By that logic the US government would be liable for crimes committed using USD.
Are you saying the gas station owner has some liability?
Are you saying the gas station owner has some liability?
>Are you saying the gas station owner has some liability?
Sometimes, yes, helping create a situation makes you partially liable even if the individual pieces of what you're doing are legal.
I do however agree with your post on general. Bitcoin (and all other crypto currencies) is used for money laundering, speculation, doing things that would be illegal with properly regulated assets and for buying illegal things like drugs.
It's been around for quite some time, if there were more use cases we would already know by now. There has also been no substantial development since Etherium "let's make it turing complete because what could go wrong lol" and the world pretty much agreed that it's a bad idea to couple money transfer logic to publicly available code while a bug can make you lose all your money connected to that logic.
It's not like it wouldn't be possible in general. But nobody cares and obviously nobody sees how serious development would lead to anything useful (very few counter-examples like the people that created Monero).
Private blockchains between semi-trusted entities that need to keep accounts between them are great. It really is just a shared ledger, a shared database with the mechanics for keeping accounts in a way that's mathematically trusted so no one party has to own the ledger. This is good for banks settling accounts between each other which they very have to do nightly for a variety of reasons.