> Why is "useful for illegal transactions" supposed to be a bad thing, when these illegal transactions are illegal for extremely dubious reasons? Straw man bas

> Why is "useful for illegal transactions" supposed to be a bad thing, when these illegal transactions are illegal for extremely dubious reasons? Straw man based on a made-up quote. The article does not mention "useful for illegal transactions" anywhere. The article mentions legal transactions in only two occasions: - "Bitcoin is rarely used for legal transactions" - "Bitcoin has never been used to any significant extent for legal real-world transactions." If you feel the need to refute what the ECB claimed, show where bitcoing is used in any significant extent for legal real-world transactions. Not even El Salvador, with their push to adopt Bitcoin as the nation's official currency, Bitcoin transactions saw any significant uptake.