Will Bitcoin Die in 2025?

Let’s take a moment to pay our respects. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Bitcoin — the glorious trailblazer that dragged the financial world kicking and screaming into the future.  But here’s the inconvenient truth: Bitcoin’s grand finale isn’t going to be some epic blaze of glory. Instead, it’s going to wither away like a forgotten relic on the dusty shelf of technological history.

And that’s okay.

There’s an old saying that we stand on the shoulders of giants, and there’s no doubt that in another dozen years or so, Bitcoin will be enshrined alongside Wi-Fi, quantum computing, and AI as one of the most revolutionary innovations of the 21st century. But being revolutionary doesn’t mean being immortal. Bitcoin’s reign is in its twilight.

Before anyone starts a Twitter war, let me be clear — Bitcoin isn’t about to keel over tomorrow. It will stumble and lurch through a few more rises and falls, probably for years. And even after it is mostly irrelevant, it’ll hang around because true extinction is reserved for projects that never mattered. 

No, Bitcoin won’t vanish. It’ll just become a collector’s item — something crypto hipsters will brag about owning, like a first-edition vinyl pressed by some obscure punk band.

In other words, Bitcoin will eventually become less of a currency and more of a status badge. The cracks are there — and they’re getting wider. Here’s why Bitcoin’s slow fade into obsolescence is inevitable:

Bitcoin Is a Tech Relic

In technology years, Bitcoin is basically a fossil. It’s nearly 15 years old, and that’s like using a Motorola Razr in 2025. Remember those? Of course not. 

Nobody wants to admit that their beloved Bitcoin is the blockchain equivalent of logging into MySpace on your dial-up connection while jamming to Lily Allen.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world has moved on. I’m holding an iPhone 16 Pro in my hand right now — a device that’s gone through countless iterations since its first version hit the shelves. 

And yet, Bitcoin? Still the same old slow, clunky, power-hungry beast it always was. Revolutionary in 2009? Absolutely. Relevant in 2035? Please.

Bitcoin Does One Thing (and That’s It)

Let’s take a deep breath here and acknowledge that Bitcoin does have utility. It’s a store of value and a medium of exchange. Granted. Accepted. Thats what it was meant to be.

However, that’s… literally it. The rise of utility tokens, smart contracts, and decentralized apps means that people want more than just a glorified digital gold bar.

People are no longer impressed by “just a currency.” They want smart contracts that automate tasks, decentralized finance that earns them yield, and programmable assets that do more than just sit there being expensive. Bitcoin’s stubborn refusal to evolve is slowly making it the old guard — it is burned CDs in a Spotify world.

Bitcoin Is [Extremely] Energy Inefficient

Brace yourself: Each Bitcoin transaction consumes roughly 150,000 times the energy of a single Visa transaction. 

That’s not a typo. 

Let’s face it — if your currency is so outrageously inefficient that entire countries ban it to keep their power grids from collapsing, it’s not the future. It’s a problem.

No amount of “digital gold” rhetoric will change the fact that Bitcoin mining wastes more energy than the total consumption of some small nations. And while pro-Bitcoin voices scream about renewable mining, the fact remains that the inefficiency is baked into the protocol itself. You can’t slap a solar panel on that kind of waste and call it progress.

Bitcoin Is Painfully Slow

Ten minutes. That’s the average time it takes for a Bitcoin transaction to process. 

While you’re waiting for your coffee payment to go through, your barista has already served half the neighborhood using a Visa giving them 3x points on . It didn't take them that long to grow the coffee beans.

We live in a world where some modern cryptocurrencies confirm transactions in less than a second, some of these transactions are so fast that they artificially delay the transaction on your screen, so the user doesn't think there was an error and try the transaction again.

The average attention span of a man is 8.25 seconds. Approximately the time it takes Bolt to run the 100m dash and Visa to process its 4th transaction

Bitcoin’s sluggishness might be tolerable for massive transactions or long-term investments, but as a global payment system, it’s embarrassing. A decentralized future built on something so excruciatingly slow isn’t a future at all.

