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With time it turned out the main use of cryptocurrencies (apart from speculation) is for illegal transactions, as they don’t normally manage to compete with legal transactions, but provide a way to avoid law enforcement while staying pseudonymous or anonymous when receiving or sending money.

By supporting cryptocurrency infrastructure you are indirectly supporting those illegal transactions. Now you could say the same e.g. for bakers that they also feed war criminals or whatever, however bread’s main use isn’t feeding criminals. It’s much more akin to providing money laundering services.



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