Next up is I go spam youtube with the best rock bands and I know you work in the "me" office!

"Motörhead - God Was Never on Your Side".

Bitcoin will looked at like the "The most friends of rioting dogs". A dead end. Aka.dev/null

where is it going?
No one really knows but one things for sure that it would really be reflecting out in overall recognition and adoption on which it
would really be that depending into those factors which would really be seen into its value. So it would vary whether going up or down but seeing on how it did
perform for the past decade then we have seen so much progress.

Will it make everyone free?
Free in terms of finances? It would really be depending on the investment that you had put up of course.

Will it be regulated and become government controlled?
Government cant touch this one, they've been long time sure that trying out to do such thing but still even up to now
there's no way that it could be stopped.

This is why investing or choosing up whether for investment purposes or would really be focusing into its
utility then it would really be that according into you.

So many questions you have there, but let me try to answer all of them as summarily as possible. Fine, Bitcoin has made tremendous success between 2009 and 2024 as it moved from almost nothing to the ATH of about $73,850 this year. It is still promising on the bullish path but any right-thinking person should know that it can't be business as usual for the coin. The way Bitcoin was moving in huge multiples those years cannot happen again because the price is now heavy, otherwise, it will become inflationary and become a joke rather than what people wanted it to be. But still, it will continue to climb higher, only that the pace will be so reduced, unlike the huge targets that the unfounded people are calling for it. Also, in this current bull run, if the coin can hit the $100,000 psychological level, it will be a very good achievement even as it will face a whole lot of hurdles before such would happen.

As for Bitcoin helping everyone to gain financial freedom, I tell you emphatically that it will not happen. That time has passed and even if someone strikes Bitcoin at $70,000, who knows how many years it will take before the coin will reach twice the price at $140,000? That can't ascertain financial freedom anymore or hedge inflation.

But for the regulation, well, Bitcoin can't be regulated directly because it is out of the control of the government since it is a decentralised blockchain. But indirectly, we should expect more regulation, and whether we like it or not, Bitcoin can still be indirectly regulated and this will happen in the strictest form over time.

It will be regulated. As the SEC and many other government entities are involved in crypto and in the latest news, Gary Gensler said we will be working to regulate crypto so people would not be scammed by any platform in this era and I think it's a good thing as if they will regulate it. It means more and more people will be joining the crypto industry. But it also means we will see crypto controlled by the government but that will not be 100% as no one can actually control your funds except the banks.

If you own the key funds are yours, they can't own them or force you to give them your keys. Overall people will come toward the use of BTC directly as of now they are using BTC via ETFs which is not the direct use of it, but a time will come, where the regulation will start to hurt people and make some difficulties fro them that they will seek alternative options like using BTC directly without using BTC ETFs.

Absolutely no one can boost speak of the future if bitcoin and that’s why, everything about the future of bitcoin is only predicted and just from the way everything looks in the cryptocurrency industry, I think there would be a time cryptocurrency might be at some degree be regulated by the government because lately, I have seen a lot of exchanges which makes the trading and exchange of cryptocurrencies much more easier been restricted in slot of Africa countries and this is a clearer sign that, government are already winning these battle of decentralization and with time, government might begin to directly or indirectly run the affairs of cryptocurrencies.

I'm not sure where you read the trend of holding in centralized exchange is keep decreasing when the value of their hot wallet keep increasing, it's opposite with what you said.

1. https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/binance
2. https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/bybit
3. https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/coinbase

Until the government would be very strict with Bitcoin taxes and asked to declare all of your coins and the address you own, if you didn't declare it you will get taxed higher or treat you as a criminal, it's when the government almost have a power to control Bitcoin "indirectly".

From the time period you have mentioned, I have not seen any government control over Bitcoin, which means that Bitcoin was not created to be controlled by any government in the world, so you don't need to doubt that. Moreover, if you already know what the price of Bitcoin was in 2009 and the price of Bitcoin this year, that should help you a little to open your mind and eyes to see that Bitcoin is the best asset that cannot be controlled by the government but is capable of growing to this size.

You can't get better view on reality from simply asking people on street how they view it.

The challenges you have listed are a big problem and the solution has been there for years so why you still believe "with time" it will be solved ?

You can read my last two posts about it:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5498747.msg64197903#msg64197903
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5498747.msg64201969#msg64201969

Price will increase indefinitely because it's evaluated in FIAT which is printed without limit, the same way as Gold is increasing in value.

I'm sure we won't see 10x price increases in short period of time in the future (or even now) as marketcap will be too big for that.

As for being used as payment, if devs won't update the protocol for scalability then no, it won't.
Bitcoin will miss the biggest market of them all - being used as Money.

Seeing how things are today and for the past decade, the boat has already sailed away for that market.