Bitcoin will continue to rise in popularity and price no longer at the expense of its name, but at the expense of technical capabilities and facilities provided by it. Therefore, if he does not technically improve, he is unlikely to retain his popularity.
As Satoshi Nakamoto said earlier, in twenty years there will be many transactions in bitcoin, or there will be no transactions. Therefore, either Bitcoin will be improved, or investors will switch to the use of more promising coins. Such a law of the market and no one can cancel it.

Banks will be forced to introduce blockchain technology, as they see its benefits and real benefits. This is primarily true for the obsolete SWIFT program, with which funds are transferred by banks and transferred to the use of such coins as ripple. However, they will not actively provide services in cryptocurrency. This will be as long as the states do not legalize cryptocurrency and banks do not receive clear instructions from the government about cryptocurrency. Only after that the widespread use of cryptocurrency by banks is possible.

Cryptocurrency, of course, changes our world, because it provides us with many new opportunities and makes the world much more convenient and better. States are now studying cryptocurrency and decide on the possibility of its legalization. If this happens, the cryptocurrency will enter our daily lives widely.

Everyone has the right to consider as they want. If some believe that the cryptocurrency is already dead, we will invest from their point of view in the dead cryptocurrency and continue to earn on it. Sometimes even dead, but the promising cryptocurrency brings more profit than the one they consider alive.
This is especially true of ethereum, which some are now trying to declare as scam and dead.

It is rather ridiculous and tragic that ICO teams, which themselves do not undergo any verification and often simply disappear with the collected funds of investors, also demand that they provide our confidential information. The paradox is that we are not their clients, because we do not invest in their projects. A client is one who pays his money and such clients are investors. The ICO team pays us for the services we provide to advertise their ICO projects, so they are our clients. Do our customers require us to pass a KYC check?

Given that the cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly popular, the governments and their central banks will be forced to create their own centralized cryptocurrencies. It is still difficult to say what fate awaits these coins and how far they will take root in our world. Most likely, they will supplement ordinary national money and will go mainly within the state itself. In any case, we need this experience. I do not think that these centralized coins will have a negative impact on the decentralized cryptocurrency. On the contrary, I expect from this a positive effect of greater interest of people throughout the cryptocurrency.

While we have no such chance. As long as there are many states in our world and each state will have its own, conflicting interests, there will still be hotbeds of tension between them, until then we will have no common world currency. A single world currency can only be when there is peace and tranquility on the planet. This is unlikely to be possible in the near future. In the meantime, each state will hold on to its national money.

This is still the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies seems stable. It is unlikely that this will continue for a long time. Especially now, in the last months of the year. I think the market will be moving soon. Cryptocurrency by its nature can not long stand still. Therefore, I would like to believe that this will be the rise of the market.

Yes, the blockchaine technology will directly influence the world economy and improve it, since for the first time humanity has the opportunity to organize and streamline trade and other economic processes on a global scale. Due to the fact that the blockchaine technology makes it possible to store and use large databases at a high level of security in the open access mode, for the first time it is possible to efficiently organize everything. The economic effect of this will be colossal.

It is foolish to even argue that a cryptocurrency can ever replace with itself the national money of states. This will never happen because national money, that is, a common currency, is tied to the economy of a particular state. Denominations on the sum of the denomination should correspond to the gross product of the country and its gold and foreign exchange reserves. Cryptocurrency can not have such a link to the economy of the state and therefore can not replace the national money of the state. There are laws of economic development and their cryptocurrency can not be canceled.

Interestingly, this topic was written back in January 2016, that is, almost three years ago. Even then, Bitcoin was periodically declared dead. It turns out that for so many years we have already been using the dead bitcoin. And while he lives and is not going to die. True, if for some time it will not scale and generally improve technically, then everything can be. The market makes no exception for anyone.

Although non-cash money is entering our life more and more, cash will still continue to go along with all other types of financial settlements. In life there will always be a place of cash national money that mankind has not yet invented. Cryptocurrency or other forms of cash settlement will run in parallel with each other.

Yes, the appearance of such implants was predicted for a long time. However, this will mean complete and total government control over each person. In general, this is not a good idea and it should meet fierce resistance from sensible people. Such a chip will also show where any person is in a particular part of the planet, which makes what everyone else says. Who wants to get rid of privacy and privacy rights with such a chip? I personally would not want to.

Of course, the ICO team must be responsible for fraudulent ICO projects, depending on the degree of their guilt. However, at present, cryptocurrency is not yet legalized in most states, and ICO projects do not have proper regulation and verification of the team for the possibility of fraud on their part. In addition, this crime is very difficult to uncover, since it can be committed simultaneously in different countries, and criminals can quickly migrate from state to state.

As we can see, the policy of simple retention of cryptocurrency this year is absolutely a failure. Virtually no profit this year she brought. Therefore, it is desirable, along with the retention of cryptocurrency, at least periodically, with obvious price spikes, to trade it. You also need to constantly monitor the emergence of new perspective coins and tokens and quickly switch to their use. The market will not always grow in value, and young and promising types of cryptocurrency will always grow.

Of course, any money of the states is at the same time an instrument of policy. That is why for a fake state money has always been a very harsh punishment, including the death penalty. Any national money, with the exception of maybe a dollar, is directly dependent on the state of the state's economy and who is able to influence the cash flow, he has real power.
Cryptocurrency has a slightly different nature. It has nothing to do with the economy of any state. However, it cannot be said that one who has a significant amount of a cryptocurrency in demand does not have the potential to acquire power.

Governments and banks can continue to exist without cryptocurrency, but it would be much better if they accepted and used a decentralized cryptocurrency. Most likely, it will be so, especially after a significant part of the states legalize it. Banks will then be cost-effective to provide services in cryptocurrency. True, to what extent, we'll see. But the government is unlikely to use cryptocurrency widely. It may allow its circulation within the country, however, it will not actively support it, since it is generally not interested in it.

No, the ICO projects will not die and the ICO bounty campaigns also. Now it’s just a very difficult time at ICO due to the fall and long stagnation of the cryptocurrency market. However, there are problems with the ICO, they also exist with regard to the ICO teams and headhunters. Indeed, in many cases, the ICO teams do not even notify the bounty hunters about their decisions, or simply for a very long time do not provide them with any important information even on the numerous requests of bounty hunters. It is necessary to regulate the activities of the ICO and establish clear rules with mutual rights and responsibilities of the ICO team and headhunters.

Not one Altcoin, including even Ethereum, can not outrun Bitcoin in value, as long as it maintains its high level of capitalization and therefore has the possibility of price domination over other types of cryptocurrency. Now coins and tokens will not be able to grow in price faster than Bitcoin does. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule.

In fact, only two months are left before the new year. During this time, important events should take place in the world of cryptocurrency. The question remains the same - whether the market will grow at the end of the year. If the market does not rise during this period, it will greatly disappoint both potential investors and cryptocurrency holders. After that, the bear market may drag on again for a long time. It would be much better if the market still grow, not even very significantly, but grow. Just this long period of stagnation is already tired, we are waiting for growth and new developments.