This isn't based on any principle other than a pretext for exercising their discretion, I wouldn't read too much into it. There's no underlying belief behind it. However, if you really have an objection, cryptocurrencies were literally invented to solve this specific problem.
I feel like I’m the only person who’s completely uninterested in investing in crypto, but at the same time hoping one succeeds at a significant level and does actually solve this problem.
I don't think investing in it does anything meaningful. It's much more important to start using it. To do this, you only need to buy a small amount (a couple hundred USD is plenty). IMO for real life transactions, Monero is a pretty good choice:
- It is not practically traceable like bitcoin or ethereum, which gives plenty of privacy
- The community actively fight against attempts at centralization (building ASIC and GPU resistant algorithms) -- most Monero mining power comes from CPUs, which evens the playing field quite a bit [1]
- Transaction fees are minimal (typically less than 0.01%)
Some services marketed toward privacy-conscious users have started accepting Monero, such as Mullvad VPN [2]
