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Bitcoin's Failure as Money Is Older Than Its Price Problem

Bitcoin's inability to function as money is not a diagnosis triggered by recent price weakness — it predates the decline, and the cryptocurrency's own design is the indictment. The fixed-supply architecture of $BTC,

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