It is something strange. How could you tell that bitcoin is dying when whole world is buzzing about it? In my opinion we will see the rise of Bitcoin in the next year 2019 and it will take the place between local currencies.
Bitcoin is a virtual currency and its effective as people used it with ease but still hard to to replace the local currency because there are few countries recognize it, but I think crypto currency is still its developing stage and it will change the world's monetary system on the near future.