Where Do You Want To See Bitcoins In 5 Years Time?

[Ciber]

Hopefully, in a time of no more banks, I want to see the ability to pay bills (phone, power, water, internet) in bitcoins.
Not to mention, order any food I want in bitcoins, use bitcoins to have additions to my house.
Bitcoins to feed my dog...

Well.. I want bitcoins to be used with everything.

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[whydifficult]

It has some great possibilities for spending money online shops (on a consumer level). It's also a pretty robust system to shift big $$$ through different currencies worldwide extremely cheap. However we'll have to found if governments will accept a currency that can't be easily controlled, understood and taxed.

Bitcoin has the potential to change the way we think about money.

[kingrob]

i would like to see bitcoins as a stable way to pay for goods

[nomoreh1b]

Bitcoin was designed to be something close to gold in some key ways. I'd like to see major gold holding entitities step in and peg bitcoin to gold at some fixed rate-and see a variety of alternative e-currencies established-including some that are more clearly private than bitcoin-but that retain the decentralized control bitcoin has. Bitcoin may evolve into providing the infrastructure for that(via stuff like colored coins)-but I can imagine even different stuff comes up.

[FractalEyes]

Stable at around 400 USD, with long term growth
Highly efficient exchanges
Very secure wallets and transactions
Accepted widely online
Greater ease of use implemented

[BitcoinPimp]

I would like to see this within 5 years of bitcoin:

- Receive all my bills in the mail-box with a QR code so i can flip out my phone, scan and pay them in a flash with my bitcoin-wallet without logging onto a Stone-Age looking web-bank account which by the way, is constantly attempted to be phished by scammers with fake emails all day long. Bitcoin = Problem solved.

- Walk into my grocery, pick up my food, scan a QR code at the exit, and off i go, soon to have a happy, stuffed stomac

- When I park my car, I should just walk up to a parking-ticket box, type in how long I should be parked, scan the QR code then receive a ticket i put in my car.

- Pay for everything on internet with bitcoin. I hope within 5 years, bitcoin completely killed paypal dead. Bye bye frustrations of paypal.

- Order plane-tickets using bitcoin. Both through web-sites and directly on the airport. And regardless what country I choose to go to, when I arrive, i should be able to purchase and pay for anything I want in that country using the awesomeness of "Flip out phone, scan QR code, click, finished!" - and off i go, happy as a clam.

[nejon]

I'd like to see a Bitcoin credit card and more merchants accepting Bitcoins

[keo]

I'd really love to see:

- a true Bitcoin backed debit card run by a solid company or bank
- NYSE grade exchanges
- Full set of currency services for Bitcoin based exchanges (stocks, options, futures, warrants, etc.)
- BTC being a ticker at the global Forex market
- 1 million merchants accepting BTC
- stabilized cross-currency prices
- more liquidity, market makers
- grandma could use it on her phone
- no terrabyte blockchain

[xcrowd]

- We will probably see Bitcoin flourish in the developing countries but mainly in Africa due to lack of trust in the regular monetary policies there prescribed by the IMF, World Bank.

- Can't predict the price but it will most likely pass the $1,000 mark as it would either die off within a couple of years or the mainstream will catch on before 2016 depending on the ease of transactions (currently it's a hassle).

- It would be amazing to see Bitcoin take on at least 1% of global daily electronic transactions.

[ukuna]

bitcoin will become a hit!!!

[fontas]

I project BTC to be surpassed by a superior coin in 2014-2015.

In the meanwhile, I will pumpndump alt coins.

[ukuna]

i think everything will become cheaper in the future

[M8R]

valued at $1000 per coin

[dreamhouse]

I think it depends on the governments. If US government declares bit coin illegal, then it's probably will become useless.

[MoneyCoin]

Better exchanges, more merchants, although  I can see it getting tied up with paypal for example, already in the talks, but its just a middleman for bitcoin, not what we want. Bigger countries will start adopting the concept of cryptocurrency further pushing the price up.  We can only hope most of us got in it early enough...

[wayfarer]

Well this is a fun thread to read through 9 mos. later.  All you hoping for $1000 within 5 years...  $945 today, down from ath of 1200 I think, and it's broken $1000 twice now. 

[Pixieblonde]

The sky is the limit! 

[bitemycoins]

- We will probably see Bitcoin flourish in the developing countries but mainly in Africa due to lack of trust in the regular monetary policies there prescribed by the IMF, World Bank.

- Can't predict the price but it will most likely pass the $1,000 mark as it would either die off within a couple of years or the mainstream will catch on before 2016 depending on the ease of transactions (currently it's a hassle).

- It would be amazing to see Bitcoin take on at least 1% of global daily electronic transactions.

I have to agree that there really is a lot of under served economies out there. It is important for Bitcoin to succeed to help these developing countries progress and be able to compete globally.

[Hashcesar84]

I wanna see bitcoins to the MOOOON!

[marycarroll]

I would like to see bitcoin not controlled by one source but, in some way there also needs to be regulations so that people are not ripped off.  I know there are problems with paypay, I can attest to that as I have personally been ripped off trying to sell through them.  In any business there are those that become greedy and try to take advantage of honest people.  But I also believe that dishonesty catches up with the dishonest.