BITCOIN IN 2035: NO REVOLUTION
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In 2035, there will be no spectacular scene. No cheering crowds, no official proclamation, no flag planted on the ruins of the previous system. No clear moment when one can say, "That's it, the world has changed." Those expecting a visible revolution, a sudden collapse, a clean break between before and after will be disappointed. Bitcoin doesn't work that way. It's not designed to overthrow, but to endure. It doesn't replace the world; it settles into it, slowly, without asking permission, without demanding recognition. In 2035, Bitcoin will not be an event. It will be a fact.
Most people will continue to live without ever uttering its name. They will use interfaces, applications, hybrid systems, sometimes without knowing what lies beneath. Like today, few truly understand how electricity, GPS, or the internet work. They know they function. That's enough. Bitcoin will follow this trajectory. It will cease to be a topic, a subject of debate, an ideological object. It will become a background layer, a silent infrastructure, present but not central to conversations. This silence will not be a failure. It will be the sign that the protocol has reached its equilibrium point.
By 2035, the cycles of panic will have lost their intensity. Political announcements will continue, laws will pile up, and attempts at control will multiply, but they will no longer be perceived as existential. Not because the state will have won, but because Bitcoin will have demonstrated, time and again, that it does not react. It absorbs. It takes in. It continues. Every attempt to define it, name it, classify it will have produced the same result as before: a peripheral adjustment, never a change to its core. Eventually, even its adversaries will have understood that it is pointless to fight a mechanism that expects nothing from them.
The major difference compared to previous decades is that Bitcoin will no longer be associated with urgency. In 2025, 2028, and 2030, it is still perceived as an escape route, a refuge in times of crisis, an answer to an unstable world. By 2035, this perception will have changed. Not because the world will have become stable, but because Bitcoin will have ceased to be exceptional. It will simply be there. One option among many, but a unique one, because it will not depend on any future promises. It will exist in the present, functional, tested, and proven by time.
The silent normalization comes with the disappearance of the heroic narrative. Iconic figures will have lost their aura. The most vocal maximalists will have been replaced by more discreet, less ideological, more pragmatic profiles. Not because they will have renounced their convictions, but because they will no longer need to defend them. When something has worked for twenty-five years without interruption, justification becomes superfluous. We don't debate gravity. We don't hold public debates to defend the Earth's rotation. Bitcoin will follow this path. It will cease to be a struggle and become a given for those who use it.
In 2035, the majority of bitcoins will remain unchanged. They will be dormant. Not because their holders have become wealthy or disengaged, but because Bitcoin will have fulfilled its primary role: preserving value over time without requiring constant effort. Trading will have migrated elsewhere, as it always has. Financial instruments will have piled on top, derivatives will have proliferated, speculative narratives will continue to exist, but the protocol itself will remain static. This immobility will be its greatest strength. In a world saturated with change, constant updates, and forced disruptions, Bitcoin will offer something rare: continuity.
The fear of obsolescence, omnipresent in technological discourse, will have slipped away from Bitcoin. We will no longer wait for it to "evolve" in order to survive. We will understand that it was designed precisely not to follow the trends. Attempts to compare it to the successive innovations of artificial intelligence, decentralized finance, or digital platforms will seem clumsy, almost anachronistic. Bitcoin will not be judged on its ability to integrate novelty, but on its ability to remain the same. This consistency, once perceived as a weakness, will have become its hallmark.
In the United States, Bitcoin will be neither banned nor sacrosanct. It will be tolerated, integrated in some places, circumvented in others. Some administrations will use it indirectly, without acknowledging it. Others will continue to officially ignore it while monitoring it. But none will seriously claim the power to eliminate it. The question will no longer be "Should Bitcoin be allowed?" but "How do we deal with something that already exists?" This almost imperceptible conceptual shift will mark the end of the illusion of total control. Not a spectacular defeat, but a quiet surrender.
For individuals, Bitcoin in 2035 will no longer be an ideological conversion. There will be no moment of revelation for the majority. It will enter lives through indirect channels: an inheritance, international business, a local crisis, a silent recommendation. Some won't even know they're actually using it. Others will be fully aware, but won't talk about it anymore. The need to convince disappears when the tool is there, available, and seamless. Bitcoin was never meant to be loved. It was meant to be used when circumstances demand it.
What will be most surprising in retrospect is not the adoption itself, but the absence of a founding moment. No "day zero" of the shift. No media frenzy. No predicted end of the world. Bitcoin will have won precisely because it didn't seek to win. It simply existed, produced blocks, and respected its rules, block after block, year after year. In a world obsessed with visibility, this strategy of withdrawal will have been misunderstood for a long time. In 2035, it will appear for what it is: a form of radical patience.
Silent normalization also means the end of excessive promises. Bitcoin will no longer be presented as a cure-all. It won't fix politics, correct human psychology, or eliminate inequality. These expectations will have been abandoned along the way. This stripping away of the narrative will be beneficial. Bitcoin never promised a better world. It offered a tool. Its effects will be determined, as always, by how humans use it. This belated realization will prevent many disappointments.
By 2035, Bitcoin will be boring. And that will be its victory. Boring because it's predictable. Boring because it's stable. Boring because it will ask for nothing. This banality will be precisely what the traditional financial system has never been able to offer in the long run. Where everything rests on trust, interpretation, and human intervention, Bitcoin will continue to function mechanically. This lack of emotion, often criticized, will become a sought-after quality. Bitcoin won't be asked to be intelligent. It will be asked to be reliable.
There will always be crises. Conflicts, local collapses, brutal reorganizations. Bitcoin won't prevent them. It will weather them. Sometimes useful, sometimes marginal, sometimes ignored. But always there. This silent persistence will redefine what "success" means for a monetary technology. Not domination. Not hegemony. Uncompromising survival. The ability to remain intact when everything else reconfigures.
In 2035, some will look back and say that Bitcoin failed because it didn't replace national currencies, because it didn't trigger a visible revolution, because it didn't radically transform everyone's daily life. They will be using the wrong lens. Bitcoin was never designed to be central. It was designed to be independent. This distinction, long overlooked, will become clear over time. It's not the scale of its adoption that will matter, but the quality of its autonomy.
The quiet normalization of Bitcoin will not be a victory story. It will be an observation. A protocol that has survived its criticisms, its co-optations, its hijackings. A protocol that has refused to transform itself to please others. A protocol that has chosen to remain marginal rather than become malleable. In 2035, this obstinacy will appear less as dogma than as a rare consistency.
Bitcoin won't change the world. It will change the way some people position themselves in the world. Less dependent, less rushed, less exposed to the need to believe. This inner, invisible transformation will never make headlines. It will have no set date. It will happen at the pace of the blocks, in the silence of confirmations. Perhaps that's why it will last.
And when, in 2035, someone asks if Bitcoin has succeeded, the answer won't be yes or no. It will be something else entirely. Bitcoin will still be there. Functional. Unchanged. And that simple fact will be enough to answer all questions.
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