am a believe in which there will be way more coins than those 21 million set by Satoshi himself.
Let's think as for example IP's where IPv4 is decreasing rapidly and being replaced with IPv6.

There's still chances where we use some unused IPv4 (with consequences) and IPv6 (with some non optimizations).

Those are good examples on how Bitcoin could turn out (reusing some old but clean addresses / blocks) or creating a new set of block addresses by extending previous ones.

I think crypto will continue after a long time it can give some extra benefit on different ways. But after  some years  new coin will replace but not bitcoin. My answer is - it ever and never not change can come some different rules.

if it is adopted and widely used, it can become as popular as fiat

It will last long if we go on supporting it and investing much money in the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin needs investors, the people, who believe in it. In this case, it also has many chances to grow.

There is no.
I don't know when bitcoin will be replaced or never at all. To be sure now I still believe in bitcoin and maybe other people too.

That's what happened, nobody knows about the future. Although many say bitcoin will be replaced by other crypto as an example of those who are very enthusiastic like eth and ripple, but as long as bitcoin still has a big influence on the crypto market, I won't leave it even though the price falls. The potential will always be there and there are still many people investing in bitcoin and even holding a lot of bitcoin, of course, of all those who have high confidence if bitcoin is able to become something very influential in the world later.

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When something new born to this world.
A brand new transaction currency with ease of use and very safety wallet. also it will need decentralized also to defeat bitcoin.
Until that day come, i think bitcoin is still the best way to do a hidden transaction (you know what it used for)

Bitcoin will be around for the rest of our lives, so to be honest this question is somewhat irrelevant. Unless some super-secret quantum computer suddenly unleashes a vicious attack, bitcoin will be safe - and even then it can be forked. Bitcoin won't die.

what is clear is that there will be no right answer, because until now bitcoin still has a large community or maybe in the future its existence will be greater than at present, with mass adoption in all countries.
and I don't think it ends quickly or in the next few decades

Or maybe we'll have a new kind of money, better than crypto
Like, you won't need Internet to make a transaction: just by thinking about it, you'll be able to send money!  ;D

I don't think that Bitcoin will become useless. By that I don't mean that it might not be replaced with something else but despite that possibility it will continue to exist and there will be people who will use it
New emerging technologies and artificial intelligence are providing endless possibilities so I'm sure in one moment something more advanced and successful than Bitcoin will appear but that doesn't mean that Bitcoin will be completely terminated.

It for sure, everything has its ends and so Bitcoin. As development continues, old technologies will be replace, will possibly this thing have its end at the right time. That's we've never know when it happens. And before that certain thing will happen, we have to enjoy the moment it came to us and used this according to the purpose of its creation. We are the part of this discovery and can't be replaced for that easily until people found a new one better than this.

lol that should be hallucinations and impossible to happen,maybe indeed that in future there will be coming out new currency but for sure it will be internet connected still because the world will be manipulated by internet and we will be there for life

We are all believers here(though there are some stupid that pretending to be anti bitcoin but in the back of it,they are investing since prices drops when they create fund)so this is the big reason why bitcoin will gay forever because we will invest and will use this not just today but until the future

It's too racist if bitcoin won't be replaced, even in the future I believe that fiat will be replaced but I don't know when that happens, of course my whole life won't be enough, maybe when the world is already digital and people have vehicles that can fly. very sure of this.

As long as the development when it comes to faster transactions lower fees are on the right track there is nothing to worry, bitcoin was meant to be used by everyone even in the poorest countries with minimal network penetration and will be the bank for the people who are not having the privilege to have their own bank account, when i started out that was the goal and that was echoing in the entire community, now things have changed and until there is a better solution nothing is replacing bitcoin.

Com-on mate, whatever you called it, there will be no end to cryptocurrency and there will be no end to Bitcoin. Has there be any end to scam fiat?, no, so, there will be no end period. The governments will embrace the world of crypto even the mainstream manifestation blockchain (Bitcoin). Big companies has announced their coming into crypto-world so, bitcoin all the way to the end. 

