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> It's just sad that people only see the bad use cases

Yeah, when 95%+ of the actual things that people use crypto for are those things, it's hard not to. Can you honestly say the "valid" uses for crypto take up more than 5% the total volume in any possible metric you can think of? It's always ransomware, extortion, blackmail, money laundering, drugs, you name it.




One I personally know of - https://cryptoslate.com/another-big-cardano-ada-deal-is-in-t...

There is many other cases for blockchain / crypto technologies far beyond the world of ransomware, extortion, blackmail, money laundering.

> The country will implement a national, blockchain-based student and teacher ID and attainment recording system to digitally verify grades, remotely monitor school performance and boost education and employment nationwide.

> IOHK’s Atala PRISM identity solution will enable authorities to create tamper-proof records of educational performance across 3,500 schools, 5 million students, and 750,000 teachers to pinpoint the locations and causes of educational under-achievement and allocate educational resources effectively.

You've got Walmarts chinese subsidy investing in vechain for logistics:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/walmart-china-subsidiary-team...

These are just two off the top of my head, let alone all the partnerships in the works that we haven't heard about yet.

There's big money getting into crypto whilst simultaniously lots of news and opinions regarding the fact it's used for nefarious acts.


So you're just making up number because they sound right to you? In the future, if you do some simple googling before you join a conversation you'll sound less uninformed.

https://www.newsweek.com/illegal-use-bitcoin-dropped-50-2020...





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