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I don't think too many people are concerned with solving the "problem" of facilitating money laundering and other crimes.
Ok in fairness there are problems with traditional bank accounts (e.g. bank transfers have a hilariously bad UX, credit card fees are way too high, people without addresses have difficulty getting them, etc.) But fixing those problems is a political issue not a technical one. People on HN can't really do anything about it.
Besides politicians are working on fixing those problems (slowly). E.g. the EU is capping credit/debit card transaction fees. There's PSD2, central bank digital currencies, etc. etc.
Or do you think I should be able to pay a trucker to block your driveway and honk their horn all night? If so, the way to solve it isn't to let anybody get money for any illegal activity (which is only possible on Bitcoin because regulation hasn't caught up, not for any technical reason) but to make it legal for me to pay the trucker to block your driveway and honk their horn.
That's a big "if", and it's operating under the assumption that it was objectively correct for the Prime Minister of a civilized nation which claims to be a democracy to invoke emergency powers and declare a group of protestors to be criminals, bypassing due process that a civilized nation which claims to be a democracy should be using to reach that conclusion.
Is that the kind of democracy you'd like to live in, where any group of people can suddenly be declared criminals without due process?
No. The solution is to use democracy to require due process.
Bitcoin remains the wrong solution for both the reasons I gave in my GP comment. It (1) doesn't get around financial regulations that can freeze access to real money and (2) even if it could, allowing funding of any type of crime is the wrong solution.
Finally, even in this case, the truckers were given access to their bank accounts right after they left because their money can't be seized without due process, which won't happen for this guy whose Bitcoins were stolen. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canada-unlocks-vast-majo...