Rant

I'm not going to advocate for crypto, more out of ignorance, but maybe it's possible to make a coin that's worth 0 USD but can be exchanged like USD.

Everyone is talking about boycotting services that work with government agencies they don't like, such as cop city or ICE, but the ultimate control the government has is USD. The dollar has effectively "blended into the wallpaper of society" and people don't realize that they can cut it out of their lives, in a theoretical sense. It's hard to get a round the convenience of USD since so many markets that it gives you Access to and without USD you can't even buy coffee at gas station.

The reason to boycott USD is that it would decouple government control over your life. If government printed money and inflated the currency and you had none then you're immune from devaluing. If you didn't use USD for but something else (currency or other forms of battering) then it would make other people give up their USD. Also the government does use USD to empower corporations via loans, bailouts, and subsidized (whatever the federal reserve comes up with) to essentially give them a lot of buying power so they can suck up GPUs, ram, and land.

To wrap it up. Using USD gives legitimacy to the federal government and everything they do. Selling your labor for USD means that the government can buy your labor for USD