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It is being steadily accumulated by ETFs and other institutional custodians who expressly prevent and prohibit its use as a P2P payments protocol.
Within another 3-5 years most Bitcoin will be held by US institutions who hold it as a speculative commodity, not as a MoE.
MoE use of Bitcoin is effectively obstructed to the point where it could not facilitate any significant trade volumes anywhere.
Bitcoin has been and is being captured and controlled as a speculative commodity that does not threaten fiats MoE hegemony.
Scale and liquidity is required for trade payments- this is what has given the USD dominance- this is what has held back Euro bond markets- Bitcoins scale and liquidity are simply inadequate to enable any serious scale trade payments.