When i look around at all the positive innovations cryptocurrency has failed to deliver, it really does seem like they invented a currency exclusively useful for doing crimes.
This is the opinion of Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman too, in his post Crypto is for Criming
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-for-criming.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman famously estimated in 1998 that the impact of the Internet on the economy will be no more than that of the fax machine.