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Few people buy things directly with gold.

"bitcoin transaction volume" is worthless. Anyone could easily make a new record in btc txs for a thousand dollars. If I send money to myself, it counts as a tx.

The real concern with bitcoin is that it can only support 3 transactions a second with the current codebase. Gavin wants to fork it to get rid of the block size limit, but there's been opposition.