Bitcoin Is Expensive and Unstable

Sure, we get it — Bitcoin is valuable…well, it is valued, at least. 

But the sheer cost and the weird mental gymnastics required to wrap your head around paying 0.000062 BTC for your overpriced latte is exhausting.  

But worse? the fact that, by the time your transaction clears, that latte might change in cost by as much as a percentage point per minute. Granted, it can swing the positive direction too can’t it. But volatility makes Bitcoin impractical for everyday transactions, and the truth is, for most of us, that's what money was made for.

Most businesses aren’t interested in accepting a currency that can buy a house one day and a sandwich the next. Until Crypto shows signs of stability, it will always be a fringe asset.

Bitcoin Is in Government Crosshairs

Governments have a nasty habit of frowning on anything that drains their power … grids [strategic pause] while offering no tangible societal [read, geopolitical] benefit. China has already kicked Bitcoin mining to the curb, and others are following suit. As a student of realpolitik, it's easy to see why there will always be crosswinds for cryptocurrency; decentralized money ultimately means that governments lose control over their financial destinies, and cannot wield their currencies like swords in cold wars, for sanctions, or to quell societal upheaval.  The [at least supposed] emphasis on climate change, gives them carte blanche to draft laws and regulations that curb proof-of-work cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and their insatiable appetite for energy. Regardless of the current trends and how friendly some current administrations appear to be, the list of countries cracking down will only grow. If you think governments are just going to let an environmental trainwreck take over the world’s finances, you’re sorely mistaken. Bitcoin’s existential problem isn’t just about technology — it’s about legislation, and the writing is on the wall.

Bitcoin’s Security Has an expiration Date

Bitcoin’s main bragging point has always been its immutable ledger. Great. 

Unfortunately, the rest of the crypto world has already caught up — and then some. 

But with advancements in quantum computing and its inherent inability to shift protocols,  Bitcoin’s legendary security now, well, has a shelf life.

China, Microsoft, Google, et al. are in a mad dash to achieve a million logical cubits; absolutely shattering the security infrastructure that underpins our entire digital landscape. Our militaries have already started hardening assets, our banking institutions have 4-6 years to fix their standards, NIST has already sounded the alarms. All of our existing encryption and all the fancy math that protects us goes “bye bye.”

In other words, the one feature that made Bitcoin “special” is now just another thing that cannot stand the turning wheel of technology innovation.

No matter what happens, Bitcoin will eventually be too vulnerable to trade.

An Inevitable Goodbye

So here we are. 

Let’s pretend Bitcoin doesn’t have legions of die-hard devotees foaming at the mouth to defend it. Let’s pretend it’s just some clunky, outdated, power-hungry dinosaur of a cryptocurrency called “Oldcoin.” The institutional attention it's been getting, is a temporary salve meant to drive up its price for the muckety-mucks and the dark stones who are holding it. The fact that it has reached the fossils running the banking world is a sign that the out of touch finally have caught on and are running the play. If nobody was hyping it up,  we’d probably look at it and say, “Yeah, that thing is on its way out.”

And we’d be right. Bitcoin may go down in history as one of the most important financial innovations of all time — but it won’t go down as the future of finance. Its just too slow, too cumbersome, it has too much heat, too many enemies, and its encryption just wont survive the Quantum revolution. 

I hear you. I can hear your objections like you have telepathy. “Bitcoin will adapt, it will institute new encryption, there will be creative ways to increase speeds so point of sale transactions don’t take ten minutes, and so on and so forth.”

Unlikely. Bitcoin was never built to scale. And if it is substantially changed, it really isn't Bitcoin anymore either. 

 The era of Bitcoin is ending and will end, not with triumphant fanfare, but with a shrug of indifference as the world moves on to better and newer things. 

It won’t die now. Perhaps it will live another 5 years, maybe 10 more. But one thing is sure, when it does ride into the sunset, it won’t have any life in its eyes.

Bitcoin will die with a whimper.