How does Bitcoin fail from here?

Avid Bitcoiner here. While I was fortunate to be orange pilled about 7 years ago, I try to remain critical in my thinking of how bitcoin grows and expands from here. Like most of you, over time, I strongly believe bitcoin will keep moving up and to the right. But at this present stage, what legitimate ways can bitcoin fail from here? From when I started researching Bitcoin (2017) until about 2021(ish), there were a TON of speculations as to why bitcoin would fail, but only really 3 (what I considered at the time) legitimate worries/threats I saw. Scalability - Now resolved via lightening network 51% attack with China's majority mining power - threat came true when they banned bitcoin, but made almost zero impact on bitcoin (something WILD that I don't we talk enough about) Energy consumption - LOL remember when "legit" publications said by 2020 bitcoin would consume 100% of the world's energy? Ahhh good times. *honorable mention - gov't crackdown, but I never really viewed as a legitimate threat. So I ask, bitcoin bulls, orange pilled, hodlers, are there any real threats to bitcoin anymore? What would lead it to fail at this stage? EDIT: Getting comments about societal collapses, apocalypse. If that's the case, we have far bigger issues and priorities. Assuming society and humanity stay in tact, what are the real threats? submitted by /u/Lion490 [link] [comments]

Mar 26, 2025 - 21:33

Avid Bitcoiner here. While I was fortunate to be orange pilled about 7 years ago, I try to remain critical in my thinking of how bitcoin grows and expands from here. Like most of you, over time, I strongly believe bitcoin will keep moving up and to the right.
But at this present stage, what legitimate ways can bitcoin fail from here?

From when I started researching Bitcoin (2017) until about 2021(ish), there were a TON of speculations as to why bitcoin would fail, but only really 3 (what I considered at the time) legitimate worries/threats I saw.

Scalability - Now resolved via lightening network
51% attack with China's majority mining power - threat came true when they banned bitcoin, but made almost zero impact on bitcoin (something WILD that I don't we talk enough about)
Energy consumption - LOL remember when "legit" publications said by 2020 bitcoin would consume 100% of the world's energy? Ahhh good times.

*honorable mention - gov't crackdown, but I never really viewed as a legitimate threat.

So I ask, bitcoin bulls, orange pilled, hodlers, are there any real threats to bitcoin anymore? What would lead it to fail at this stage?

EDIT: Getting comments about societal collapses, apocalypse. If that's the case, we have far bigger issues and priorities. Assuming society and humanity stay in tact, what are the real threats?

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