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The thing that makes Bitcoin special among human inventions (or 'discoveries', if you're in that camp) is that unlike other technologies, Bitcoin requires: (a) an un-gameable incentive structure to keep the system sufficiently decentralized and to keep Bitcoin's most fundamental properties: sound and permissionless money. (b) network participants to continue acting rationally for the indefinite future.
Think about fire, electricity or even gold: these things continue to exist whether humans are dumb or not. They don't disappear just because there is no incentive structure, or when humans start acting against their self interest.
So IMHO, Bitcoin can "die" either when the incentive structure becomes gameable (e.g. Bitcoin evolves into a system that is top-heavy on layer 2, which can corrupt the incentives of the base layer), or humans start acting irrationally (for various reasons).
I wrote more about Bitcoin's unique dependence on rationality here. https://hugonguyen.medium.com/bitcoins-incentive-scheme-and-the-rational-individual-dc20effa4715