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Anything can be a means of exchange. Bitcoin just happens to have zero other uses.


Not anything can be a means of exchange. For that it has to have some physical properties (transportability, fungibility for example) and social properties (value !) or else you are relying on third party procedures to keep count ... or a public unfalsifiable record like a blockchain.




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