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> You're the one who said cryptocurrency cannot overcome censorship and do money transfers.

And you're the one who can't reason.

In order to use crypto, you have to submit your ID with a picture to an entity subject to banking regulations. Thus the anonymity is lost at the edge and from there the vast majority of people can be censored and their transactions suppressed by the banking system - the term is de-banking. They are subject to losing their jobs too plus a number of other strings attached to every law-abiding person.

Criminals on the other hand, don't care about the law, have no jobs and must avoid the banking system so the crypto arrangement works well for them, it also works for corrupt officials, be them private or public.

Crypto is almost exclusively a tool of crime and corruption. That's its social role in the real world. Just because crypto allows a criminal here and a criminal there to avoid censorship, doesn't mean that censorship is a solved problem on social level - not only it's unsolved, you added a criminal problem on top of it.

I don't think you can understand that though, greed impairs the mind and those obsessed with crypto are the living examples of it.





There exist crypto exchange networks that interface with governmental fiat and do not require any KYC. Also, there are mixers and privacy-coins that break linkage. Where there is a will, there is a way.

As for criminals vs others, that again is your own limited viewpoint, with no relation to the broader truth.

It's really not about greed. It's about protection from the government and the whims of banks.




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