If you think it's a pump and dump, then just don't participate. Stop forcing people to do what you want, stop banning things you don't like. Leave me alone.
No, that's "the market", that's capitalism (computer parts anyway).
Electricity shortages haven't been caused by crypto, and neither is crypto the cause of widespread ransomware. It may be the currency in which ransoms are desired to be paid, but to say they're the cause is misleading.
You could well argue that the fact currency for which payment is demanded is proof of its use-case as a currency / transfer of value. Criminals and the porn industry are always the canaries in the coal mine for "new". That criminals are increasingly using it is evidence of it's success as opposed to evidence of its imminent demise.
Crypto is opt-in.
If you think it's a pump and dump, then just don't participate. Stop forcing people to do what you want, stop banning things you don't like. Leave me alone.