How about good old working for it. I’ve received payment in Bitcoin and paid employees in cryptocurrency.
The thing about fungible assets is that they are neutral money. They aren’t “blood money”, they are simply blind to whatever they are used for. At least they aren’t finding wars like the dollar.
> At least they aren’t finding wars like the dollar.
Plenty of the drug trade BTCs goes to funding the cartels in Columbia and Mexico actually.
Source: Tried buying BTC on LocalBitcoins once and 9/10 of the US sellers were asking to send Western Union to Columbia. Meanwhile, we know from the government that a lot of the BTC payments on dark markets end up in the drug dealer hands in Columbia. So, apparently they sell the drug BTC back to us at the higher exchange rate for USD so we can give it back to them for drugs, back and forth....
Which are only economically viable due to the US "war on drugs" and draconian prohibitions, which we've managed to export across the world via our foreign policy. Which brings us full circle back to the US dollar funding wars.
It's as though unethical people exist who are willing to do bad things with whatever they have to hand if it turns a profit.
You write like illicit drugs is the only product made in Colombia. What about coffee, flowers, chocolate, bananas, palm oil, unrefined oil, and carbon? I feel personally offended.
However, just for clarification, BTC has been in the news very often during the last year. And many people are investing heavily in BTC since then. People who would otherwise never hear of BTC before.
The thing about fungible assets is that they are neutral money. They aren’t “blood money”, they are simply blind to whatever they are used for. At least they aren’t finding wars like the dollar.