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Cash requires no such thing. Neither do easily available gift cards. There is a little more friction involved.

As a merchant I have zero desire to sell online to an anonymous buyer because the fraud risk is too high. I have to know whom I’m shipping to and how they’re paying for it.

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That is by design and is a good thing to everyone except cartels and communist governments.
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What about people wanting to buy abortion pills?
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Cash, at a pharmacy.

Crypto doesn’t make that any better.

Neither does online ordering. Online orders have to have a degree of KYC.

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