The original poster underestimated, people like this are at least in the hundreds of thousands. Not even talking about fellow countrymen overseas, since they can’t open local bank accounts and face high tax rates. After the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, the Russians who came to India, Malaysia, and Thailand have truly experienced being rugged by the traditional financial system. Most of them live entirely on crypto, at most buying a KYC-compliant U card. Then there are the Israelis, running all kinds of on-the-table and under-the-table businesses here, heavily crypto-based.