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#4 is, or has been, evading laws in China and other countries with tight currency controls. A wealthy Chinese citizen can't necessarily just transfer money to a foreign bank account. But he can purchase crypto mining hardware and electricity for local currency, then sell the resulting coins for convertible hard currency on foreign exchanges.


That's a fair point, that I forgot about.




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