[triceratops]

Yeah I paraphrased. But was it really so wrong? (Btw I didn't downvote you if it matters)

"KYC is useless" is a reasonable summary of "KYC exists to make life hard. It solves no real problems".

And is there a big difference between "Crypto is useless" and "crypto does not solve any real world problems"?

[latchkey]

Paraphrasing on absolutist positions seems pretty wrong to me if that is the point you're trying to make.

I could have left the KYC portion off of the original comment and thus this one point feels like a festering wound for a meth addict (anti-crypto HN) to pick at instead of being focused on the larger message.

Regardless, we are off in the weeds debating about the word "useless" (a word neither the OP nor I never used), when it really has nothing to do with my original post at this point. This isn't interesting to discuss, so I'll stop now. Thanks.