On 9/2/20, jim bell wrote:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/alphabay-darknet-market-moderator-sentenced-t...

"Herrell was paid in Bitcoin to handle disputes between vendors and buyers on AlphaBay. He also acted as a “scam watcher” monitoring the marketplace for attempts to defraud users." So someone or entity can get paid to do voluntarily agreed upon, fair, peaceful, and trusted dispute resolution among parties, thereby helping to prevent escalation to violent outcomes, and everyone happily smokes a bowl at the end of the day... but gets decades in physically and mentally abusive prison, lack of health care, persecuted for life when let out, etc... Yet some street thug, rapist, arson, standing army, etc can beat the shit out of someone, abuse, maim, steal, tax theft, drone murder in "war", etc and get less or even no time or even the victim get repaid losses... and in many thieving regulating entities the malactor gets promoted for it... And whistleblower and publishers exercising freedom of speech get held in prison indefinitely without timely or fair process... While dozens of harmless open markets, kids Kool-aid stands, families selling food and services to make ends meet, etc get shutdown for being "unlicensed", etc... Yeah, that's Government Power for ya. BTW, search these tags among hundreds of others if you want to see more... #FreeRoss , #FreeAssange , ... Cryptocurrency invented to help defund and stop one of the abusers mentioned somewhere above, guess which one it is. Seems there's a reason many good people are in cryptosphere. And why more adoption keeps happening every day worldwide. There is no stopping decentralized privacy enabled cryptocurrency :)