I agree, I don’t think bitcoin will lose supporters, a lot who have been investing in bitcoin was able to experience the hump as well as when it reach rock bottom but still able to hold on as the market recovers so it is very impossible that no one will use it. For me, bitcoin is still the king of cryptocurrency.

Pwople bitcoin is treating as futhure money to replace fiat money worldwide in the near future.

For the meantime difficult to give conclusion when bitcoin ends because for me as bitcoin ethusiasm until the new technology exist bitcoin continues to improve including the whole digitak cryptocurrency.

Yes. Bitcoin will forever be the king of cryptocurrency unless people will stop using from it and its value will be back to zero. I really believe bitcoin will still live for long years but i'm also open that it won't live forever. It will really lose its value and that new crypto coin will replace its position in an indefinite time.

It's hard to say and I will just based on how fast our technology evolves so I'm thinking that if we will be much more advanced in the next 5 years so perhaps give or take 10 years for bitcoin. There's so many possible things that can happen and sometimes I even wonder if some devs will create something that is powerful than the blockchain.

Before bitcoin will be displaced or its technology replaced, this will take several hundreds of years, as the world is daily moving towards a technological world, bitcoin best fit into the system, I see a lot of development of the bitcoin ecosystem and great support for it usage. So it's going to dominant for ages to come.

Let's hope that will happen and bitcoin will continue to reign the space, we will also see a lot of projects coming some hypes from big company but we have to continue supporting bitcoin as it gives us real privacy, when we let these big investors rule the crypto world, we might be compel to comply with the KYC and that will defeat the purpose of decentralization.

Hopefully Global coin is not gonna be a threat.

Nothing will last forever including bitcoin, but I don't think it will happen immediately, bitcoin can still survive and have a future so I still think bitcoin is still a worthy investment.

Twisted question indeed. The underlying technology behind bitcoin is intriguing and as such generating interest on a daily basis. As a pioneer cryptocurrency, I don't see bitcoin becoming useless rather, I see bitcoin becoming adopted in no distant future.

Exactly.Bitcoin has still a bright future ahead and it will still be a mainstream in the next years so i never really think that all the struggles of bitcoin will easily just come to an end.I really think that bitcoin will still be adopted in the near future and once it will be supported by the government,i don't think it will be easily replaced then.

Honestly this Topic is useless as it has nothing good to offer. The advance Technology Blockchain through which Bitcoin/Cryptocurencies were originated from is gaining interest from different companies and countries as a result I see Bitcoin progressing and never to become useless one day. Many companies operates strictly on Blockchain with the help of Bitcoin the use of this King currency is immeasurable as it officially used for most of the online businesses to enhance fast transactions. Can you tell why you think or believed Bitcoin will soon be useless!!!?

You are practically giving bitcoin a useful life? As if it were a bubble, and that does not work like that, in fact you should study a bit more about the history of bitcoin, to review its structure very well. It also has 10 years of history, the bubbles usually in the Stock Market, last less, on the other hand in the Crypto market everything is faster and if it was a bubble many years ago it would have burst, but you have to pay attention to the operations there are 24 hours.

I don't think any other new coins replace the bitcoin, Now already bitcoin has spend a long time, not too much but still it is alive with a good reputation in crypto market, even during this long period most of the other coins come and try to break the top record of bitcoin, but these coins couldn't do it. Hence bitcoin will be live long life and no one will tell you how much time bitcoin has. So use it and get profit from bitcoin as long as it is alive.   

The world has been looking for the best ways to build trust and Cryptocurrency provides that best ways to build that trust. That is two people doing financial transactions without seeing each and both are secure without third parties involvement. I will say bitcoin is here to stay and it is going to be one of the greatest discovery for the next generation.

I don't think thsat I will see the end of bitcoin during my life.
Another question is if some other crypto currency will evetually replace bitcoin and become no.1?
If so, I hope I will not be late to join, like with bitcoin.

Wen 5G goes into widespread use. Then all people will be controlled, mentally, by "radio" control of the elites and their AI, and all money will be useless in the operation of trade... because everybody will be slaves. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5148057.msg51251963#msg51251963.

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