OP, how do you propose that Bitcoin be shut down? How would you go about it?
The 'drugs' traded on the 'deeply depraved' marketplaces save lives and make other lives kind of comfortable even amid a chronic disease. Yes, I mean drugs which should, but for various reasons are not, available in the pharmacy. That's a real use case, do you think it's 'detrimental to society'? Because ill people get a chance to live again? Great thinking.
And to top it all off, your post is worded in a purposely confrontational and inflammatory way. It's a flame-bait, and it got flagged and removed from the site because of this. What do you gain by presenting a biased, unoriginal post to the crowd here? If you think you just made a "net benefit for society" - think again. In solitude, please.
You call my post bias and unoriginal, which you can do. But can you answer the core question I pose?
And please not with esoteric examples of availability of medicine for chronic diseases which to me raises the question: is that all you can come up with?
> is that all you can come up with?
No, but it's enough to falsify your claims. There are people who get tremendous value out of the 'depraved markets'. That's it.
EDIT: typo.
That kind of example doesn't seem to support the whole crytocurrency stuff with all it's downsides in any way.
If that's all you can come up with, all the more reason to shut it down (hypothetically).
And who other than the people is qualified to report whether people benefitted?
> And getting medicine through the dark markets is shady as fuck.
Are you a Christian? I'm amazed and ask seriously, because I can't imagine much of anything else that would make you spew this much of a nonsense with this much conviction.
dang, yes, I know, this is the last post from me, sorry.