>being able to trade with whoever you want, regardless of jurisdiction That has absolutely nothing to do with blockchains at all. Blockchains do not enable tha

>being able to trade with whoever you want, regardless of jurisdiction That has absolutely nothing to do with blockchains at all. Blockchains do not enable that, they have never enabled it. You can indeed build a service that does that with blockchains, but you can also build it without them. Black markets existed for a very long time before bitcoin was created. If you're suggesting there is value in having totally unregulated unrestricted trade, then no, I would still have to say I don't see value in that. There is actually negative value in allowing people to trade illegal weapons, or trafficked humans, or counterfeit products, or contract murders, or tainted animal products that infect humanity with a plague, and so on... you get the picture. These things are actively destructive to a functioning society and market. It's even more of a privileged take to try and suggest that these things don't exist or won't happen if everyone can just trade whatever they want without any restrictions whatsoever. Edit: I'm thinking about this a bit, and it's really insulting to be told I have a privileged take when in the past several years myself and my family members and friends have been actively harmed by ransomware and crypto scams. It's not nice to kick someone when they're down. In my case, the people evading jurisdictions were doing it entirely to harm me. I'm really not seeing how I'm supposed to be the privileged one.