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Crypto really is a perfect target for this kind of bank robbery, nobody can really feel too bad about it. It adds nothing to society, since you can't even buy anything with it beside drugs and is mostly used for speculation and creating pollution. Also 99% of it is owned by people who already have enough or too much wealth to begin with.
I personally think there could be practical uses for crypto, such as getting around banking monopolies, but it's poorly secured at the moment, and the main usecase being pushed by its users are "get rich quick" schemes often involving fraud.
Its the only way to make anonymous payments (XMR) in a world where everything tracks and spies on you. And it's not only used to buy illegal stuff https://kycnot.me/ . I think of it like the TOR browser. Its great for people who are trying to escape an authoritarian government, but it can be used for bad things as well. But it should exist as I believe privacy is a human right.
Okay I get the hate for capitalism and global warming, but can we stop acting like anonymous payments for drugs and web hosting are a bad thing?
Do you like to get stoned and/or to trip balls? Do you like watching pirated movies? I fucking do at least, I imagine most people do lol.
Your thinking seems to assume the liberal society as static and unchanging and seek to make life within it more tolerable, even with things that are mostly just product of current society and it's ills.
Well yeah in a better society where art was distributed freely and certain recreational substances weren't illegal we wouldn't need them.
That's not the reality we live in today, however, nor will it be for a very long time, unfortunately.