[tom-_-]

What you described as the ideals of crypto maximalists largely applies to fiat currency. Individuals "own" their own USD, are able to share and use as they please within the bounds of legality.

Not sure what it means to "censor" currency, but if they consider governments' economic stewardship to be foolhardy, why would they consider the wisdom of miners, programmers or the crypto's regulating body to be superior?

What's left is the question of legality, anonymity lets users skirt the government's laws, which has value to basically criminals.

[puranjay]

> anonymity lets users skirt the government's laws, which has value to basically criminals

And dissidents and marginalized communities and activists and anyone living in an oppressive state.

Are you really trying to argue that anonymity is only valuable to criminals?

[tom-_-]

What value does crypto provide to those groups you mentioned, that cash cannot provide? If the answer is, it allows them to break laws then yes by definition they are criminals. You can argue that some of these laws are unjust, sure but that's tangential to the question. The value of crypto by volume is largely for speculative bets and criminal activities.