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Bitcoin is becoming more and more popular and applicable everyday and there are plenty of companies and businesses accepting it as a common type of payment. However, when digital money is globally accepted, would there still be a need for cryptocurrency exchanges? Any thoughts on this?

Digital money is not a competition to Bitcoin which serves as an alternative asset and an investment.
Digital money is already wide spread around the globe at this time with lots of people using it, and those who don't, do not use Bitcoin either, so it's safe to say both have the same consumer base at this time.

I do not see the connection between spread of digital money and need for crypto exchanges. Bitcoin would thrive regardless and would need a platform for exchange.

How about the fiat we spend using credit cards and the ones we send using bank apps and through the web which are all digital transfers? This has been common many years ago.

Or you meant the CBDCs which are still new and more countries are planning to create their own. CBDBs are fiat and nothing more than being fiat.

Fiat and bitcoin are completely different, bitcoin is just an alternative and people adopted it more which makes its price to be increasing and now seen as a means of investment.

Crypto exchanges depend on cryptocurrencies, but bitcoin does not depend on exchanges. You do not have to use any exchange before purchasing bitcoin.

If people's volatility needs have been exhausted, then the continuity of the exchange will also be exhausted. I think the habit of people trading bitcoin will not stop using it for payments even though it will be adopted globally. They already love it and even bitcoin can become the most important investment asset in the future.

If few manage to remain in operation by then, the whole majority of bitcoiners would have advanced in learning how to remain private with having their asset away from centralized exchanges, people will now know the relevance of holding their keys which is the aceess point to their coins ay any given time, also as long as people realizes that altcoins need no financial investment to be made upon because of the risk whereby everyone is indeed investing on bitcoin, then the centralized exchanges begin o loose their hold and many begins to run down into closure since they can't afford to maintain a steady market as before with other cryptocurrencies they advertised, bitcoin would have been the only available options for them.

Digital money and cryptocurrency are different, people who's more interested with cryptocurrency will still need to use exchange since it's hard and not really safe to find a person or someone who willing to trade with me (peer to peer trading). I think when digital money or CBDC already officially launched, centralized exchange will list CBDC and that's still make people to use exchange. I don't see exchange will die, but centralized exchange will become bankrupt after got a critical hack.

First of all, CBDCs don't matter much in the equation, they are just another representation of fiat.

Now, sooner or later Bitcoin will most probably get accepted everywhere as payment. Of course, most businesses will still receive fiat, since that's how they pay taxes and for the merchandise. So a conversion will be done.
In the same way as now, if you pay in US with an EU card, VISA, MasterCard or your bank will automatically convert from EUR to USD. But if you don't want them do the conversion (because of the higher fees), you can go to an exchange office and get yourself USD for your trip.
This will happen with bitcoin too. If you want to do the conversion yourself, or you want to buy more bitcoin from your fiat salary, you'll use an exchange. A cryptocurrency exchange.

Then, in the same way people and businesses play on Forex, they do play and will continue playing on crypto exchanges.


So while I expect many of those will become huge businesses, offering also banking, loaning and many other things, some others may even merge with banks, crypto exchanges will remain, in a way or another, offering their services to everybody.

The Exchanges are not only for Crypto to Fiat conversions.... people also use it as a trading platform to trade in and out of Alt coins, so they will still exist in the future for that purpose.  ;)

I predict that more and more people will use it as a wallet too, because they are used to custodial services protecting their money. (Which is the last thing you should do, but people do not listen)  >:(

Absolutely!
First, for their main purpose you ills till needed exchanges to change fiat into coins, this will be on for a long long time, as nobody sees fiat getting replaced any time soon, not in a few decades' time at least.
Second, the main business of CEXs now it's no longer just people exchanging their coins for fiat or the other way around but constant trading just as fx markets.
So no, nothing is threatening CEXs anytime soon, they will most likely prosper for quite a while, especially since some have started using them as wallets, they offer debit cards linked to your account, interest accounts, and many other ways of making you lose money for their profits.

But now, thinking this over, you as an exchange owner are asking yourself this truly, or you're just doing this to promote yourself?  ;)

Digital money isn't going to fight crypto or anything, they'd still be used by whoever wants to use them. We're not seeing crypto die due to fiat, I hardly doubt a digital version of one would do much. We haven't even seen much adoption of crypto itself and exchanges are already prospering, so I reckon we're going to see exchanges last quite a long time before it dies out (if it ever will). Exchanges also serve as trading platforms for other coins, it's more like an investment hub now, a market for buying and selling.

You can simply look at digital fiat as credit card #1, and Bitcoin as credit card #2 really, they wouldn't really have that many conflicts, if any at all.

Cryptocurrency exchanges will continue to operate normally because they are the tool that governments utilize to control the flow of cryptocurrency assets. When Bitcoin becomes a widely-accepted medium of exchange, the need for flow control is going to increase even more. There will be two types of Bitcoin: a "clean" version and a "tainted" version. Please note, however, that given that bitcoin is as fungible as any other "hard" asset, any division is highly subjective and based only on the fact from which source a particular chunk of bitcoin has come. If it is coming from a regulated cryptocurrency exchange, it will be considered good even if it has had connections with criminal activity. However, if it comes from individuals who participate in anonymous peer-to-peer exchanges, it will automatically be deemed criminal money, even if there were no such connections.

