[bitxbitxbitcoin]

The block reward has been mostly transaction fees before and will be more and more often with each halvening.

Difficulty adjustment means that Bitcoin’s value doesn’t need to rise for miner’s to continue to be rewarded.

[mtnGoat]

Except without the block rewards the transaction fees will have to go up so miners make the same amount of income. This increase will certainly make BTC less desirable as international wires are still cheaper than btc currently.