[phainopepla]

What it seems you're arguing is that the use-case that justifies NFTs is facilitating criminal behavior. (In this case, it's criminal behavior that you or I may deem socially or politically beneficial, but nonetheless criminal.)

A decade on from The Silk Road and this is where we continue to be with crypto.

[yucky]

What if I'm a guy who is really good at picking the winner (and spread) on a football game? Or the movement of a stock or other financial instrument within a specified period of time?

Now what if I'd like to sell access to that genius on a marketplace, locked behind an NFT, bid on, tracked and tied to a leaderboard etc. Now let's say I have generated Token X with the value of "TSLA Feb. 29 2022", inside of which lies the closing price of Tesla on that date, with the value being tied to my previous performance on similar picks...

[angio]

It's not illegal for the journalist to receive donations and sell their work.

[phainopepla]

By specifying Crimea and ruling out existing payment structures for journalism based around traditional banking like Substack or Patreon, you imply that the journalist in question is in some way committing an illegal or transgressive act that requires a degree of anonymity from governmental authorities.

[angio]

No, companies based in the US or that want to do business in the US are the ones that cannot serve the Crimea-based journalist, but the journalist is in the clear.