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All the 'advantages' to crypto seem to me to really be ways of avoiding regulation (or are only advantageous without regulation)
That may be true. To me, however, not all regulation are ethically or morally sound. I hear people in countries with corrupt governments can use these new fangled monies to avoid the regulations/sanctions put on their countries.
The example that comes to my mind was some guy in Turkey buying medicine. I guess Turkey isn't allowed to trade many countries because they government is corrupt? And this person was unable to get the medicine they needed in Turkey. Only way was to in port I guess? So they converted their local turkish currency to something the medicine maker would accept.
I can't really verify such claims but seemed like an alright "breaking of the rules".