> Signatures from activists, people in corrupt, poor, and developing countries
Speaking purely from a political perspective, this is a terrible argument. You're addressing the U.S. Congress. The letter this comment thread attaches to lists harms crypto brings on Americans. Your letter lists benefits accruing to non-Americans.
If I were a lobbyist for the original letter's writers, I'd line these two up and end my case. Benevolence has its place. But it's a strange bedfellow to financial deregulation.
I find these type of things to be deeply unconvincing, not in the sense that these people aren't getting something out of it, but again because it is happening in spite of the fact that it's cryptocurrency. They aren't using this because of some technical blockchain reasons, they're using this because it's a group of powerful foreigners coming along allowing them to do illegal forex. I guess you can't as easily push the "financial inclusion" angle if you're illegally selling them USD on black markets as a way to evade taxes? Then it becomes a lot more obvious what the game is.
Support from activists and people in corrupt, poor, and developing countries.