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Janet Yellen rips into Bitcoin, calls it highly speculative and inefficient
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Last Updated: Feb 22, 2021, 11:34 PM IST
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“Bitcoin is an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions and the amount of energy that s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering, Yellen said at the 2021 DealBook DC Policy Project.
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MUMBAI: The US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen today ripped into the world’s most famous and highest valued cryptocurrency Bitcoin as she termed it “highly speculative” and “inefficient” for transaction.
“Bitcoin is an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions and the amount of energy that s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering, Yellen said at the 2021 DealBook DC Policy Project.
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