Its the only way to make private payments (XMR) in a world where everything tracks and spies on you. And it's not only used to buy illegal stuff https://kycnot.me/ .

Okay I get the hate for capitalism and global warming, but can we stop acting like anonymous payments for drugs and web hosting are a bad thing?

Do you like to get stoned and/or to trip balls? Do you like watching pirated movies? I fucking do at least, I imagine most people do lol.

I personally think there could be practical uses for crypto, such as getting around banking monopolies, but it's poorly secured at the moment, and the main usecase being pushed by its users are "get rich quick" schemes often involving fraud.

Your thinking seems to assume the liberal society as static and unchanging and seek to make life within it more tolerable, even with things that are mostly just product of current society and it's ills.

In a way crypto has fulfilled the promise of "banking the unbanked"... Its just that the main group of ”unbanked” people happened to be criminals and scammers.

Its been a huge boom for scammers, before this you had to convince people to use wester union or something and convince a person they are talking to some inconvenienced soon to be oil barron, now all they do is throw up a website with tradingview charts and people will throw money at them.

Well yeah in a better society where art was distributed freely and certain recreational substances weren't illegal we wouldn't need them.

That's not the reality we live in today, however, nor will it be for a very long time, unfortunately.