Fiat currencies will never cease to exist, and so even if bitcoin or other crypto managed to sit beside, or even overtake, fiat in terms of usage, people will always have that need to switch in-between currencies especially if they needed one but can't use the other. This will only emphasize the need for crypto exchanges. Also, exchanges aren't only used to trade between fiat currencies and bitcoin, you can also use it to trade with other altcoins. That's another use-case for exchanges that I think will only help it stay even if bitcoin/crypto gains the upper hand against fiat.

I believe that there will undoubtedly be crypto currency exchanges in the world of the future. The question is, what will it look like? I suppose that most likely, some exchanges will cease to exist, while others will change. For example, Binance is already developing in many directions and includes various functions, providing different services to its users. This is already a kind of multi-platform. Perhaps the largest exchanges will become something like this and will expand their areas of activity. In any case, those exchanges that will not adapt to changes in the world and to the demand of their users will simply cease to exist.

Yes it will. Even though adoption is widely spared, exchange are still there to produce volatility and trading for different tokens and coins. This is their primarily used and I dont see it gone even a global massive adoption happened.

Also in addition, there are other projects thry wanted to claim or get hold of their asset which isnt on other exchange so the demand on using it still valid.

I think we will see the same as we see with banks here in the US, there will be a few huge exchanges, a lot of large exchanges, a very large amount of mid-sized and a ton of small exchanges that nobody cares about unless you use them.

The large banks handle large businesses, smaller ones for smaller people and so on down to your local bank / Credit union.
Not to say a mega corp can't open an account / use a smaller place but it really does not help either of them. The smaller places may not be able to handle what they need. Same goes the other way, MegaBank will let me open an account with them, but I will not get the personalized service I get from some small local place.

There will be more regulations as time goes on, but once again for the exchanges, adapt or die.

-Dave

Even if bitcoin can be used globally, of course it will still be needed in exchanges because people not only exchange from crypto to fiat but also some who do investment businesses such as trading and staking, both of which are options to increase income. There are also beginners who participate in bounty and airdrop work when the coins are listed on the exchange, of course they will sell them to fiat and withdraw them to the bank. This process has been going on for the last decade and it will continue.

Bitcoin has a long long way to go before it can become an everyday's thing. It are not anywhere close! Also digital money and bitcoin are two different things. They are not interconnected and structurally different. So let's not mix these two things.

I believe that cryptocurrency exchanges will be required to seamlessly integrate cryptocurrency with the fiat. If in future we see that bitcoin is accepted in 90% of the business establishments, then we probably would not need exchanges that much, but for now, it is one of the most important players in the crypto ecosystem.

As long as fiat remains the primary currency and the demand for fiat remains, even if crypto is globally accepted, exchanges will still operate. If crypto is widely accepted and used, it means that regulations will be enacted and exchanges will become even more necessary as governments will use it to control us. They will push the centralized exchange to develop further and even turn it into a crypto bank to control and track us again.

That's not the sole purpose of cryptocurrency exchanges, though. It's usually a way to convert and trade your coins as you go along. It's going to be a little weird that cryptocurrency exchanges cease to exist just because it is globally accepted. I don't think it will work that way. Unless everyone has easy ways to have P2P or trade easily, to non-tech savvy people, there would still be cryptocurrency exchanges. Probably be many more in the future.

I think there will still be a need to exchange cryptocurrencies for fiat currencies. While bitcoin will eventually stabilize, the market still has plenty of coins that can trade for profit.

But getting there still takes a lot of time, especially in countries that still don't allow crypto as a commodity that can be used to be traded freely in their country. And also, crypto still needs to wait until all countries can accept it as digital money that can function as a means of payment or investment.

Yes there's still demand coming on it and maybe they can increase their costumers when there's a global acceptance since most provably there are more people who use bitcoin at that time might try their best to trade and earn some money with this. Exchange is not only exchanging your coins to one another then use it for transaction since we can actually trade and earn multiple times if we are smart enough to take some actions on market volatility.

Exchanges will still exist because traders will also remain.
And for the reason that not all countries and their establishments are accepting Bitcoin, therefore, the use of exchanges is very important. Well, given the fact that the majority will use Bitcoin but never I see this will stop crypto exchanges. May some of them will stop, but those big and know exchanges, I was confident that they will continue in running this business as they know that many people are still in need of them.

I want to believe that Bitcoin is what you are referring to hare as digital money because if you are talking about digital fiat transactions, those are already widely used globally. However, I want to equally believe that Crypto exchanges will still be needed then because I don't believe every cryptocurrency will be adopted as bitcoin in terms of payments and we can witness that even now, so true that exchange will still exist for those Alts and maybe for other services too.

I have to say that exchanges that are giants like binance, coinbase, crypto.com and so forth will stay the way it is and nothing will happen to them in the future. The trouble is with the ones that are going crazy with just low volume coins and adding hundreds of them to make money. That's why I do not think that it would be something that would be a big deal for many people when those are gone because those low volume coins are bread and butter of some places.

