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> Fees have actually come back to earth over the last month

Well yes, but who would to want to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange now? The period of fee inflation will surely have killed that off for all but trivial uses.

Similar rationale with Bitcoin as a store of value. A 7% 30 day vol vs USD is, well, chunky.

As a vehicle for speculation and short term vol trading it's clearly still a thing but that's not quite what it was intended for.



>Well yes, but who would to want to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange now?

The same people that have always made up the bulk of actual bitcoin payments - people buying things on the dark web from markets that haven't integrated Monero yet.




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