I really recommend actually reading and viewing the sources I post before commenting.

"...Epstein using crypto..."

This exemplifies my caution, because the point of the post wasn't Epstein using BTC. Epstein was integral to the corporate involvement in Blockstream, consulted and arranging corporate investment to the point where he was considered an investor whose involvement constituted principal management of the project. This despite no actual financial investment on his part.

Epstein was a principal architect of the formation of the corporate control of BTC, not merely someone who bought some tokens. I can understand skimming content to form a gestalt, but as our interaction here shows, this risks leaving our biases unchallenged by new information presented in content we skim, or only read the headlines.

I do appreciate you including me in your extensive list of sources, and I don't resent you skimming my content or something. I intend to provide you useful criticism that enables you to avoid misunderstanding going forward, as your comment suggests happened here, and regarding my last post about the Mississippi River. I do this not because I find your commentary lacking, but because I find your capacity to understand and cogently comment of great value. However, since you haven't read and fully understood what I posted, you do not apply your ability to understand and comment cogently. I think this robs you of understanding, and me of valuable critique that can improve mine.

"...a reason not to use it..."

I don't think Epstein's involvement is a reason not to use it. I think the fact that all cryptos are dependent on the permission of the owners of the physical hardware the internet protocol itself depends on makes them completely dependent on the permission of the investors that own that hardware and the massive database produced by the holistic surveillance all of us have been sources of, and that enables granular specificity of censorship of our communications, is. Since cryptocurrency is just data, granular censorship produces every possible control over our crypto transactions CBDCs enable. It turns every crypto, including Monero, into a CBDC applying social credit scores to enslave users.

That is THE reason I find compelling to not depend on cryptocurrency to secure myself from economic control of malevolent overlords, because it is exactly the mechanism of economic control I seek to avoid.

Thanks!