There is a good chance that newly made projects which spend money to be listed in these low volume exchanges would be able to actually gone and then how would those new coins get listed? So it will definitely impact crypto a lot.

We can see the importance of exchanges in this market, as it is where people can exchange their crypto to whatever they need, fiat or another crypto.
Even if there will be worldwide acceptance of crypto, still, we do need these exchanges for so many reasons.
Right now, we are not only using the trading platform to exchange currency but also to avail other financial services like earning interest.
Crypto exchanges serve like a bank for most crypto users. This is where they can easily put their money and see how it will work upon availing various financial options.
As long as cryptocurrencies exist, I believe, crypto-exchanges will also continue to exist.

Bitcoin Exchanges were born because there was a demand for liquidity between Bitcoin and FIAT and back then the government and most of people thought Bitcoin was either a scam or virtual monopoly money to point and laugh at.

The private exchanges started because the governments refuse to provide decentralized assets with liquidity, because the concept of cryptocurrency goes against the centralized values they hold and have held for a long time.

If government ends up accepting Bitcoin and altcoins as medium of exchange and start to provide their own liquidity, then it would be a direct competition between the government and private entities, depending on the government this could lead to a take over of the local exchanges, a push to make private ones go out business or a failure of the government to compete.

In the end, if decentralized assets increase in adoption, governments would like to have the monopoly of the centralized liquidity, to try to control it even more.

Of course. There's still a need for exchanges even if bitcoin is massively adopted already. In fact, that's giving confidence to people if there are exchanges because they can convert it into any time they want to into fiat and the same goes for fiat into crypto.
Bitcoin is now considered a blue chip by many people and just as the typical stocks, the exchanges will be there and there's a need for them so that day to day trading can be sustained whether it is with P2P or not.

Well forex never stopped, eToro never stopped, and neither thousands of private trading companies who have their own trading platforms through their exchanger so I am pretty sure not will bitcoin exchange will ever stop.

I am pointing out to the traditional platforms because physical fiat left the assembly long long ago when world started trading the commodities or metals or fuels against digital fiat currencies and yet being digital we still need to print the fiat and keep circulation in and out.

That’s the answer for you too just in a way for crypto space. Why would crypto exchanges stop if everything becomes just “more” digital than what we have right now.

Here the thing is that we can't stop using fiat because not all the globe has internet, so, sites without internet access has fiat as their only option. And that's why fiat will never disappear. or at least it will take a long time for that to happen.

If people stop using fiat and only use cryptos, the exchanges will not disappear because people need to be able to do swap between their coins. I think that's the future of the exchanges until we find the way to swap coins direct in the blockchain.

Just curious why OP think this way. Why do you believe we don't need exchange if cryptocurrency is accepted globally? Exchanges help Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to become popular. The main theme of the exchange is trading cryptocurrency. It would be p2p or against LP. We always need Exchanges to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. How will a newbie buy Cryptocurrency if there is no exchange and how will you sell if you need cash? You can't exclude cash or fiat ever. Whether it's paper money or digital form.

There will always be the need for a cryptocurrency exchange now and after Bitcoin is accepted as global payment because the crypto trader will continue their trading route and there's to be high regulation of crypto and the only way I believe to escape this is through the use of no KYC exchange.
Crypto worldwide adoption and the crypto payment world are 2different things but in the end, serve as the same purpose.

Yes, it would be still relevant.Why? We know that exchangers are platforms which do really make you do able to trade up in between cryptocurrencies plus when it comes to fiat conversions then you would
still touch up these services where you cant really be able to do in other place.When it comes to recognition and adoption in merchants then it would be basically be touching up on direct transactions.
We know that there are people who do trade up their assets or coins into different ones which they could really play out with volatility which you cant really be able to done physically
or into those casual buying transactions.Its a different set-up and integration imho.

I have a strong feeling that cryptocurrency exchanges will be heavily regulated to the point that it will become too restrictive for the average person to use.

Back in 2017, our local exchange (coins.ph) was very lenient when it comes to cashing-out and withdrawing our BTCs. Even if the origin of our BTCs came from a gambling establishment, they will not question such and they will let you convert them easily to our desired local currency.

Unfortunately, as of 2022, our local exchange has become too restrictive- they kept on asking KYC documents in order to verify the origin of our funds. In addition, they can also lock your account or restrict your withdrawing limits if they found out that your BTCs came from a gambling establishment, which is prohibited under their new and amended TOS.

In all scenario the need for cryptocurrency exchanges will be there. Even when cryptocurrencies were the only source available, we've got a big list of cryptocurrencies. People have difference of view over different altcoins. Atleast for the conversion purpose there is need for exchanges. We can assume a world without fiat, but the same in reality won't happen soon or in the later.

