Crypto"currencies" are not the only way to store value when an official currency is failing: people who want their savings preserved can get USD, EUR, gold.
Crypto *is* volatile and wasteful compared to any of those.
It is actually less harder than FIAT (except Monero), if you want to track spending of corrupt politicians, not fungible cryptocurrencies as BTC are great tools.
Crypto *is* volatile and wasteful compared to any of those.