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Is there a future for Bitcoin? An investor and a skeptic make their case

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

Bitcoin

Professor steve hankey says that a bit coin is not a currency. And b bit coin is not really decentralized. Ninety nine per cent of all the transactions occur on centralized exchanges. That leads to all kinds of issues about potential vulnerability in terms of privacy. But i think it's totally valid to propose one alternative which is not state controlled, because, you know, that's just a tool for for freedom,. and you can't mandate that anyone use it.

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