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The Bitcoin network is slow to verify and has the environmental impact of a medium-sized industrialized economy just to run the thing. It's also exceptionally volatile compared to fiat currencies (though at this point pretty stable compared to other cryptocurrencies), and the fact that it's deflationary makes it difficult to justify as a solution in a still-growing worldwide economy.


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