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In a 2013 paper published by David Yernack, the professor of finance at New York University stated that, for any currency to be useful to society, it should be able to function as a medium of exchange, a store of value and a unit of account. At the time, he was using these three criteria to discredit Bitcoin as a feasible currency for everyday use. And there is some merit to this.