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«isn't widely used anywhere»

Bitcoin processes 10 million transactions a month (300k/day) and it's generally been growing over the years: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactions.ht...

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Which is negligible compared to the number of credit card transactions in the US (> 300 times as many per month) or bank transfers in Germany alone (50 times as many per month). And that's not even counting other ways or countries.

But how many useful transactions? Isn’t the vast majority of that trading and not economically useful activity?

Who is the global arbiter of usefulness? My transactions have always been useful for me and for my counterparty, if that's what you are asking.

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