[spiorf]

Exactly. Since making money is the real point, someone bypassed all the bullshit about purpose and literally made a new form of money with properties different from any form of money before. You can like it or not, but it is not going to just stop existing.

[netcan]

Sure. That wasn't a criticism of crypto.

Whether one of those properties is "freedom from regulation" is yet to be seen. I personally quite doubt it.