'Raise Your Hand If You've Bought Or Sold Something With Bitcoin': Fed Official Reportedly Slams Crypto And Stablecoins As 'Utterly Useless'

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• Stablecoins do not do anything that Venmo and PayPal do not already do

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• When you ask basic questions about crypto or stablecoins there's just nothing there

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• Cryptocurrencies are like Beanie Babies with no clear fundamentals beyond bypassing banking regulations

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• Bitcoin is not digital gold or no longer digital gold

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• Bitcoin is transitioning from being purely speculative to having a real use case

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• Stablecoins are not useful in the U.S. and their cross-border benefits are lost when converted to native currencies

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• Cryptocurrencies are utterly useless

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• Bitcoin is not a means of payment or currency and is unlikely to replace gold or fiat

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• Stablecoin proponents only provide buzzword salad answers about tokenized deposits without explaining real consumer benefits

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• AI has real long-term potential for the U.S. economy as opposed to crypto

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