Is there a possibility that the whole blockchain system will be DOWN? I want to know if there is a possibility that all of our hard-earned bitcoins will turn to dust if the Blockchain system will get shut down or stop. Is this possible? I really have a big question mark in my mind since Bitcoin is a digital thing.
http://p2pfoundation.net/Blockchain


  "The blockchain is nothing more than a long string of transactions,
  each of which refers to an earlier record in the chain. But Bitcoin
  users do not directly make the updates to the blockchain. In order to
  transfer coins to someone else, you have to create a request and
  broadcast it over the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network. After that, it’s
  in the hands of the miners. They scoop up the requests and do a few
  checks to make sure that the signature is correct and that there are
  enough bitcoins to make the transaction; then they bundle the new
  records into a block and add it to the end of the blockchain."


I don't think that it will happen. As long as there is miners to "scoop" up the transactions, blockchain will still work as it should be. Miners will not stop since they are earning worth of bitcoins from transactions fees.