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by kemonocode 1853 days ago
All those things were already illegal (worse yet, immoral) whether you pay for them in fiat or in Bitcoin. That's a false equivalence.
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That's the whole point. They're illegal/immoral, but decentralization means you can't mitigate them despite that.

Tell me when is the last time a drug dealer used a wire transfer with reason "for the cocain"? Oh they don't do that. I wonder why.

Drug dealers use wire transfers all the time.

And there are benefits to being able to stop governments from controlling people. I would say the benefits of this far outweigh giving the state an even greater power advantage over non-state actors that may be acting maliciously.

So for me, yes, decentralization please.