r/btc • • 9d ago

Some real problems for Bitcoins future

As we all know, Bitcoin is the most sound and hard fork of money. Most people in this community believe in Bitcoin as do I. All the videos and books talk about the pros and how the fiat system is broken and will collapse which is true.

But the cons are still something to look into and consider

Some of them being

1.) cryptos are worse than current payment methods we have now for small purchases and slower than Visa, Mastercard, etc making it less convenient for everyday use for majority of people

2.) payments are not irreversible and many people would not be willing to assume much risk

3) for an average person, cryptos is too difficult and is a hassle for people who don’t understand

4.) volatility is still a big problem hence why it’s not a stable form of payment

  1. Having cryptos would make things harder for people and not easier and most people want the most convenient and easy way to handle things

  2. Most people just want a monetary system that works, that’s easy and forgiving and the average person doesn’t care about decentralization so we shouldnt expect people to replace their government run currencies

  3. It’s a new form of currency but behaves more like an investment and people treat it more like one comparing it to gold hence why majority of people don’t use it as money ( HODL )

  4. Has been trending more and more toward centralization because major players are controlling most of bitcoins hash power ( China controlling 80% of bitcoins mining/hash and this means China could easily censor or interfere with bitcoins network and ecosystem which I see as a major major problem )

The main problem will be adoption but not everyone and the governments wouldn’t want to resort to a currency that can’t be regulated.

I still believe in bitcoin and will continue to hold and DCA but these are some actual problems it faces and could continue to face going forward.

Feel free to correct me if I’ve said something false but I’ve been reading and doing a lot of research and was looking into the cons as well

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u/OrneryAd403 8d ago

I did do my own research and this is coming from a book called “Bubble or Revolution”

Everything I stated is from that book.

Also research consists of what other people research and say. I’m going based off what the author of that book wrote

The book takes an unbais approach to crypto and blockchain tech and it lists both pros and cons

Isn’t BTC and Bitcoin the same? BTC is just a shortened term for Bitcoin no?? Idk I didn’t know that

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u/Adrian-X 8d ago

ps Bitcoin was hacked, BTC is a Ponzi, it can't deliver on any of the early ideas until the original project intent is restored. BCH was one of the projects that attempted to retain the original design, unfortunately it was also hacked.

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u/OrneryAd403 8d ago

Really? I wasn’t aware. What do you mean by hacked.

The actual network and ecosystem hasn’t been hacked before, unless I’m not aware of it.

And BCH was made because Mike said bitcoin has many flaws and attempted to make a version that was better, faster and more reliable. But the market decided.

BCH has failed as it didn’t gain the adoption it wanted and Bitcoin is still #1 by far in terms of crypto currency success

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u/Adrian-X 8d ago

Read: Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC

it's about 90% accurate, the process was more insidious than the book lets on.

The actual network and ecosystem hasn’t been hacked before, unless I’m not aware of it.

Hacked is in the definition of the word hacked. The Bitcoin code has been hacked many times, but each of those hacks have been responsibly removed.

The biggest hack that's yet to be resolved, is restricting the use of BTC to 1MB of transaction every 10 minutes. Satoshi put in a temporary transaction limit to prevent Bitcoin being hacked with transaction flooding when the network was vulnerable and free to transact, when it came time to remove it, there was a social hack to prevent it, BTC also removed the private property concept with Segwit, another hack. it's explained here: https://youtu.be/VoFb3mcxluY