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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What happens to Bitcoin in the long term?
by
wiss19
on 30/08/2020, 10:02:36 UTC
Question regarding the viability of bitcoin in the long term. From my understanding, the security of bitcoin comes from miners who verify the blockchain. What happens when there is so much halving that the reward for mining bitcoin is extremely low and the cost of verifying the blockchain for the miners exceeds the reward of their bitcoin?
It’s not just about the reward that they are getting from mining Bitcoin, when you make a transaction and you are charged a fee for the transaction you’re making, who do you think the money goes to? The fees you’re paying for your transactions goes to the miners, so they don’t just rely only the money they are getting as rewards for mining cryptocurrency.

I believe that if eventually they don’t have to mine Bitcoin any longer, they will start to rely on the fees that are being paid for transactions to make money. And moreover, if that’s going to happen, mining companies already knows what they are into and they must be aware of the things that are likely to happen in the future and prepare themselves for it.