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In an op-ed, Prof. David Yermack outlines Bitcoin's flaws
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Excerpt from MIT Technology Review -- "Money is supposed to serve three purposes: it functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. Bitcoin arguably satisfies the first criterion, because a growing number of merchants accept it as payment. But it performs poorly as a unit of account and a store of value."
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