How and why would the end of bitcoin (and any other cryptocurrency) occur? Value decrease? Legality issues? Different technology/ideas to supersede it?
Bitcoin is a digital currency eventually will die without its value, without value, just mean it has no users and demand, which means it is dead. I think it will be not having a value anymore because the peolle will be having a problem with it, the transactions, the blockchain. But I think bitcoin will not die because there are so many people who trusts this digital currency.
We the users are the reason why bitcoin is successful now and we can also be the reason if bitcoin will die. As long as we continue supporting, it will always be there but the moment we are discourage from using bitcoin due to some legal implication we might face, we will lose the interest of using it to keep ourselves safe.
Other possibilities also are when there's an altcoin that will attract more investors and supporters than bitcoin, for sure it will leave bitcoin to be worthless. Those are just possibilities actually but I think bitcoin is a very strong to be able to be replace by something new.
I don't think that I, as a user, matter at all in the bitcoin world. The whole thing can go on without me and you. So is the bitcoin's life. The ones that matter the most are the whales. If they team up and dump the whole market and move to a different coin, then we're all doomed. The only thing we can do is follow the crowd and sell our coins. This is the exact reason why people panic sell. They think that whales are selling and so they also should.
Although we are the most important factor, the users, as an individual we don't matter that much. We matter as a whole.