> there's far less legal recourse when that happens with crypto

cryptocurrencies are cash, not credit cards or banks. It's a category that is completely missing from the internet. hence all the drawbacks, but they have their also many uses, most of them hitherto unimplemented (because we never had cash on the net)

> why cryptocurrencies were a better means of rescuing your bolívar

I presume because bitcoin was available where all other currencies weren't