"Innovative methods or technologies"

[boyptc]

But yeah I agree POS is sucks, it's actually a protocol that will kill Bitcoin's purpose, Bitcoin will never ever adopt POS.

POS will never be a good option for Bitcoin. Having it with a limited supply is already enough for its value and as for it becoming a POS then it's just going to give more vulnerability as it's will lessen the security of it so, more flaws to come.

I don't think the developers will find a solution to combat against high fees because with the high adoption and we want a secure network, high fees is inevitable.

Exactly.

Every time that there will be a proposal and after its implementation, another problem will occur and this is like an attached problem that we'll never see go because of the high demand.

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[Fivestar4everMVP]

What innovative methods or technologies do you foresee emerging within the Bitcoin ecosystem over the next decade to enhance both its scalability and environmental sustainability, while maintaining its core principles of decentralization and security?

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To be honest with you, I can't answer this question, and have never actually given this a thought, aside from the general perception that, in the future, bitcoin may likely have grown and established itself to an extent that it will be generally accepted globally as legal means of paying for goods and services, sending values accross and around the world, become a legal tender in several countries, and many other countries, if not all, dumping the US dollars and using bitcoin as their reserve currency.

Those are what I think and I believe many think same too, but unfortunately for many of this, it will or might take alot of time before bitcoin accomplishes all this and many of us present here today, if not all; may not be alive to witness when all this will happen, but right now though, we can always be happy and proud that Bitcoin was invented in our time and we are among the very first set of people to adopt bitcoin in this generation, it's a story alot of future generations will hear or read and marvel.

So, in the nutshell, I don't see much, aside bitcoin becoming much more stronger, price becoming higher and it gaining more stability, as well as acceptance in the future, which possibly will give birth to an entirely and completely new kind of payment system, something we have not actually seen now.

[titular]

In the coming decade, we're likely to see some cool new tricks and tech pop up in the Bitcoin world to make it faster, greener and more efficient all while keeping it decentralized and secure. Theres a talk of exploring different consensus mechanisms, like proof-of-stake, to cut down on energy use. And let's not forget about other tech like sharding and sidechains which could also help with scalability while being eco-friendly. It's an exciting time for Bitcoin and there's no shortage of smart minds working on ways to make it better for everyone

You are crazy if you believe that bitcoin will transition to a proof-of-stake mechanism. Proof-of-stake would undermine a lot of the fundamentals that bitcoin was built upon. PoW is often seen as more secure than PoS due to its reliance on computational power. In PoW, miners compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles to validate transactions and add blocks to the blockchain. This requires significant computational resources, making it expensive for malicious actors to attack the network.

PoW is also considered to be more decentralized compared to PoS. In PoW, anyone with the necessary hardware can participate in the mining process, whereas PoS typically requires participants to hold a certain amount of the cryptocurrency, potentially leading to centralization among those with the most coins.

[harapan]

What innovative methods or technologies do you foresee emerging within the Bitcoin ecosystem over the next decade to enhance both its scalability and environmental sustainability, while maintaining its core principles of decentralization and security?

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Not sure about it though, there are L2 solutions already in place. And as much as we like to see changes in Bitcoin, core developers will have to come up with consensus and it's not going to be easy.

For environmental sustainability, it's not Bitcoin per se, but those who produces mining hardware and what renewable sources this miners are going to used as this is one attacks that anti-Bitcoin is when they try to picture it as the one hurting the environment as it consumes a lot of energy for mining.

Some years back,a question like this came up,What is the purpose of bitcoin? And now this...
Bitcoin was created as a way for people to send money over the internet. The digital currency was intended to provide an alternative payment system that would operate free of central control.
 
To be honest,I can't really think of anything right now.Does bitcoin have another purposes or intentions to promote and boost the technological sector other than been a digital currency that aims to eliminate the need for central authorities such as banks or governments.

[franky1]

To be honest,I can't really think of anything right now.Does bitcoin have another purposes or intentions to promote and boost the technological sector other than been a digital currency that aims to eliminate the need for central authorities such as banks or governments.

bitcoin is a currency network.. and should stick to that
however, more broadly.. the blockchain technology can be used for multiple types of data that dont need to be currency based

just think about any IT service that require multiple access points but has one central server holding the data.. then imagine that data server is distributed on multiple continents so that no single IT manager/power outage or facility disruption can take down the data/edit the data.

