Yes, USD is the only accepted way of paying taxes in the USA. If you wanna live and consume in the USA, you need to pay tax. If you need to pay tax you need dollars. This is generally how a country ensures demand for their currency.

That's not intrinsic value

That doesn't sound unreasonable. Out of interest, what would you consider a ridiculous speed to be crawling at?

I can't speak for Cloudflare, but crawling speed should be dictated by the site owner via the robots.txt crawl-delay. [1] A site owner could also rate-limit unauthenticated requests by IP via the cloudflare header using a 429 too many requests error page.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Craw...

This here is the problem. It’s a new time no one wants to be Rfc compliant, just go behind a service and problem is solved.

So no problem, time to move on web search is no longer exciting

Yup.

For those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network

I've got two wildcard domains that are completely unrelated from LetsEncrypt.