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> today it is being used as store of value

Bitcoin is not the only currency. There are quite a lot of decent networks who offer quick transactions with almost no fees and is not a speculative currency





Tokenized bitcoin is actually perfect for this. Bitcoin is otherwise, a useless pet rock and if you follow my comment above, it makes it useful, while also removing all the ESG arguments against bitcoin (because tokenized bitcoin is on eth and eth is PoS).

I never mentioned bitcoin and you are missing the point here. Cryptocurrency network is just a publicly available distributed ledger that records "financial" movements, these movements are denominated in the inherent cryptocurrency of the network. They are just units of measure but they themselves do not store any value. The world needs to start actually using crypto for payments, so you can exchange FIAT or precious metals for a crypto coin and then use it to buy groceries. It is just a means of exchange of value, not the value itself. The fact that people take it as store of value should necessitate a nee designation beyond the "retard" classification.



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