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Crime begets crime

Buying stablecoins is not illegal though.

It probably is in countries with capital controls, if you use it as a means to circumvent those capital controls.

as if capital controls are not a crime in of themselves...

"crime" here means that crypto incentivizes crime itself, not that it is "illegal" in the country: pump and dump, scams, cybercrime, tax evasion, etc.

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