Crytocurrencies provide people with the ability to execute censorship resistant transactions.
Who else would want to send censorship resistant transactions other than people who are at risk of being censored?
The modern era is still relatively free of censorship, and thus the people using cryto are pretty far on the shady end of the spectrum.
But trend toward censorship in the modern era, is worrisome. Perhaps a whole lot more people are going to have to protect themselves against censorship in the future. And by censorship, I mean censorship done by ANYONE, including both the government, AND ultra powerful corporations that may as well be the government.
"The modern era is still relatively free of censorship"
Don't take this as an insult but what an ignorant comment... Financial, political & journalistic censorship (all inter-related) is rampant. Start by reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press
Who else would want to send censorship resistant transactions other than people who are at risk of being censored?
The modern era is still relatively free of censorship, and thus the people using cryto are pretty far on the shady end of the spectrum.
But trend toward censorship in the modern era, is worrisome. Perhaps a whole lot more people are going to have to protect themselves against censorship in the future. And by censorship, I mean censorship done by ANYONE, including both the government, AND ultra powerful corporations that may as well be the government.