Any system that enables payments uncoupled from identity - or customer service - over the internet is going to be prone to abuse. Bad money pushes out good mone

Any system that enables payments uncoupled from identity - or customer service - over the internet is going to be prone to abuse. Bad money pushes out good money, and paying with someone else's electric bill is always cheaper than paying with yours. Which is to say that pretty much any form of cryptocurrency is likely to stay abuse-prone. Practically speaking, the amount of electric bill you'd have to pay to make up the costs of what your currently pay for with data would almost certainly be shocking. I can't imagine that it costs anything like $5 to mine $5 worth of Monero on your average computer in the first world. And that would be just enough to pay for Gmail, never mind everything else!