I, for one, trust hand written warnings from “Low Quality Facts” account

In my economics 101 gen ed course back in college, I remember a story about some society somewhere that used boulders as currency. But they were such a pain to lug around that often times they wouldn't move them. They'd just keep track of who owned which boulders. "I'll give you one boulder for a cow." "Ok, it's a deal." "Cool, cool. The boulder over in so-and-so's field is your now. Pleasure doing business with you."

There was even a case where someone tried to transport a boulder across a lake but the boat sank midway and the boulder ended up on the lakebed under many feet of water. But they kept exchanging the boulder as currency for goods and services.

I'm imagining a dystopian Idiocracy-like future where Bitcoin has deleted itself, but people still trade seed phrases on slips of paper or pressed into metal plates with a "there's 7 whole Bitcoins in this wallet. Trust me bro."

I doubt this is true, but it sure would be funny.

Please tell me someone here can point out the actual source for this fun fact.

Dear God, Cthulhu, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Shiva, Tiny Baby Jesus in His crib

All I ask for the next 2 years is universal healthcare, Henry Kissinger to die an embarrassing death, and this to be true

Even if true. Bitcoin isn't Bitcoin anymore. That's why there's BTC classic and so on.

Even worse fate for cryptobros than Bitcoin deleting itself: people actually realizing that digital hashes don't have real value.

Mind you this applies to regular money too.

All cryptocurrency isn't stiricrly based off of magic and mysterious bitcoin code.

Even if there was code that made the coin erase itself, it would have been found and fixed (or abandoned for a new and better blockchain coin a'la Ethereum or Monero).

God I wish

If it were true it'd be removed before then anyway.

I want proof, where's the source code?

This would be a very banksy move if it ended up happening.

April fools!

Well there is a limit of mining, every new digit is 16 times harder to make, there are just 2 or 3 digits left.

This was made with growth and inflation in mind so the currency last like 60-80 years but they didn't predict giant farms using entire powerplants of energy, so basically 50 years of bitcoin was shortened to the last 5. The thing is profitability as miners have to make an entire 28 bit hash at random wasting dozens of GPU in exchange of less money of what they cost so the prizes must be risen even more making it even more centralized (also lowering the price for every other holder)

This is almost poetic As bitcoin approaches its end only the top miners are allowed to continue increasing the risk of the death which is 51% attack, if some of the final miners will unite and reach 51% at this point they can cash out the entire currency and make it look that the price falls to zero.