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Its just a big money laundering scheme
And/or a fucking casino
A bad one, at that. I think the reason many governments are going with it is because it's far less untraceable than some idiots like to believe.
So you are saying more than the population of the United States as money launderers because somewhere between 400 and 550 million people use cryptocurrency. I kind of doubt they are all money launderers.
Why not? Couldn't crypto be enabling money laundering on a massive scale?
This one is a bit old, but... https://medium.com/@MUBC/privacy-coins-debunking-myths-about-illegal-usage-9150c49a31a7
I can't find it at the moment, but I saw a report for 2023 or 2024 that something like 0.4% of all crypto transactions are illicit activity. So that would mean roughly 1.9 million people use it for such activity, which is a far cry from 400 million.