Value is a hard term, this link will seem snarky, but: https://www.axios.com/2024/12/25/russia-bitcoin-evade-sancti...

So in a way, it is providing value to someone, whether we like it or not.

Or Drug Cartels. https://www.context.news/digital-rights/how-crypto-helps-lat...

But this is the promise of uncontrollable decentralization providing value, for good or bad?