Bitcoin Collapse Scenarios
The cluster focuses on speculations and hypothetical scenarios about Bitcoin's potential failure, death, or value plummeting to zero, including security breaks, massive sell-offs like Satoshi's coins, regulatory crackdowns, and market crashes.
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Bitcoin will die when it is broken and someone hovers up all them coins
yes if that happens bitcoin is over. but having said that it doesn't seem like it'll happen soon.
After such transaction Bitcoin price would plummet to 0 anyway
Not likely since that would have Bitcoin crashing massively due to uncertainty about what will become of the Satoshi Bitcoins.
Do you have any hypothetical scenarios that could wipe BTC off the planet or at least make it impossible to cash back it to fiat?
sadly probably too little too late. see the "Speculation About The Eventual Death Of Bitcoin" thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9576777
If satoshi tried to cash out, wouldn't the value of bitcoin plummet?
When it blows up, it will take Bitcoin with it.
Bitcoin can't handle any more good news or it will plummet to zero!
Think of it this way: by starving the supply of that one bitcoin, you have contributed in some small way to the eventual loss of all bitcoins through similar events - speeding up the rate at which the world can move on from this silly fad.