Though very unlikely in my opinion, $43 is definitely not impossible. But imagine the number of buyers there will be from bitcoin dropping to below $1000 alone. I'm pretty sure there's going to be A LOT, including me. Bitcoin at $43 isn't bitcoin being dead though, it's just bitcoin in a significantly lower price. The blockchain will still be up and running, so I'm pretty sure there's no death that's going to take place there; even if bitcoin drops to $0.01.
I agree with you, Bitcoin actually works better than ever before. With such low prices, fee for transactions will be near zero.
Blockchain technology is unstoppable, technologies on top of blockchain creates new technologies.
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