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by candiodari 3118 days ago
I feel like this might even be true now, but you forget 1) and 2) from a historical perspective.

1) interesting solution to the double spend problem, and therefore usable as a currency (just like gold coins, apple macbooks, rolexes, ... are usable as a currency)

2) The government "controls" spending on drugs by checking the payments made to suspicious parties, not by checking the contents of packages coming in. In other words, bitcoin is a "legal hack" that basically allows you to get heroin delivered to your door like an Amazon package. Or guns. Or poison. Or illegal medicine/performance enhancing drugs/...

3) untraceable or less traceable payments. Which are basically allowing for criminal acts to occur on more scalable levels like hostage taking, for computers and of course for real. [1]

1 is probably played out at this point, but 2 is very much alive. (e.g. [2])

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/12/nhs-hit-major-cyb...

[2] https://cointelegraph.com/news/bulgaria-seizes-enough-bitcoi...

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>Or illegal medicine/performance enhancing drugs/...

Like overpriced medication that is unaffordable in the US.

Just to add to your '2)', some of those drugs maybe illegal in US, but legal in other countries, so you could probably now get cheaper medicine which isn't FDA approved.