An important issue hindering Bitcoin is uncertainty about its future. The debate is finished whether Bitcoin would have been a successful long haul innovation or fizzle out like so many prior innovations.
It’s possible to create a relatively accurate prediction about the continuing future of Bitcoin by analyzing five factors successfully used by technology adoption experts for many years: relative advantage, compatibility with other innovations, experience through trialability, complexity and observability.
These factors, based on the classic work of innovation diffusion theorist Everett Rogers, when coupled with features unique to Bitcoin, claim that Bitcoin is here now to stay..