Bitcoin is not digital gold. Bitcoin is primarily a decentralised medium of exchange and secondarily a digital store of value. If Bitcoin is anything else it has failed.
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It is both.
Every network has a inherent means of exchange .. for example gold traders don't convert gold to fiat among themselves .. they just exchange gold .. so are bitcoins's exchange properties .. it is not meant to buy coffee !
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