Yes of course there will be a need for crypto exchanges in the future. There is a difference between people who are using crypto currencies for purchases, and people who use cryptos for investing. If you only use cryptos for purchasing goods online then you still need to get your hand on the cryptos in the first place if you have no crypto income. Same goes for the company that is being paid in cryptos, they will need to convert some of the crypto money back to their local fiat money to pay suppliers. Not all of the suppliers are also accepting cryptos, which means that the online shop is standing in between and needs to switch between multiple currencies. A crypto exchange is the best place for that, it's fast and cheap to exchange a large number of different coins. Without the exchange the trades could take a very long time as you always need to find a counterpart for your purchase or sale. 

The OP is just imagining what will happen to crypto exchanges in the future. Crypto exchanges will always be needed, because it is the same as when trading shares in the stock market. this is just a different platform only.

The name of the exchange will certainly change from crypto to fiat currency easily and faster. and investment will also build the foundation of the economy, as price fluctuations in crypto provide several profit opportunities.

The future of crypto will certainly experience extraordinary changes, of course, because modern society is currently migrating to the virtual world and crypto becomes a suitable means of payment for the virtual era.

exchange will remain exchange mate , this will be the sanctuary of every crypto holders and investors as those who are accepting crypto as payments ? most of them might keep thefunds on hold so the circulation will remain limited and that will exchange takes place.
but we don't know what will completely happened when banks accepts crypto in their system.

I do not believe that people will give up fiat money in the near future. Many countries still do not accept bitcoins and are wary of them . Accordingly, exchanges for cryptocurrency exchange and conversion to electronic money will always be relevant.

This is a handy tool that will always be relevant. Perhaps the regulators will interfere more and more in their work, but a certain number will remain and will fulfill all the requirements. It is also possible that in the future it will be impossible to use the services of the exchange without verification, based on this, everyone will decide for himself how suitable it is for him.

Exchanges will still exist, although more companies and businesses will accept crypto as digital money globally. And as long as people still want to profit from the price difference of the coins on the market, the exchange is still serving that demand because the exchange will also definitely benefit from every transaction. Maybe this will trigger more and more local exchanges in one country to make it easier for their citizens or foreigners who are there to exchange cryptocurrencies for fiat or even they can use crypto directly as a means of payment.

Both digital money and cryptocurrencies are having different real use cases. Crypto exchanges are very important nowadays in which we could convert our crypto to fiat and vice versa, especially when it comes to P2P trading.

They're here to stay for a very long time. Of course, most likely the world would transition to digital money. But regardless, crypto exchanges plays a vital role in keeping us going in crypto to fiat conversion (even digital money).

I'm a little confused, what does digital money have to do with cryptocurrency exchanges? Aren't crypto exchanges a market platform for buying and selling crypto and other activities? Just let digital money grow widely, now there have been also some digital money has started. As long as cryptocurrencies still exist, crypto exchanges will also exist. Because they are the bridge between the crypto world and the real world when cashing out money. And crypto exchanges also have many features where users can do trading activities, staking, and various other features that digital money platforms may not have.

With Bitcoin gaining popularity and different businesses around the world accepting it as a means of payment, cryptocurrency exchanges will still be needed to make the whole process more accessible and easier to use. That is because a lot of people are still new to making transactions using digital currency and even if in the future, when everybody would be using it, the process would still need exchanges for them to trade their bitcoins into fiat (digital) currencies. The reason why is because it will always be useful for businesses and individuals to convert between the local fiat currency and their preferred cryptocurrency.

Don't bother yourself to think about it OP but have to believe that exchanges remain important to us who live in the crypto world.
Just think about the vital role of this platform, then you'll gonna think that as long as crypto exists, this can be still here.

Despite the growing number of users all of these things remain - Buy, sell, or trade crypto
Not all are preferred for P2P transactions - so, therefore, having exchanges is still important to other crypto users.

Thanks all for your comments.
In this case which almost everyone thinks exchanges need to be there for the future, how about establishing one? What services do you think must be offered so customers would like to use the exchange?

Why there is no?
acceptance of crypto adoption as a means of payment will not be universal for all crypto assets. it will be more specific to certain assets like BTC, ETH, or USDT.
With a large market development, this will also trigger many new companies to develop projects. this has the potential to create a new crypto as we see it today.
to make it more valuable, of course, trading will be important to bring this market to life.
Trusted crypto exchanges will remain active to facilitate the community in crypto trading.

As the popularity of BTC increases with more and more people accepting it as a way of payments. I think there will always be some other cryptocurrency too. Being built on other blockchain and having a different purpose, i think you will need a source to be able to convert them and use them as BTC.
All though i am not sure what to come next in the future, but pretty sure it will take a long time for the exchanges to disappear.

For one thing that everyone wants it the security for their assets. If you can provide that then many will show positive vibe to join it. And one more important thing is that it has to be decentralized. Not your key, not your assets.

Low gas fee.
Best value.
and there are many other factor to keep an eye on. So do your research and you are good to go.

