Disadvantages Of Bitcoin

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1.1 Introduction
Cryptocurrency is a relatively new phenomenon. Currency with no underlying value traded in vast online communities and networks, have become a common occurrence. It started off as a fascinating idea, and has grown to become the source of billion dollar currencies and a large speculation market. The most popular among these cryptocurrencies is Bitcoin.
Bitcoins are a digital, or virtual, currency that uses peer-to-peer technology to facilitate instant payments that was created in 2009 by Nakamoto, (2008). Since Bitcoins are not a fiat currency (currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, but is not backed by a physical commodity), they are not controlled by a single entity like a central bank and are therefore sometimes referred to as a decentralized currency Spagnuolo, (2013)
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Currency, or money in general, is typically defined as having three main functions which are as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. There are two competing views in the literature on whether BitCoin fulfils the three criteria of a currency as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. One part of the literature argues that BitCoin does not behave as a real currency, but rather resembles speculative investments (Velde, (2013) ; Hanley, (2013) ; Yermack, (2013) ; Williams, (2014).This is because BitCoin may fail to become a global medium of exchange, as it is used in too few exchanges of goods and services and it has a negligible market presence globally Yermack, (2013). Other line of research, stresses the positive aspects of BitCoin and perceives it as a global virtual currency with strong future potential (e.g Luther & White, (2014); Folkinshteyn & Lennon,
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