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This is true in El Salvador, where bitcoin has the explicit endorsement of the state.

Elsewhere, other than dark web drugs and jpegs of apes, what exactly are people buying with crypto?

Just because some (most?) people now in most places may buy only drugs/nfts (and whatever real or imagined things of contested value [eye of the beholder…]) hasn't stopped me personally from accepting eth/btc for dev work and swapping for cash in my local jurisdiction(s) (or in some cases, paying in stablecoins [dai] for food from a friend who has a few of their own stores accepted it).

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