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The black market for pharmaceuticals are greatly touched by cryptocurrency, and that's certainly the "real economy".

It's deeply harmful, but it is part of the real economy

This is a good point. Black markets are indeed part of the real economy, whether governments and people like it or not. That being said, regulation is inevitible.

You can see the glass half full or half empty. I see it half full.

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