> it's not useful for anything else other than grifting. I've paid for my domains and vps with crypto, I can pay for my search engine, send donations to non-pr

> it's not useful for anything else other than grifting. I've paid for my domains and vps with crypto, I can pay for my search engine, send donations to non-profits I support, so there's your use case. I don't even have to hand over my personal banking information, so no worrying about data breaches, another use case! I'm sure you would consider paying for a legal service to be a legitimate use case. > monkey jpeg brigade Whoa, name calling, well that always shows the strength of your argument. > who feel that the artificial demand from criminals laundering money and posing as legitimate crypto investors is a feature Didn't realize I was a NFT supporter by calling out your contradiction. Oh, and a straw man too, always nice to see. Also, technology can be abused? Who would have thought? Its a shame that primary users are the criminal masterminds who've apparently become art connoisseurs of monkey jpegs. I don't seem to remember supporting "laundering money". Do you mean in the same way that banking at HSBC, BYN Mellon, Deutsche, Swedbank, Danke and others is supporting money laundering? [1-6] Or how banking with BoA is supporting fraud? [7] Although its nice to see that you believe in "legitimate crypto investors". 1: https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/bnp-paribas-pleads-guilty-in-sanctions-case/ https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/... 2:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/swedbank-reportedly-behind-4-3-billion-in-suspicious-transfers#xj4y7vzkg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/swedbank-... 3:https://www.acfcs.org/news/419424/Danske-Bank-reveals-Estonian-branch-may-have-laundered-230-billion-as-CEO-steps-down.htm https://www.acfcs.org/news/419424/Danske-Bank-reveals-Estoni... 4: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/business/bank-settles-us-inquiry-into-money-laundering.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/business/bank-settles-us-... 5:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-bank-faces-action-over-20bn-russian-money-laundering-scheme https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba... 6:https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-news-for-jan-29-hsbcs-money-laundering-scandal-hbc-scbff-ing-cs-rbs0129.aspx https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n... 7:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bank-america-pay-1665-billion-historic-justice-department-settlement-financial-fraud-leading https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bank-america-pay-1665-billion... > If the only ones using it are criminals, then it's no longer useful even for them, because the whole point is to claim legitimate crypto profits. Uh, sure? Sounds good man.