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Bitcoin for payments a distant dream as use dries up

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Tom Wilson
Reuters
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

LONDON -- The use of bitcoin for commercial payments has dropped dramatically this year, even as the original digital coin starts to fulfill one of the basic features of any payment currency: stability.

The value of bitcoins handled by major payment processors shriveled nearly 80 percent in the year to September, data from blockchain researcher Chainalysis shows. That suggests the cryptocurrency is struggling to mature from speculative asset to a serious alternative to state-issued money. ...

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-payments-analysis/b...



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