things like international identity records for border control. instead of relying on one government ID records department, imagine an international ID network that all continents have access to so that the TSA at airports can share information on passports

things like births deaths and marriage certificates can be proven without relying on one country needing to speak to an embassy of another country

heck imagine a game avatar that you can take from one game and apply it to another game. taking your gamer stats with you because multiple games access the gamer network of ID/stats

even in private blockchains of a company. just not having one server but a server per car dealership, bank branch, amazon fulfilment allows data integrity of stocks/assets/product audits where one employee cant mess with the data and power outage at one location doesnt disrupt the network

blockchains purpose is  distributed ledgers of proof of data
by this i mean the most critical parts are not the raw data of a transaction, paragraph, record.. but the locked in merkle tree of leafs of hashes that identify and prove linkage to the raw data, and then the linkage of the chains of blocks time stamp that data based on which came first

so not al blockchains need to also supply all raw data of every record. they can have distributed nodes of just the blocks and the merkle leaf identifiers of data (without publicising the data itself)
thus just proving the individual locations that do have their own raw dataset can prove their data was registered at certain dates without having to tell everyone of the raw data itself, and only need to prove it to those directly involved in the raw data need

[Minor Miner]

In the coming decade, we're likely to see some cool new tricks and tech pop up in the Bitcoin world to make it faster, greener and more efficient all while keeping it decentralized and secure. Theres a talk of exploring different consensus mechanisms, like proof-of-stake, to cut down on energy use. And let's not forget about other tech like sharding and sidechains which could also help with scalability while being eco-friendly. It's an exciting time for Bitcoin and there's no shortage of smart minds working on ways to make it better for everyone

Proof of stake (POS), layer2, sidechain...? How can you call these technologies that will make bitcoin faster and better while still being decentralized and secure? I sincerely ask, do you know what the concept of POS is?

In terms of innovation to make bitcoin better, we don't have too many solutions so far. Besides applying LN to reduce transaction fees, expanding the blockchain or reducing energy use, we still don't have any technology that can solve it. We are all waiting and hoping that the developers will find some solution soon.

Lightning Network is Layer 2, so if you think POS, Layer 2 and Sidechain aren't decentralized and secure, you're actually saying Lightning Network isn't secure too.

But yeah I agree POS is sucks, it's actually a protocol that will kill Bitcoin's purpose, Bitcoin will never ever adopt POS. I don't think the developers will find a solution to combat against high fees because with the high adoption and we want a secure network, high fees is inevitable.

Yes, I think LN is insecure and that's why it's not popular until now even though it's been deployed for quite a while.

I agree with you, everything has pros and cons, and we cannot ask bitcoin to be so perfect that it doesn't have any disadvantages. If we want decentralization and maximum privacy, we need to make trade-offs, and high fees are the price we have to pay when using bitcoin. That's completely appropriate and nothing excessive. If someone wants cheap, fast and can accept less security then POS is an option.

[Volimack]

Bitcoin's new development will be achieved with innovative technology. Bitcoin is growing in popularity due to its decentralization many companies are incorporating bitcoin into their operations for which bitcoin transactions are becoming faster. With both environmental sustainability and climate change bitcoin is a good way and has made an incredible difference in people's lives. Bitcoin's new strategy has been greatly accelerated by the development of technology.

[Blitzboy]

First, expect layer-2 technologies like the Lightning Network to boost transaction throughput. Off-chain scaling will alleviate the main blockchain, enabling fast, cheap transactions. Second, expect consensus processes to improve, possibly toward energy-efficient Proof-of-Stake models. This would greatly reduce environmental problems. Zero-knowledge proof advances could improve privacy and increase verification efficiency.

These modifications will require new, well-crafted BIPs. Bitcoin's open-source nature fuels a global developer community. This collaborative atmosphere and rigorous development method will lead to robust, reliable, and transformational solutions. The next decade will be historic for Bitcoin.

[franky1]

I agree with you, everything has pros and cons, and we cannot ask bitcoin to be so perfect that it doesn't have any disadvantages. If we want decentralization and maximum privacy, we need to make trade-offs, and high fees are the price we have to pay when using bitcoin.

bitcoin does not require high fee's
its infact high fee's that pushes people away from using bitcoin and using other networks instead, thus abandoning btcoin..  that makes there be less bitcoin utility and less users securing the network because they dont use the bitcoin network often enough to want or need to sync their node... they end up using insecure lite-wallets on other networks and let hubs/central services maintain the off network value, so it doesnt help with decentralisation of bitcoin

if people want to cry about
paying $50 for a hard drive to store 2 decades of transactions is costly
but ok with
$50 for a single transaction on the bitcoin network.. or paying $50*2 to lock in and unlock on the bitcoin network every few months/year to then play debt/credit IOU unsettled balance games on another network,

they have their math backwards