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I mean, yeah, nobody that buys cryptocurrencies expects to buy goods with it, only to sell it to someone else for more money down the road.

A decade ago there was at least Silk Road and similar, offering something tangible in exchange for cryptocurrencies, now the best you can get is a half-assed El Salvador experiment with too many issues to list (but to give two examples, imagine not being able to pay for stuff because AWS's US-East-1 went down, or waking up as a "millionaire" because the app had an integer overflow).



not sure if this is what you're talking about, but there are plenty of darknet markets that use cryptocurrency in very wide use




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