PORTLAND • Bitcoin has a lingering problem that few people are talking about amid the renewed exuberance of the recent price surge.
Hardly anyone is using the world's largest cryptocurrency for anything beyond speculation. Data from New York-based blockchain researcher Chainalysis Inc shows that only 1.3 per cent of economic transactions came from merchants in the first four months of 2019, little changed over the boom and bust cycles of the prior two years.
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