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Bitcoin doomed as a payment system and its novelty will fade, says Federal Reserve Board of Governors member

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Re: It's the usefulness

PIX is operated by the Central Bank of Brazil, i.e. with government oversight. That makes tax avoidance and money laundering difficult. Cryptocurrencies, by contrast, are designed to (among other things) be deliberately opaque to the authorities.

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