What would happen to people's money if the Bitcoin project was discontinued? Here in the Arabic world the biggest problem with online trading is the absence of a good, secure, and flexible money transfer tool or solution. I think Bitcoin is a great solution for this. I have an idea to start a payment processing service using Bitcoin in the Arab world. 

I need to know what would happen if the Bitcoin project was discontinued for any reason.
What would happen to people's money?
Bitcoin exists on a few levels. One is the protocol which evolves through a proposal process. Second is the Bitcoin client and bitcoind project which is an implementation of the protocol. Third is the currency managed by what's referred to as the Satoshi-blockchain. All of the above are available under free software licenses or are, at the very least, public information (in the case of the blockchain and protocol). It is therefore unlikely for any part of Bitcoin to be meaningfully discontinued.

Should everyone in the world stop using Bitcoin, the transactions and private keys to spend again would still exist so you could say the money will stay right where it is. The exchange rate wouldn't fare well but the Bitcoins would all just be there in deep freeze until someone started mining again. Once you know more, you'll see how unlikely any kind of discontinuation would be.