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trollbridge 60 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place

Cash, at a pharmacy.

Crypto doesn’t make that any better.

Neither does online ordering. Online orders have to have a degree of KYC.

inigyou 60 days ago [–]

It's illegal to sell abortion pills. What now?

trollbridge 60 days ago | [–]

Cash seems to have functioned pretty well for the illegal drug trade for a long time.

What’s your point? Crypto somehow facilitates illegal financial transactions? That is not going to make normal people eager to use it.

inigyou 60 days ago | | [–]

At least not until normal things become crimes.

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