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by welly 1848 days ago
If we ban cars, we'll see less deaths on the road too.
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Some of us would quite like to see the end of the personal motorcar.
Cars are generally useful and enable modern life.

Crypto has yet to prove that level of value.

And rational approach is minimize the amount of cars on the road. Contrary to cryptos, there are certain applications where cars don't have real alternatives - like deliveries to small shops and restaurants, or for tradesman.
Cryptocurrency is an alternative to centralized parties that abuse their monopoly positions as payment platforms while non-profit/government sectors are too inept to provide a public payment option.

Here's a case of PayPal closing the account of a user because they used it to fund servers to run TOR nodes:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/paypal-shuts-down-long...