What will Bitcoin be in 20 years from now?

[Smartvirus]

In 20years from now, Satoshi Nakamoto is going to come out of the blue, damn it with all the anonymity, damn it with all the sitting on the sidelines and let others claim to be the founder, trying to take credit for what the founder has long archived. The founder would be out again to take royalties from persons using and to have invested Bitcoin, play the tyrant where you’ve got no other choice than to pay or loose everything and the government would be with the founder on this for their own cut… should i continue because, a lot would happen with Bitcoin come 20years from today…

[DeeppRockk]

In 20years from now, Satoshi Nakamoto is going to come out of the blue, damn it with all the anonymity, damn it with all the sitting on the sidelines and let others claim to be the founder, trying to take credit for what the founder has long archived. The founder would be out again to take royalties from persons using and to have invested Bitcoin, play the tyrant where youve got no other choice than to pay or loose everything and the government would be with the founder on this for their own cut should i continue because, a lot would happen with Bitcoin come 20years from today

Smartvirus, you bring up an interesting angle, but I'm not holding my breath for Satoshi to reappear. The game theory of Bitcoin relies on its founder staying anonymous-any return would risk undermining the trustless design. Royalties?

That's antithetical to the protocol's ethos.

As for 20 years out, I'm more focused on adoption milestones than price targets. Institutional custody solutions are already paving the way for broader acceptance, and countries with unstable currencies will likely accelerate this trend.

[dezoel]

Predicting what’s going to happen to bitcoin in the next 20 years doesn’t really sound well to me. I will say 20 years is just so much, and nobody even knows what’s going to happen to bitcoin before the 20 years. Nobody can predict the price which bitcoin will be because 20 years is just too much, if we are making speculations, then it shouldn’t be so far like that.

Nobody knows what’s going to happen to bitcoin in the next 24 hours not to talk of 20 years which the OP mentioned. We all are expecting something good from bitcoin, and I know bitcoin price is going to be massive by then, and the adoption will be massive also, but I don’t know the price that bitcoin will be at that particular period of time.

It's not "that" hard to predict. Unless something bad happens where we lose it all, then it's clear that we are going to end up with a higher price. There isn't an option that it's around the same price or even lower, those are the only realistic options. Either it will go to zero because something bad happened, or if nothing bad happened like hacking or quantum computing or AI destroying bitcoin, then it means we are going to end up with a higher price in bitcoin and investing now would be smart move.

There are enough active devs to switch over to algorithm when technically something needed. Only government's regulation may threaten bitcoin but being decentralized, bitcoin was designed to survive without support from anyone i.e corporates or governments.