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> It is useful to overcome censorship, inflation and money transfers

No it's not. It cannot overcome any of these, and the constant nagging to the opposite is a big part of the scam. The problems in question are political and cannot be solved outside of the regulatory framework.

> without relying on third parties (or relying on burocratic, traditionally greedy and ancient parties).

Well, the non-traditionally greedy happen to be much greedier and a mere tool in the hands of the "traditional and ancient parties". A bunch of politicians and those connected to them are the ones who benefit the most from crypto scams, guess what's going to happen when the music stops and their profits dry up.

> I see a trend that all privacy focused projects have this bad press always - Cryptocoins, GrapheneOS, Tor

Because they are designed to accommodate scams under the guise of privacy - I'd exclude GrapheneOS from that list though, it's very different, it doesn't have a bad name among the grassroots and including in this list is nonsensical.



> No it's not. It cannot overcome any of these, and the constant nagging to the opposite is a big part of the scam.

The only person here who is running a scam here is you with your blatant disinformation and fundamental ignorance. Just because you cannot do basic tasks doesn't mean that others can't either.


> The only person here who is running a scam here is you

A naked claim that lacks elementary support, like motives.

> with your blatant disinformation and fundamental ignorance.

Another evidence-free claim. I'm simply describing the state of affairs as they are in real life, the empirical evidence is fully in agreement with my writing.

> Just because you cannot do basic tasks doesn't mean that others can't either.

Same old, same old, you know nothing about me but continue to throw wild claims at the wall.

FYI, I'm quite familiar with all sides of crypto, it's the crypto-bros who are so blinded by greed that end up with absolutely no clue about what they are doing on social level.


You're the one who said cryptocurrency cannot overcome censorship and do money transfers. You might as well have said that humans cannot breathe oxygen. I don't need to prove self-evident truths. By rejecting obvious truths, you are operating in extremely bad faith.


> 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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