Exchanging BTC for cash, gold or diamonds is much more difficult ( and there's a higher perceived danger ). How would you go about trading your BTC for diamonds?
Btc-to-diamonds.website ? If it's online, it's tracked by 5 eyes
Tor? 5-eyes is even more interested
Craigslist? Great, go meet a stranger in a parking lot and gamble that you don't get robbed.
The comment is general but it's right. As it & other posters in this thread have pointed out - existing power structures control the world. The internet does not exist in an imaginary "stateless" vacuum.
Btc-to-diamonds.website ? If it's online, it's tracked by 5 eyes Tor? 5-eyes is even more interested Craigslist? Great, go meet a stranger in a parking lot and gamble that you don't get robbed.
The comment is general but it's right. As it & other posters in this thread have pointed out - existing power structures control the world. The internet does not exist in an imaginary "stateless" vacuum.