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What makes you think it won't become the defacto digital currency in the future, and thus a "general-purpose currency"?

You may say that's just a baseless speculation, but not any less than yours.



Bitcoin would make a horrible official currency for a country (inability to control the money supply, enforced deflation which discourages investment, easy for capital to flee). However, as a 'second currency' it has a lot going for it, security, fast, cheap, easy transfers between people across the world. I could see it becoming the worlds international 'second' currency.




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