It let me purchase and sell a small software app without going to the bank, signing documents, paying $75 just to orchestrate a wire transfer.

Yes, skirting the law. Banks/payments have regulations.

Nothing wrong / illegal about what we did. Legitimate business, Used stable coins, filed taxes.

Not the point. Crypto skips all the regulations.

> Not the point.

No that's exactly the point. The point is what is a legitimate use case for crypto, this use case is getting around pointless bureaucracy. You don't get around regulations, the responsibility of adhering to them just shifts from a third party to you, hence the person you're replying to paid taxes.

Are you implying avoiding operating fees is not a valid use case? Operating fees help facilitate adherence to regulation at scale but they themselves are not the regulation.

You have a sample size issue for your counter.

It's a huge movement happening in the OSS space but HN refuses to acknowledge it.

HN unfortunately isn't very objective on this particular subject.

Do you have any stats to support this is some “huge movement” relative to whatever is considered standard practice? I ask this as an honest question since I’d never heard of the phenomenon, but am not steeped in OSS dev work by any means.