Big money, they kind that's to big to fail in other words, has bought into crypto. It's being co-opted. It still has advantages, in that it is "free speech money", for now at least.
BTW, the big exchanges have been co-opted for years, by handing over your data to the IRS.
Interesting shift in the anti-crypto arguments. It's like they forgot they said it was all a ponzi scheme for suckers and worthless and you should buy muh gold and AR-15s. Funny, because anybody with any sense diversifies and has gold/silver/guns/food AND crypto.
And no, I'm not referring to any one person in particular.
That's slave mentality. You give up and let the (((bankers))) fuck you over by default.
It doesn't matter what you use, crypto, gold, bartering... in the end it you making a deal with someone else. And that's freedom by definition. Fuck the banks and barter as much as possible, you're not lost just because you can't solve every transaction via bartering.