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It's not just bitcoin, but cryptocurrency in general enables decentralized transactions and some of them even maintain anonymity for users.
Why not go further and imagine a world without money, crypto or fiat?
Bitcoin doesn't give power to you or me, it just transfers the power from one set of bastards to another, because it's STILL MONEY and money and always be a tool for exploitation.
until you need actual cash, in which case you give your identity to any reputable exchange.
also, that anonymity is what cash is for.
Crytpo is a currency of crime and corruption. The biggest problem Pablo Escobar had was moving around thousands of pounds of money, a lot of which he had to bury and was eaten by rats. Cash is hard to launder. Ryan Wedding grew his empire very fast using crypto across borders.
The only advantage of crypto is that it doesn't physically exist, and no one has to report sending or receiving large quantities of it, unlike cash.
$1M in 20s is 40-50kg of weight. Hard to smuggle up your ass.
Crypto can replace cash if more people use it.
Everyone that doesn't benefit from the surveillance state.
How are you going to exchange cash across vast distances quickly and anonymously?
sure it can replace cash, but at the cost of mining, and actual usability. anything can replace cash. doesn't mean it will.
again, this is still possible with existing systems of cash, so I don't know who and how will benefit more from crypto.
how often do people actually do that? the most that happens is when my aunt mails me... get this... cash.
Banks cause way more pollution and suffering. And pyramid schemes. Crypto isn't even close.
Sauce?
nice personal attack instead of giving advantages to cash.....
Criminals and tax evaders