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## Evaluation: Largely false (high confidence)
# Evaluation: Largely false (high confidence)
## Examples of the claim being made
# Examples of the claim being made
BLOCKDATA (2019) ‘Blockchain is disrupting the $700 billion remittance industry’, _Medium_, 7 March. Available at: [https://medium.com/@blockdata_tech/blockchain-is-disrupting-the-700-billion-remittance-industry-b79a01a95a10](https://medium.com/@blockdata_tech/blockchain-is-disrupting-the-700-billion-remittance-industry-b79a01a95a10) (Accessed: 13 September 2022).
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Nakamoto, S. (no date) *Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System*. Available at: https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual-national-training-seminar/2018/Emerging_Tech_Bitcoin_Crypto.pdf
# Full Analysis
## Claim Steel-Manned
### Subclaim 1: Crypto can provide payment and remittance services by virtue of fulfilling the functions of a currency.
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Crypto is not technologically capable of competing with existing payment rails, and the level of advancement needed to do so is far from a sure thing. In fact, crypto is not up to acting as a currency at all. It does appear to serve these functions in practice in developing nations with non-functional financial systems, as the example of Ukraine shows. However this should be taken less as a testament to the potential of crypto and more as a sign that political and economic support is needed in these cases. And, being better than poorly functioning legacy systems is not what the spirit of this claim gestures to.
## Related Content
# Related Content
### Deep dives
## Deep dives
* [Deep Dive: Fintech Incrementalism And Responsible Innovation ](/notes/fintech-incrementalism-and-responsible-innovation)
* [A Macroeconomics Perspective on Cryptocurrencies ](/notes/a-macroeconomics-perspective-on-cryptocurrencies)
### FAQs
## FAQs
* [Is an unregulated transnational payment system desirable?](/claims/is-transnational-payment)
* [It Bitcoin a currency?](/claims/is-bitcoin-currency)
* [Is Web3 a means to rebuild the global financial system?](/claims/is-new-financial-system)
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* [Are crypto assets a hedge against inflation?](/claims/is-hedge-inflation)
### Concepts
## Concepts
* [Money](/concepts/money)
* [Currency](/concepts/currency)
* [Crypto exchanges](/concepts/crypto-exchange)
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* [US dollar](/concepts/dollar)
## References
# References
Amato, M. and Fantacci, L. (2020) _A Fistful of Bitcoins: The Risks and Opportunities of Virtual Currencies_. Bocconi University Press. Available at: [https://www.egeaeditore.it/ita/prodotti/economia/a-fistful-of-bitcoins.aspx](https://www.egeaeditore.it/ita/prodotti/economia/a-fistful-of-bitcoins.aspx).