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by theWatcher37 3115 days ago
The entire purpose is to replace fiat. It’s objectively a failure if you can’t buy coffee with it.
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It is to replace central bank control of the money supply (which happens to be fiat).
It provides a ton of value even if you can’t reasonably buy coffee with it. The path to replacing fiat is not adding risk or unpredictability to the figurehead cryptocurrency.