| Feature | Bitcoin | Euro |
| Liquid | Has no central authority, can be sold to whomever wants to purchase it with nobody to prevent the transaction. There will never be more than 21M. | Centralised, printed limitlessly, missing the aspect of scarcity, can only be exchanged at a few︀ institutions or at the will of the ECB |
| Secure | Bitcoin has never been hacked. The︁ blockchain is very secure. Custodying (and potentially losing) your assets at external institutions is not︂ a fault of BTC, rather of your personal choices. | ECB website got hacked in the︃ past; you are always reliant on only 1 real clearing system – TARGET which is︄ offered by the ECB. Funds have not yet been lost but reliance on 1 institution︅ for all processing simply cannot be considered security. |
| Safe | Hard wallets, multisig, and so on︆ + new wallets can be created and divided between freely | Held with a limited number︇ of institutions running on clunky core banking systems. Backed by a hardly growing economy (EU)︈ |
| Money laundering | All transactions are public, it would be counterproductive to try to launder money︉ with BTC (unless using mixers, etc. in which case it will just be difficult to︊ exchange/off-ramp the tainted coins) | Easy to let the money of friends pass through, no transparency︋ in the project, fully centralised. |
| Other criminal activities | Literally just decentralised public software with verifiable︌ and fully visible transactions | Literally controlled by suspicious individuals who consistently restrict the freedoms of︍ both individuals and markets |