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I think I offered a pretty concrete example of a real situation and how the imagined utility of crypto magic isn't actually all that helpful.

Now, perhaps what you're suggesting is "I've got millions of units of money that I've acquired through locally illegal means and I want to transport that money someplace else and I don't feel like renting a private airplane and diamonds up my prison wallet are uncomfortable and I don't want to pay taxes or otherwise explain why I have a brand new S class I paid cash for." then yes, I'll accept that there is some grey area where crypto has a place (to explicitly work around legal regimes I dislike, would like to degrade further, and don't feel like dealing with).

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How is the view from your imaginary moral high horse?

Try this: you are a paralegal working with translating/notarizing documents from Spanish to English in Argentina. You have clients in the UK - a wine importer. You send an invoice for your work, it's circa GBP 2000, about 4 million Argentinian Pesos.

Then, you tell them about the payment options:

- pay via SWIFT. will have a 30% surcharge to account for difference between the "official" exchange rate and the "black" one, and the fact that it takes at least 7 days to clear.

- pay via cryptocurrency, which can be settled immediately, you can convert to Pesos faster and at a better rate than the official one.

Are you saying that the only correct moral action is to go through the banks?

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