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Are there other uses? Surely a large and legitimate operation like Stripe and the companies they mention in the blog post would have found additional use cases?
You are literally in a thread whose top post is the Stripe founder describing use cases.
> For example, Bridge (a stablecoin orchestration platform that Stripe acquired) is used by SpaceX for managing money in long-tail markets. Another big customer, DolarApp, is providing banking services to customers in Latin America.
Let's say I make drinking water illegal, would you still do it? Sure you would, you need it to live, laws be damned.
In Argentina it was a similar situation, financially speaking, but with USD, as Argentina had like 1000% accumulated inflation since 2019, so basically the ARS melted in your hands, and the USD/Euros/crypto where your only safe havens.
So yes, the government made the transactions illegal, but the alternative was becoming poor (we ended up the previous government with around 55% poverty).