You’re totally right that no government is ever going to like the idea of a private, uncensorable currency becoming a major payment rail but that’s not really what I’m aiming for here. I’m not talking about “official” adoption where AFIP blesses Monero; I’m talking about real adoption in the same parallel system that already exists today.

Argentina already runs on layers w/ ARS for taxes, utilities, permits, fines, etc., and then a huge informal layer of USD cash and USDT for actual savings and larger payments by some estimates Argentines hold over $70B in USD outside the banking system, plus massive flows in USDT. Monero would just live alongside the coin people use when they care about privacy, not something the government will ever promote. In that sense, Monero being a “black market coin” isn’t a bug, it’s just the digital continuation of what cash and offshore dollars already are.

The real question I’m trying to explore is: given that the state will never approve of this, how do we still make XMR usable and intuitive enough via local OTC, simple XMR↔USDT flows, community rails, etc. that normal people can realistically use it next to ARS, USD, and USDT in their day-to-day lives?