Part of the reason that the US Government has been trying for the last few years to squash it is because it's threatening the US Dollar's hegemony in, cough, in

Part of the reason that the US Government has been trying for the last few years to squash it is because it's threatening the US Dollar's hegemony in, cough, international trade. If you're buying illegal black market shit, you're darn well gonna do it using the Red, White, and Blue's Green! This is also proof of cryptocurrency's use-case as a method of value transfer (ie. currency). Crime and porn are the traditional testing grounds for new disruptive technologies. I remember this thing called the Internet...