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by CryptoPunk 1847 days ago
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...