If cryptocurrencies fail to provide easy liquidity, then
they fail as mediums of exchange, one of the principal roles of money.
Not exact matches
Despite the record - breaking values
of Bitcoin and its ilk, most digital currencies have
failings that make them problematic
as a mainstream
medium of exchange.
In February 2018, Bank
of England governor Mark Carney said that cryptocurrencies have «
failed» to behave
as currencies because they are not an effective «store
of value» and because «nobody uses [them]
as a
medium of exchange.»