It is by far the easiest way to pay people who are in another country. Trying to use a bank account for that always seems to get thwarted by a bunch of "fraud alert" false alarms.
Fiat money, unlike crypto, have lots of non-criminal uses.
These will often refuse or vastly over charge perfectly legal business that they have a "moral" objection to. This is by design.
Dammed if you do, and dammed if you dont.
pseudolus•1h ago