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Bitcoin, cybercurrency, competition, Leland Yeager
Digital Money, Economic Thought

Is Bitcoin Doomed?

George Selgin/May 21, 2015June 19, 2022

OK, I'm being melodramatic.  But the question actually posed by the PanAm Post, "Will Bitcoin's Fixed Money Supply Be Its Downfall?", was only slightly less so.  They had me take the "yes" position.  But as my doubts about Bitcoin's future are far from certain,  I was delighted…

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