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Hundreds of years after the tulip bubble, tulips are still a big part of Dutch tourism with flower markets being a big attraction in Amsterdam. Because culture doesn’t disappear.

So good look with that.

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Crypto bubble bursting just means that all investors leave, not that crypto currencies disappear. So bitcoin would go back to levels it was at before the investment craze 4 years ago, so about 5 years ago? At that point you could buy stuff with it and send people money, but people didn't view it as an investment vehicle.

The blockchain is an append-only structure; it can only grow. The longer the blockchain, the more it costs to process a transaction.

So if people divest from bitcoin and the price drops, that won't make bitcoin more suitable for buying stuff. Nothing can make the blockchain shorter.

You can truncate it at any point you want. If in 2060, the community collectively decides that the chain is too long, they can just decide that a block from 2040 is the new genesis block.

By 2060 I'll have been dead for about 15 years.

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