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I'm gonna voice a rather unpopular opinion.

The only thing crypto is good for:

- earning money by spinning up GPU fans

- playing the crypto stock market

- money laundering

- buying weapons

- buying drugs

- buying humans

I'm glad that the EU is at least trying to put an end to this: https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/07/21/eu-will-make-bitcoi...



-money transfer and storage for the structurally unbanked.

Anonymous crypto wallets cannot be banned and to "taint" any bitcoin that has passed through anonymous wallets would mean every single bitcoin would be tainted. It would be like trying to ban euros used for drug trade; if it were done all euros would seize to circulate.




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