• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah, it being built upon a decentralized multiple transaction-ledger means that no singular nation’s treasury has control over its value. It’s also actually great for law enforcement because removing a transaction from the history is incredibly difficult, places that offer “private” transactions just create thousands of fake transactions to hide the real one inside, but the evidence still exists.

    One of the largest BTC owners on earth is the USA’s FBI who have confiscated tons of the stuff used in illegal activity.

    EDIT: Noteworthy is that BTC is far from the most efficient tool for this exact use case. Not all blockchains are equal in power consumption for example, Ethereum apparently uses far less per transaction.

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      Absolutely not the best. just the best adoption rate due to being first. Also because buying any other crypto usually involves step 1: buy bitcoin and step 2: trade for whatevercoin.