The future of Bitcoin as a payment network was questioned by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who recently criticized many aspects of the digital currency.
The founder and CEO of FTX, which often goes by his initials as SBF, said that Bitcoin has very little future as a payments network due to its inefficiency and high environmental costs associated with its proof of work algorithm. The 30-year-old billionaire went on to say that the BTC network isn’t capable of handling thousands/millions of transactions-per-second (TPS), but also mentioned that BTC can be transferred over a layer two protocol such as Lightning.
However, Bankman-Fried also took to Twitter to clarify that criticisms weren’t all that he said, as he mentioned that Bitcoin could have a potential future in becoming a store of value. If that were to become Bitcoin’s future, the digital currency would change from being viewed as a currency to an asset, similar to how gold is viewed.
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