My thoughts are if they can do offshore casinos and gambling sites....why current there be a off shore entity to act as a portal in and out of crypto. I understand there will be concerns with terror and money laundering. But the next big thing in this ecosystem is a gateway to deal with very complicated system of putting money in...
I think that's kind of what BTCe is.
When I first got into this I felt like I was doing some kind of clandestine underworld black-market activity. Sending passport fotos to Hungary and all sorts.
The problem with fiat is that it isn't really money - it's just a number in a book held by an arbitrary counterparty. You can't actually spend it yourself, you've got to get them to spend it on your behalf. That's true for just about every single financial movement anybody makes outside of buying bubblegum with pennies in their local sweetshop.
I think that crypto might take off in other ways - for example, people just start accepting it for goods and services. Bypass the whole fiat system and the economy grows on its own without having to be "capitalised" externally.