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points by paxy 2 hours ago | 0 comments

If the use case is tax avoidance, bribes, theft, scams, money laundering, funding terrorism, evading sanctions, ransomware payments, extortion, illegal purchases then crypto is immensely successful.

[–] heed 1 hour ago

these use cases exist with all forms of cash too

[–] conception 54 minutes ago

Whataboutism like this always misses the scale of it. Imagine Breaking Bad but with Crypto - suddenly all of Walt's cash logistics problems go away because doing crime in cash is not the same as crypto - the scale and ease are very different.

[–] latchkey 1 hour ago

not to be whatabout... but... anything of value is used for all that too, in much larger amounts.

it is wild to me that people expect that crypto is supposed to solve a problem that is as old as currency.