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KEY POINTS Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday warned that bitcoin is an “extremely inefficient” way to conduct monetary transactions. She spoke as the cryptocurrency’s price tumbled in morning...

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Lynny
·2021-02-23
It was never meant to be a transactional currency, rather a stored value asset like gold
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Wallstrtbets
·2021-02-23
Does she really know about bitcoin other than hearsay?
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Kuanygee
·2021-02-23
別阻擋人發財嗎
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NCM
·2021-02-23
[噴血]
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Pewuf
·2021-02-23
Boomers have no idea
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123321Alex
·2021-02-23
Pls comment on my posts
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  ok ??
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Fish01
·2021-02-23
No way
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Jocyy
·2021-02-23
Buy
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