Due to Bitcoin size and liquidity its def not going anywhere any time soon. I do think over time protocols that can self fund, self govern, market themselves, develop killer features and build big equitable communities behind them will go very far. There's so many economic incentives and features a blockchain needs to have to be truly successful. A lot of Bitcoin's future success will rely on scaling the problem of mining centralization. One of the main hurdles holding back coins like Dash and NEO is lack of big fiat exchange support. It was only until last year ETH got added to any fiat exchanges and only this summer before Asia adding ETH/fiat trading pairs. The decentralized exchange protocols could really change the game in liquidity and accessibility + the peer to peer fiat options under development. Once we see better ease of use crypto should really take off in developing world.
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I agree about what you say about decentralized exchanges and the developing world.
But I still maintain that no single blockchain will ever be able to scale to the level necessary for mass adoption without very heavy mining centralization. I'd say decentralized exchanges and atomic swaps between chains in addition to mesh networks such as the Lightning Network are required for mass adoption. The value of Bitcoin may rise to the tens of hundreds of thousands per coin only if becomes generally accepted as a digital store of value ("digital gold").