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by raesene9 2961 days ago
Indeed, that's a theoretical benefit of the cryptocurrency world over fiat. However, in practice, what seems to be happening is that the decentralized aspect is sacrificed in the rush to make money, which promotes the use of trusted third party exchanges.

In reality, all that cryptocurrencies are doing is, partially, replacing governments and banks with unregulated companies who are still quite likely to be subject to government actions.