My advice is that find the problem from your own experience and try to fix them while you create one. Or try to improve what is already there.

of course you will need exchanges, how are people going to day trade? day trading is a way to make money for many people, in addition to being good for the market, if there were no exchanges it would be difficult to price cryptocurrencies. exchanges are something that will be needed every day and even if years pass people will need exchanges, for example there are cases where people will need to buy bitcoin using bank accounts, so the person has to have an exchange account to buy bitcoin

The demand for more cryptocurrency exchanges will increase once bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are widely accepted worldwide because the current ones will be inefficient and might cause traffic jams. This can be compared to fiat currencies, which are extensively utilized throughout the world; more banks have been established since fiat money first began to be used for transactions. It is almost unimaginable to even consider the idea that cryptocurrency exchanges won't exist if bitcoin is widely used worldwide.

The answer to your question is very obvious and simple. As long as it has to do with cryptocurrency, there will always be exchange. Just as the name implies, 'exchange' - sometimes, you might want to convert from one cryptocurrency to another. How can you achieve this without an exchange?

Regardless of whether digital currencies now been globally accepted, there is still need for an exchange.

Exchanges may still exists in the future but a very few numbers of them just as some cryptocurrencies would have also cease from being existing later on, what one thing needed to be clarified here, are we talking about the centralized exchanges or the decentralized ones or both as a whole, exchanges need to survive as well but majorly on altcoins and they have the in-depth of how they trade to add up their own transaction interest along on users in form of fees.

Correct.
As long there's demand and as long there's people would be using it then it would be safe to say that they would be still existing on the future.These companies or platforms
would really not stop on making or offering services which would be provided into the community which it would be having relevance or giving out that convenience on where
the public do much prefer.

Even digital currencies do exist on the future but still not wont really be able to give out those services on where exchanges could able to do so.
This is why their existence would be still relevant.

What do you mean by digital money? Is that some kind of CBDC that the government is planning?

I think that's what you probably mean by digital money. Basically anything that can be traded for profit then the market is needed. Even if it were a CBDC, I think local exchanges would adopt it as a trading pair for other crypto assets including bitcoin. Crypto exchanges are always needed and probably won't be bothered by the existence of a crypto-based government digital currency either.

There is always a need for cryptocurrency exchanges.  Crypto creation will continue and crypto exchanges is the best place for new cryptocurrency project to market their coins.  Aside from that, we all know that currency/digital is globally accepted and yet there is this FOREX and its thriving.  Why?  Because there is a need for marketplace where people can buy and sell different currency, and profit from price volatility.



I do not think there will be only a few cryptocurrency in the future.  It is impossible because the creation of new cryptocurrency won't cease to exist.

Crypto exchanges are for crypto coins/tokens, they are not for digital money.
Crypto exchanges have big roles in crypto world, people trade their coins or tokens there. Without exchanges, people will be difficult to trade their coins/tokens, so people will always need exchanges. So, no doubt that the exchanges will survive for a long time.

Cryptocurrency exchanges will continue to exist even if bitcoin is globally accepted.  In order to exchange crypto to another crypto, we need exchanges. However, i hope the decentralized exchanges become more popular and give all the features that centralized exchanges possess.

The only thing which may close is the fiat currency banks. The paper notes and the banks which store them and deal with fiat money will not exist anymore.

Of course there is, crypto always has its own way,
such as many who invest and as a means of payment,
both have similarities and differences,

because both can be used as a means of payment,

and digital money can be used directly to top up the crypto market,

so they both need and are always side by side.

I think paper money will still exist,
although someday it will be eliminated, but it will take quite a while.

plus people who don't agree with cryptocurrencies, it will be a big obstacle for crypto.

my thoughts will be crazy crypto exchange will be everywhere maybe there is 1 or 2 in one country and then when the government created CBDC maybe will be a lot more. and of course the decentralized exchange will be more complex then now. and crypto become part of everyday life since altcoin that have been developed be more complex as well

You have a point since there are still people who want to exchange their coin for their fiat, but what I first understood was what if it is globally accepted, meaning all stores accept all types of coins, you can transact and pay using crypto and send money to, but still crypto is not our main currency it is still our paper money, so we still might need to exchange this in the future but can you imagine the future ahead of us like the possibility now is higher than five years ago in cryptocurrencies because stores are now accepting bitcoins as payments and countries they are getting legalize the bitcoins and as its legal tenders.

Tell me is it bitcoin the only coin that exist right now? Obviously not as we have more than 13k coins in the market at this moment, and it is very likely this number is going to keep growing during the next year.

And if that is the case even if we were to assume a future where bitcoin was accepted everywhere people will still want to trade back and forth between bitcoin and altcoins, then even in that future we will still need to have exchanges to facilitate this process.

In addition to using exchanges to convert between fiat and cryptocurrency, exchanges also provide a lot of other services such as staking, trading, listing new projects...In the absence of an exchange, where would traders be able to make a profit?

Although we do not recommend storing your assets on exchanges, nowadays there are many people who take advantage of exchanges to make profits through the staking service that exchanges are providing. In general, exchanges have a lot of benefits that we need, not only to exchange fiat and crypto with each other.

when Crypto exchanges can be used everywhere, it doesn't mean that Fiat currency exchanges will disappear, of course it will run concurrently. Crypto exchange is only to facilitate transactions.
and for now, of course, Bitcoin is still the gain even though there are some Altcoins that have good potential to become exchanges but they still haven't beaten Bitcoin.

because Crypto is global which does not distinguish between countries which makes it very profitable for many users to be able to exchange it for any currency and in any country and that is a big function and advantage if in the future Crypto exchange occurs.

