Crypto bros telling us how great it is for the poor people in such countries to get money. Now we see the downside of this as well. Oligarchs protecting their assets as well.
Leveled playfield.
No added benefit from crypto anymore.
And yes right now for me, sanctioning is more critical to me to increase the pressure on Russia to stop killing people than Russian people being able to use crypto.
The more that financial repression and "cancellations" become mainstream, the more obvious crypto's use cases become - whether or not you support the individual examples of repression.
How much is a human life worth to you? How much are we all responsible for everything and nothing?
Collective punishment? It's just that there are limitations on tools global politics can use.
Independently of this perhaps my expectations on fellow humans are different than yours.
And at the end of the day crypto can be blocked and will be blocked sooner than later. every event like this which circumvent global mechanism will be worked against
No, this is a person sending money to their brother, who is presumably not engaged in "waging war."