> Ideally you would just use plain old US dollars. But since it's crypto, you can't. Because unbanked cryptocurrency exchanges are essentially in the business

> Ideally you would just use plain old US dollars. But since it's crypto, you can't. Because unbanked cryptocurrency exchanges are essentially in the business of money laundering. A service that facilitates illegal transactions has obvious value to any libertarian or criminal, but I’m not sure that counts as “providing real value to people.”