If indeed you mean CBDC, then an exchange will also be needed, but what needs to be understood is that fiat currency is not a competitor to bitcoin, which is used for investment and alternative assets. For me there is no correlation between fiat currency and especially crypto exchanges, because nowadays many people use fiat currency, while exchanges still not as much as fiat currency users. Although currently developments have shown a positive trend towards crypto and Bitcoin in particular

People tend to use centralized crypto exchanges only for one reason:  convenience.

Its easier to use a platform where you can exchange your fiat for crypto and then hold that crypto on their third party wallet, even though everyone here would recommend you never do that. And its easier to trade your crypto for other crypto on said third party platform.

Its just the way people are. Lazy.

You could easily do the same but in more complicated ways like via P2P and decentralized exchanges. But again, laziness or ignorance wins out in newbies.

I think we already have plenty of crypto exchanges, and they have trading pairs with stablecoins and often with fiat as well. In fact, I believe we have more crypto exchanges than the current level of adoption of Bitcoin as payment calls for. However, exchanges are very convenient not only for trading but for switching from one coin to another, so exchanges are needed, and I think the demand for them will remain. If the op is referring to CBDCs by 'digital money', then it should be said that they aren't a big thing yet, and that when they become a big thing, I see no reason for them not to be on exchanges.

Why not let's consider it this way, the more they keep introducing new cryptocurrencies the more the old ones were been dumped and with time people will definitely know to understand the difference between altcoins and bitcoin, exchanges could have been in lost through this when customers no longer confide trust in the coins they promote, we have some exchanges as well that were no where to be found today but what i will advise is for all bitcoiners to learn to be decentralized, centralized exchanges are note a joke when it comes to being hacked, data leakage, or running down completely.

Of course there will be need for platforms to exchange digital money and crypto, assuming you mean platform to exchange currencies with people rather than the typical "trading" platforms.
I expect Decentralized/p2p platforms to be the desired means to exchange decentralized currencies like Bitcoin. It keeps the currencies from getting centralized and losing the purpose they were invented .
It's important to build decentralized platforms that are fast, feature-rich (with feature like escrow) and convenient as centralized versions to make this a possibility.

So are you saying Altcoin like BNB, ETH, Polygon, Solana, and other established cryptocurrency will cease to exist?  I don't think so.  Its been more than a decade and yet exchanges even though centralized gathers more people than p2p, since the main issue with p2p is trust between two people.  Even though centralized exchanges are hacked, or have data leaked, people prefer to trade in centralized exchanges than do p2por trust unknown people.  Remember in p2p, someone needs to release first unless there is an escrow in between which defeats the purpose of p2p.

Crypto exchanges will continue to exist and flourish as worldwide adoption of cryptocurrency happens.

Now there are more than 21,000 different cryptocurrencies in the cryptocurrency market. But this does not mean at all that even half of them work in this market. Actually working, probably no more than 20 percent. Cryptocurrency continues to develop and the most worthy and useful ones will remain on the market. This process will continue for a long time.
As for crypto-exchanges, not only will they not disappear, but on the contrary, they will grow both quantitatively and qualitatively. If the cryptocurrency market develops, then crypto exchanges will also develop.

Then why doesn't the government want to legalize bitcoin as a legal tender if you don't think fiat will compete with bitcoin in its use case?

Bitcoin has attracted lot of people's attention for the convenience and innovation it brings as means of payment. I think bitcoin is good to payment alternative which is currently still dominated by fiat, but the better the development, the more users are willing to use it as means of payment.

What bullshit are you talking about, do crypto exchanges nowadays support fiat less often than just crypto? Centralized crypto exchanges especially locally based will support fiat to make it easier for users to make deposits to exchanges, this is what most local exchanges do. Despite all that, crypto exchanges will still exist and will also continue to grow over time. The government at all costs will only centralize it for its own benefit, so say something true.

We dont need lots of exchanges yet the current ones existing are sufficient enough to give out that service and utility which we could make use which it is really understandable that these platforms would go play along

with government rules and this is via regulation which isnt really surprising.Its true that we've been flooded out by lots of crypto projects in the market but only a few of them do able to make it through on getting
recognition.Speaking about digital currency then it would be standard and they would both co-exist.

It just turns out that we are aware that there are different usage into those things which are intended for everyday living transactions compared into those coins which are holding of investment purposes.

The amount of exchanges is a lot, but there are only a few that is used a lot, the rest are not really used as much and combined do not make up for the top 3. This means that there are just a few big ones, and if we look at how they could do in the future, we could literally see them bought out by a bigger company as a whole, and then they would be able to continue profiting for that bigger company instead.

Look at how banks are approaching these exchanges, if banks are ever allowed to be crypto exchanges with regulations, they could just straight up get together and buy out binance and that would be very bad because banks are the reason why I ran away from fiat.

