Equating the concept of cryptographic currency with specific implementations such as proof-of-work just shows that you have no idea what you are talking about.

The importance of financial sovereignty can not be understated, whether you understand that or not.

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Eisenstein 17 hours ago | parent [-]

What problems are solved by financial sovereignty? How does crypto solve those problems?

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soulofmischief an hour ago | parent [-]

> What problems are solved by financial sovereignty?

It's right there in the name. Some people believe that their assets should not be freezable or restricted by the whim of their local government-of-the-week. Cryptocurrencies have obviously solved this problem quite well or people wouldn't be complaining about how it has enabled more cybercrime (specialists, include cyber criminals, are often quicker to adopt trends than society at large).

Moving beyond that, the utility of a cryptographic smart contract system paves the way for the future of the internet. People forget computers are less than a hundred years old, and that there are thousands of years of computing ahead of us. The fundamentals will look very different one day.

	▲	Eisenstein 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Inability to evade the justice system is not something that most people would agree is a problem; quite the opposite. The rule of law is the thing that allows you and I to live in such relative splendor. If you remove the ability for courts to operate you will not be in a libertarian utopia, you will be a dystopian free for all where there is no one to uphold contracts or stop people from doing what they like when they have even a bit more power than you.