Cryptocurrency bitcoin, which has come under rising scrutiny since the recent collapse of Mt.Gox, has a much better shot as a payment mechanism than a currency, says Goldman Sachs.
“The most commonly identified properties of a successful currency are that it is: widely (if not universally) accepted as a medium of exchange (and) a stable store of value,” Dominic Wilson and Jose Ursua economists at Goldman Sachs wrote in a report on Tuesday.
Read the rest of this post on the original site »
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.