I consider myself to be a capitalism absolutist within the context of currencies, whether it be fiat or crypto -- I think exchanges have their place. It's my hope that people don't rely on them or need them, but I'm not an advocate of forcing other crypto currencies to cease operations through anything other than consumer choice and market forces. So unless some governmental agency comes in and stops them (I don't see fiat phasing out entirely any time soon either) it's entirely probable that exchanges will exist and continue to operate as they have been.

With how the fees are, one could anticipate more P2P currency exchanges rather than going through an intermediary once crypto becomes more popular than it already is. That might reduce people's dependency on them.

We have a lot of fiat exchanges in every corner of every city, somehow this doesn't put anyone out of business. The same could be supposed in the case of cryptocurrency. Multiple exchanges just means more choices to choose from, and competition brewing from each of these exchanges trying to one-up the other could just be beneficial to its customers as they could find new ways to make it to the top. Also, digital money is way different from crypto, both will have their proprietary exchanges in the future I presume. crypto has their dexes now, digital money could have its own in the future.

Because they are too afraid of bitcoin developing and cannot be controlled like fiat, but for me bitcoin is not a competitor to fiat, because bitcoin was not created to replace it, bitcoin is an alternative to fiat and the two are clearly different.
Yes, it is true, but not many countries are adopting bitcoin as a means of payment, although it is true that fiat's dominance will diminish as bitcoin grows.

It seems you misunderstood, I mean the case of fiat and crypto users around the world, isn't fiat money much bigger users now and I never said crypto doesn't support fiat.
I also found out for myself that local exchanges continue to support fiat in terms of deposits and withdrawals, in this case I agree there is a correlation, but in terms of the number of fiat users it is still dominant at this time

Of course yes, because how can we obtain crypto? Although yes you can obtain it in so many ways without using an exchange like doing faucets, working, mining, p2p, etc but they are hassle and risky. Not only for obtaining a crypto but we can also use the exchange whenever we want to exchange our coins for another type of coin/crypto or convert it to our local fiat currency.

Many exchanges now have a support for that. In conclusion, many people are still going to prefer this because crypto may not be a legal tender on their country or they simply don't want to use their crypto like a currency but they treat it like an asset to earn more money.

Even with the little ones present, alot of members find it difficult to confide trust in using centralized exchanges, they are not reliable at any cost, this does not change anything from whom they were and no matter the said and done about them, people will not still change their minds and determination towards them.


Only exchanges of thier kinds and bounty hunter newbies will seek for their services, no one on a normal ground will want anything associated with centralized exchanges if he truly understand what's at stake in using them


They may both exist but after which everyone has lost interest in them and by that time, the few newbies fill be their preys who don't know what to do next.

Cryptocurrencies are still in their early days and there is no telling what the future holds for them. Some believe that they will eventually become mainstream, while others think they will simply disappear. It's hard to say exactly what will happen to crypto exchanges in the future, but we can make some educated guesses.Some believe that exchanges will become more regulated, which could mean feweroptions for users. Others think that exchanges will simply merge with each other, becoming larger and more powerful.It's hard to know for sure, but one thing is for certain: The future of crypto exchanges is still up in the air.

There is no logic that when digital money is introduced worldwide, Bitcoin or cryptocurrency usage will stop and no one can say that cryptocurrency usage will decrease or stop when digital money is introduced.  So since the use of cryptocurrencies will be future days, I don't think cryptocurrency exchanges will be shut down in the future when digital money becomes popular. And since everyone trades through cryptocurrency exchanges and many use trading as a source of income, so , the use of exchanges will always remain.

If you are talking about centralized exchanges as Binance, coinbase, and all these top centralized exchanges then bro these exchanges are going to play an important role on the regulation of the crypto market. Still, after this halving, I am expecting a major crisis as MT GOX in history 2013 on that crisis these exchanges are going to be dead remember Binance is going to be the future reason for major crash after the coming Bull run. That crash will be one the major crash ever in history after 2012. So my dear friends the trend is going to change DEXs are going to replace CEXs. But these exchanges are important to for adoption on the local level after that these is no place for the word centralized haha.

It's just your opinion, you see there have been many centralized exchanges that have collapsed like Mt.gox but then what, there will be bigger exchanges and always will be. Binance is also likely to collapse but there will certainly be a larger exchange to replace it. Although, CEX is centralized but undeniably its important role in connecting people to the market, a popular market like today also has a huge contribution of CEX.
I disagree with storing too many assets on CEX because of the risk it brings but CEX is necessary for the market with the many services it provides.

I think exchanges will always exist and will always be used, even though there will be digital money in the future, because exchanges are a safe place for transactions compared to p2p, although later there will be regulations for registered exchanges,

The situation lies in the development of the times and is adapted to modern technology, lately I have seen several countries continue to develop along with the times, For this reason, several media mention that with the current situation digital methods are already running and used by many general public, ranging from digital exchanges, digital TV, digital money, digital banks, digital data storage and many others that are currently being prepared by many countries live with technology with digital methods.

