Mostly agree. It's funny that HN of all places doesn't seem to get this. I wouldn't go as far as to say that crypto wants to be illegal - more that it's indiff

Mostly agree. It's funny that HN of all places doesn't seem to get this. I wouldn't go as far as to say that crypto wants to be illegal - more that it's indifferent. The entire point of something like Bitcoin is that it works regardless of legislation. In the existing world, a law could be passed to prevent a person from giving their neighbour a $10 bill, but they can still physically do it, and will do. That's exactly the problem that systems like Bitcoin attempt to solve - censorship free transfers, which are becoming harder and harder to do via normal banking. Centralized exchanges are normal banking. They are subject to all of the same constraints. The only people that care about them existing are grifters.