As an American living outside of America, getting non-US investment accounts is impossible, and most US banks don’t want non-residents investing, and lying about your address can get you in hot water with the IRS (are you, or are you not living in the US?).

Crypto companies follows much the same pattern and in some cases you can buy crypto but can’t cash out. If you could buy a game with bitcoin and get cash-money in a refund, this is quite viable.

We haven’t even started talking about money laundering…