People will see what they want to see. Like one could see Internet as pretty much the sole thing that enables child pornography and causes immeasurable damage.
Also, pretty sure Cash and Banking trumps Bitcoin in all of the following: terrorism, human-trafficking, drugs. Shell companies and weird schemes having been used and are used for a long time.
Final note, I argue that a lot of Venezuelans and Zimbabweans are thankful Bitcoin exists and they are not destroyed by the irresponsibility of governments.
With 20+$ transaction fees nobody is using Bitcoin for day to day expenses.
On net people are also caught through the Banking system, so you need to look at the ratio of net good : net bad. In that context it's hard to see any real value in Bitcoin as it exists today.
Shockingly, it turns out that there are people in Venezuela and Zimbabwe who have demand for unconfiscatable/uninflatable stores of money beyond daily transactions.
It costs more than 40$ to store then retrieve value. That's unfavorable for the vast majority of people in those countries and not cost effective for those with means.
Maybe they are but I've never seen evidence for it, even though there was plenty of evidence for drug traffic. It's easy to make an evidence-free claim that can't be proven false, but that doesn't mean the claim is true.
> Maybe they are but I've never seen evidence for it,
That's how money laundering works. The criminal says he accepts a token as a payment method for an illicit deal, and states where these tokens can be purchased for a fair price. The customers proceed to spend their cash on these tokens to then perform the transaction on the black market. Subsequently the criminals sell these tokens for cash to their next customers. That's how Japanese organized crime launders their earning with pachinko parlours, that's how drug dealers in the US use Tide detergent, and that's the only real-world use of these so called "cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin.
