with increasing number of financial institutions showing an interest in the underlying technology of Bitcoin rather than the coin itself, could it be possible Bitcoin becomes irrelevant in the future, most people are confident dealings with banks and if they offer similar technology why the need of Bitcoin.
This is an interesting question and one that gets asked a lot!
Blockchain technology loses much of its punch when the incentivizing power of bitcoin is removed. In my mind, the true genius of the system comes where the blockchain is public and the network supported by miners working for a token.
Banks can harness the underlying tech, but it's the public implementations where the greatest potentials are stored. An incentivized public blockchain is 'alive' and 'self-sustaining' whereas a private blockchain is a dependent application at the control of a switch.
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