>>17110>>17113As the BTC supply diminishes through burning, lost wallets, seizures, and lower mining profits, the price will get increasingly volatile and centrally controlled. Also, when the mining reward eventually diminishes to a point where it is no longer profitable to mine at all. Block conformations will take ages and running a miner will only be done as a form of donation to the project by its supporters. The supporters will not keep it alive forever and it will eventually crash to near 0 as people finally lose the last bit of trust they had in it as a currency. Maybe, when mining becomes too unappealing, somebody will use the low difficulty to their advantage and fake transactions, which will undoubtedly ruin it.