Bitcoin (BTC) $76,793.63 -4.94%
Ethereum (ETH) $2,235.32 -4.23%
Tether (USDT) $1.00 -0.01%
Solana (SOL) 94.724828 -5.23%
Chainlink (LINK) $11.13 -4.71%
Cardano (ADA) $0.19 -4.62%
Litecoin (LTC) $55.32 -4.56%
Dash (DASH) $48.36 -4.66%
Polygon (MATIC) 0.25693 2.45%
Helium (HNT) 0.353604 -6.50%
X-Cash (XCASH) 3.0E-6 0.00%
Dogecoin (DOGE) $0.00 -6.04%

Cryptocurrencies: 30336

Markets: 109696

Market Cap: $2,587,006,155,923

24h Vol: $150,702,742,270

Wes Messamore

2019-06-01 15:18:25

Everyone's Hodling Bitcoin: Only 1.3% of Transactions are Payments in 2019

Bloomberg says Bitcoin's price rally masks the 'uncomfortable fact' that people are hardly using it to buy things–– but there's an economic reason why.

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