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If the criminals in these examples are fundamentally enabled by smartphones are these plain old crimes or smartphone crimes? Will governments ever allow such devices and services?

Crime is as old as humanity, addressed well enough by humanity, nothing to see here but FUD, move along. Then there is the Crime Against Humanity of Governments trying to shutdown Human Freedom. History is rife with them, including all in existance today. Governments have always treated crypto as the conspirator party to Freedom, and thus tried to ban, jail, and kill crypto itself. Cypherpunks push and embed Freedom... strong crypto... harder, faster, farther, deeper, better, to help outpace and shutdown such would be sources of censorship. The actors and forces against freedom are substantial, and the window for freedom is not as wide or long as people think. Distributed private uncensorable permissionless unstoppable anonymous untraceable fungible digital p2p money and crosscoin DEX, etc... that real OG cryptocurrency... *IS* freedom, for you and the world, and not just in the monetary sense. That is why Gov and Corp are universally against it. GovCorp will never build the real shit, so just ignore their distractions, their hype, their job offers, leave them to their Fiat clones, ultimately there is no innovation, no change, no revolutionary Freedom there, no reason to take part in any of that. Cypherpunks job is to design, build, deploy, push, adopt, and use the real shit... now! Bitcoin-BTC was the first, but failed at privacy, thus is not freedom, and thus not crypto revolutionary. Years were wasted down that path. Godspeed real freedom.