What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years? 13 Predictions with Confidence Meter

in #cryptocurrency7 years ago

"Prediction is a tricky business. It’s so easy to be wrong and so hard to be right.

But that’s exactly what we’ll do here. Since we’re rapidly approaching the ten year anniversary of Bitcoin’s whitepaper publication, I’ll attempt to project out twenty years to see the evolution of Bitcoin, blockchain, alternative cryptocurrencies and decentralization.

This is the type of article that will look unbelievably foolish or incredibly brilliant when I’m old and gray."

  1. The Bubble Bursts (★★★★★)
  2. Government Cryptocurrencies will Flourish (★★★★★)
  3. Decentralized Cryptocurrencies Will Become a Parallel Economic Operating System for the Planet (★★★★☆)
  4. The Killer App for Crypto is NOT a Browser (★★★★☆)
  5. Blockchain is Just the Beginning of Decentralized Consensus (★★★★★)
  6. Crypto Will Get a LOT Easier to Use (★★★★★)
  7. The protocols of Coins will Get Abstracted from the Coins Themselves (★★★★★)
  8. We will have Four Dominate Meta Coins, Plus Fifty to One Hundred Minor Coins, and Infinite Virtual Variations of These Coins, Plus State Coins (★★★☆☆)
  9. We’ll Learn We Didn’t Know Crap About Economics (★★★☆☆)
  10. A DAO Will Grow to Fortune 500 Status (★★★☆☆)
  11. The Gig Economy Will Grow Big Time (★★★☆☆)
  12. The Blockchain Will Enable All Kinds of Evil (★★★★★)
  13. Bitcoin Has a 50/50 Shot At Surviving (★★★☆☆)

"If you’re working on crypto then you’re building the world of tomorrow but don’t expect it to arrive next week.
Inertia has a way of slowing down even the fastest rockets.
Just enjoy the ride while we boldly go where no one has gone before."

Original Link and Full Version of the Predictions by Daniel Jeffries: https://hackernoon.com/what-will-bitcoin-look-like-in-twenty-years-7e75481a798c

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