Point, my understanding and what I see is whether it's a developed country or a developing country, they already understand how Bitcoin actually works, meaning that Bitcoin is well accepted by the government and society, in this case it can be said that crypto-based exchanges in the future will experience growth and increase, it can be proven from another perspective.
Example:
My country five years ago there were only 1-2 Crypto exchanges operating and recognized by the government, but currently, if i'm not mistaken already have -+15 crypto exchanges operating in my country and this continues to grow as time goes by and technological developments develop in this world.
Conclusion: crypto exchanges will continue to grow and proliferate in the future, considering that many countries are implementing all-digital methods.

Digital money? You mean crypto currencies? Or those Central Bank Digital Currencies? If CBDC does become mainstream, it still won't replace crypto currencies. People will still prefer decentralized currencies over government controlled centralized currencies. All CBDC's are likely going to be stable coin, so investors will still invest in crypto currencies to make profits. And if you are talking about crypto currencies, then I see no reason why crypto exchanges can't exist. People will still want to exchange from one currency to another or trade to make profit. They will still need exchanges to do those.

What is certain is that crypto exchanges for the future are getting easier and more platforms are accepting crypto currency exchanges, especially bitcoin, because according to predictions the price of bitcoin in 2030 will soar again, because bitcoin is now very popular and there are even countries that accept bitcoin as currency. legal,so I personally think crypto exchanges in the future will become easier,Although crypto can not be a legal tender in all countries but cryptocurrencies will become an investment tool that leads in market capitalization as well as a creator of investor awareness.

Yes, bro exactly I am trying to explain the same point here, Binance is going to be replaced by some other Decentralized exchange in the future and the next bear is going to be established by Binance due to collapse. secondly, I do agree with the point CEXs play important role in the crypto market at least for today.
The concept of centralized vs decentralized (https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/1691050897616459692/8872047818470135639) matters a lot these days at least the future is not concerned with centralization. Our elders believe in centralization not on every point but on major financial factors centralization was supported but wee are spending our age in the new concept adoption and our next generation is going to be the decentralized.

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Where do you get such an assumption about 2030? You are looking too far into the future, no one can know what will happen to us then and what will happen to the price of bitcoin, but of course we can assume that it will cost more. Exchanges will be both centralized and decentralized, since there is a demand for both and it is likely that they will continue to be so.

Bitcoin become more and more popular but still it isn't widely accepted as payment mode due to the restrictions of government and anyway in future let's assume governments made bitcoin as legal tender still cryptocurrency exchange has the business which is converting one crypto to other crypto and make money out of it but this may take few decades to happen so until that anything may change even in the cryptocurrency market.

I always thought Bitcoin would move towards a ton of small exchanges run by lots of different types of businesses. It seems like instead there has been a lot of consolidation in the industry and large players emerging. This isn’t ideal, but hopefully at some point we see more distributed exchanges (DEX) as they are the on-ramps to crypto and probably most at risk for being shut down and hindering the market.

The reason for crypto exchange for conversion of one crypto to another or into fiat. Therefore,  no matter how popular Bitcoin is in the future there will always be the need for crypto exchange for enthusiast.

There are a lot of DEX in the market already but the problem is always that some of them exit the market and run away with their user fund or they later change to CEX.

Bitcoin is still the future, many company will still be accepting bitcoin as an exchange. The world is going digital and everything will need stability. Bitcoin is a digital currency that can be use as an exchange.

As long as fiat exists, there will be banks serving the purpose of exchanging fiat and also sage keeping fiat's.
Also as long as cryptocurrencies exist, there will be exchanges for exchanging coins and safe keeping it.

Even the emergence of the CBDCs which is scary, we also need to know that they will run on blockchain. The worse scenario you can do is to create your own blockchain and centralize it, but you cannot hijack the whole cryptographic technology.

You are overly optimistic, crypto exchanges are not gaining popularity that fast.

You are talking from a point if Bitcoin becomes globally accepted and becomes the one and only cryptocurrency. Indeed, there will be no use of cryptocurrency exchanges. But you really think that all other blockchains and projects will disappear or be substituted by Bitcoin? Simple math - current market cap is +1 trillion; Bitcoin 400 billions; do you think the rest can disappear or be transformed into Bitcoin? I think people will always need crypto exchanges, people will always have what to exchange, thus they will always be demanded.

Nothing bad will happen to cryptocurrency exchange in the future, instead there will be more exchanges and more adoption of cryptocurrency through exchanges.
What may happen on a major note is that the privacy of Bitcoin and some special features of Bitcoin may be downgraded by exchanges or lost totaly. Privacy might be lost and government could tend to control the Bitcoin through exchanges that they will regulate and manipulate, that is the only bad side of the exchanges that I am seeing in the nearest future

Guys,
FTX announced bankruptcy!
Now, you still think crypto exchanges are going to remain in the future? Even if the bear market continues...?

you can now transfer btc without using any exchange it can be transfer wallet to wallet exchange is mostly use in purchasing altcoins so still it is needed, new project and new altcoins are now everywhere we can see different types of coins they are useful as the world becoming more modern and most of the different transactions are using internet, gaming, purchasing online using different apps that accept crypto, etc., So i think crypto exchange will multiply, i am sure that as long as there is crypto, crypto exchange will always remain and multiply.