The fact that the digital cash system has simply existed for this long is a grand achievement, but this is still an experimental project that could fail. Impending government crackdowns on Bitcoin are often talked about by skeptics of the digital cash system, but some U.S. lawmakers seem convinced they wouldn't be able to implement a Bitcoin ban. In the past, proponents of two Bitcoin forks, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV, have declared their altcoins to be the true version of Bitcoin. That said, neither of those networks gained much traction in terms of being considered the "real Bitcoin" by cryptocurrency users. Introducing a New BugLike Maxwell, Fields does not view a 51% attack as the most likely way in which the Bitcoin experiment could fail.

Source: Forbes October 09, 2019 02:03 UTC