The 'its all or nothing' crowd needs to learn that there's different types of "all": You can have it "all" in 2 years or look like you've got shit for the next 10 years at which point it finally takes off. At this point, the people with the coins won't be willing to let them go for too cheap. Its been integrated in too many places, used for too many things, valued too high. This means that people will have to pay for it if they want it, even in a bad scenario. And this means Bitcoin has value, and this means that Bitcoin can be used as a currency, and as long as its used, people will see how much better it is than normal currency, causing it to be used more, until its price goes up again. The only conceivable scenario in which BTC won't succeed is if somebody like Google creates their own copy and it overtakes BTC.
Agreed. However, would not a more likely successor be in the Bitcoin 2.0 space rather than somebody like Google?
In any case I don't see Bitcoin disappearing but at worst having some of its thunder stolen.
agree google getting behind the devs on bitcoin 2.0 would accomplish the same from their corp viewpoint again shake things up
that also would work..the truth is if steve jobs still ran apple i'm not sure you woulda seen the bitcoin wallet apps taken off
not a lot of top corp types who would just play with an idea like this anymore...at least the large ones
this same senario would work well for a major bank or even a country to adopt....but it would be because of the
shock value..ie unexpected that a company would get stuff out of such a quest
but won't happen it will take all a corp can muster to just take bitcoin and they likely will always back coins that
have some kind of central control or hooks that benifits the corp in question..
the rumor is for exampel apple banned bitcoin apps because it is gonna push an Imoney concept thru the phones
they can control....
anyway was just a daydream
(dang it thou i'd like to run my sha-256 beast on something after may when difficulty gets to high
hope zerocoin the anon coin stays sha-256 could have a shot....)
Searing