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sightline's avatar

One minor clarification - Square making half its revenue from BTC Cash App is misleading; BTC transaction revenue is measured as gross value while currency-denominated transactions are measured as net. The proper comparison would be $4.6B gross/$97mm net revenue for BTC transactions measured against $103.7B gross/$3.3B net for other transactions.

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Erastus Kingbolt's avatar

This is already explained well, but to put it explicitly: an increase in the real value of a currency is deflation. As long as the price of Bitcoin goes up faster than dollar inflation, i.e. as long as it's an appealing investment, it's unappealing as a means of exchange (deflationary spiral etc).

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