I guess there is no convincing you. You seem very set in your ways. Edit: but I’ll try…
Let’s forget about “crypto” and just discuss Bitcoin and Ethereum. Those are the only two that have real value.
Ethereum switched to proof of stake, which dropped the energy used by the network by 99%. Bitcoin is still proof of work, but we waste electricity on lots of silly things. A lot of bitcoin mining is already done with renewable sources of energy.
There are a lot of cryptos that are used for pump and dumps. That’s doesn’t take away from the utility and value of crypto that isn’t used for that.
Blockchains are public ledgers. They are terrible for avoiding taxes!
There is a lot of overlap in the culture of distributed centralization and federated systems. Many people that are into Bitcoin are really into the fediverse too.
There may be “good” reasons to block someone from making transactions, but who gets to decide what is good? like you said, sex workers should have access to financial transactions just as much as any other worker.
I use Bitcoin and Ethereum to store my wealth. From my perspective it solves the problem of needing to trust someone else with my money. It’s not unheard of for banks to fail and take your money. Look at the debt crisis that happened in Cypress and Greece. They just took money from people’s bank accounts. en.wikipedia.org/…/2012–2013_Cypriot_financial_cr…en.wikipedia.org/…/Greek_government-debt_crisis