with a crypto wallet you're not relying on a bank that can control when you get access to your assets. but there sure are a lot of downsides to crypto as well.

I once tried crypto, I added 10/15€ to the wallet, I couldn't use them for transactions anymore cuz i needed to add at least 20€, i honestly just left those money there and ignored cryptos ever since; it was not told to me anywhere that i needed at least 20€ for transaction, i expect them to hide even more important infoes about how the shit works if they do not bother to let me know such stuff :/

Edit: i used USDC i think

And with those crypto headlines, how safe is it to really use crypto for transactions? I think I'd rather just swap a handful of cash at this point.

Hey, you can buy plenty of stuff besides just drugs (illegal weapons, human organs, enslaved/trafficked people)

i have a few dollars in BLOX, pays a weekly income

https://nicholasx.com/blox/

We'll see.

As to crypto, lots of folks outside the monetary system use it, I r ever lot of Venzualans under Maduro were using it to buy groceries etc Feamily overseas couldn't get remittances to them (because e of the US) , so they used crypto. Similarly a lot of Africans who were having their currency devalue hand over foot oved some into Crypto.

I'm sure Cuba uses it because... what choice ?

Here's a practical use case: Sending money internationally.

I wanted to send some money to a friend in another country once, and it was difficult to find some service that could do it without some crazy expensive fee.

I've sent money to other countries before, but for this particular country, it was different. Maybe it's some (dis)agreements between our governments, banks, etc. Maybe it would require the service to send it through another country or two, or convert it to some other intermediate currencies. I didn't look into it, so I don't really know why it was so expensive.

Anyway, it was much simpler and cheaper to just send crypto instead.

There were also environmental concerns, but AI seems to have taken that spotlight

i don't know about this Treasury.

Found the FBI agent.