You can’t cry for decentralization and then cry that Russia is leaning on crypto to bypass sanctions.

It just doesn’t work like that. It’s either decentralized or it’s not. You don’t get to pick and choose when or why it’s decentralized just because you don’t agree with the use case.

Obviously, it sucks that psychopaths take to crypto to hide illicit activity, and that it gets publicized in a way that paints crypto in a bad light. But if we want crypto to maintain its autonomous decentralization, we have to accept all of its shortcomings.

Crypto scares the shit out of the powers that be for all the reasons we love it. It gives power back to the people, unfortunately there's bad people out there and fear sells, so the media likes to focus on it.

I don’t agree with anything that’s going on in Russia right now, but I do believe in crypto maintaining its decentralization.