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by GuB-42 1850 days ago
The major selling point of bitcoin now is that it is a way to store value that is not controlled by a single entity.

Anonymity never was a design goal (even though it helped) and transactions are now too slow and expensive to make it a viable payment network. You can still buy drugs in Bitcoin, but it is not why people invest so much into it.