Some of your response is disingenous. Ransomware has been around a long time, certainly, but adding cryptocurrency payrails has made it far more prevalent, those other methods are much harder and riskier to execute well.

Other parts of your response are irrelevant and nothing to do with cryptocurrency. Because bad laws exist with regards to abortion and sexuality, we should disregard all laws, is that your argument?

And searching for people's experiences on XMR Bazaar is hilarious - "When looking at the platform's homepage statistics and browsing other listings, it seems like the vast majority of offers never see a single trade, even the interesting ones with Escrow enabled. There appear to be significantly more listings than actual completed orders."

So I'm not sure that's an argument for there being general interest in day to day use of cryptocurrency.

Lots of your other claims are easily dismissed - migrant workers are still not really using crypto for remittances, it's estimated at under 3% of the market, and is also rife with predictable problems - https://www.austrac.gov.au/news-and-media/media-release/aust...

There are some interesting edge cases in there, when it comes to Ukraine, certainly. But in general we appear to have the same handful of enthusiasts doing niche things, no general interest, and a lot of dodgy shit.

Fundamentally, I wonder what the rest of the on-chain transaction volume can be, because cryptocurrency has failed to go mainstream as a payment service over the course of 17 years now. Investment/speculation springs to mind as an obvious candidate, so we're effectively back to gambling by proxy at that point.