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With 1000 dollars each, it seems that bribing with bitcoin would be a good idea.  One USB stick will do the job with no third party required.

No, but only because bribery is a bad idea, in any currency.

Purely speaking of the transaction type, yes. Bitcoin allows two parties to conduct a transaction of any size without having to be near each other. So the trauma caused by the bribe can be happening away from the person asking for the bribe. Further, once the briber receives the bribe they can make it disappear in a nearly infinite number of ways so that it can't be retrieved. The bribe can't be found.

All anyone has to do is use a bitmixer and the coins become clean of any connection to the bribe.

I would advice you not to do it because in any angle,currency or ways bribery will always be a bad idea ! Even tho bitcoin has the capacity to  clean and make you look like clean because bitcoin is anonymous on its nature ! it will not clean your conscience ! so please as early as now dont do it because as you ask it , it was a bad idea.

This is like taken out of a movie, you go to a restaurant
someone sits beside you, you put down the USB stick
then you left, the person then beside you pick it up... ;D

But seriously, I don't like the idea, its still bribing and
corrupting someone, sooner or later you will be caught
and the full hands of the law will be coming over to
get you.

It is, if you want the transaction recorded on the Blockchain and later to be used as evidence against you. You may use mixer services, but the authorities are hunting down these services and you might end up explaining these actions in a court of law.

The mixer service in my signature says no records or logs are kept of all transactions going through their service, but bribery are wrong and should not be done, so I would advise against it.

Bribing is a bad idea itself, the act of bribing can put you in more mess than you expect, just make sure you always do the right thing and have no need to bribe anyone

Bitcoin helps in lots of illegal things to be done in a perfect manner without the support from third parties. This makes bitcoin ruin its future when more people use it for bad than for good needs. Such thinking to use bitcoin into bribe needs to be eliminated. As of now people prefer it much as a investment than a currency.

Why would you want to do such a thing in the first place until you are in some deep trouble. I would suggest you not to do this kind of stuff cause it would bring Bitcoin a bad name and if you are caught this would help the agencies who are already pissed with Bitcoin. I really don't appreciate people using Bitcoin for this kind of activities, why do you all want Bitcoin to have a bad name. Please it's a kind request refrain from this and don't do this or give other people such ideas. I am sure many newbies will be tempted to use this and then they mess up and bam the entire community could be effected.

What? Bribing is not a good idea. But that depends where you use the bribe. But if its for illegal, hell no! I will never do that just to change someones judgment or just to get someone he wants. Either if its money or bitcon. Bribing is still bad on everyones jurisdictions. Its a crime.

Bribing of any currency is not an ethical thing to do. You can tip them in BTC if they do the job well if you really want to spend your money. Bribing is morally wrong and should never be encouraged. The work should be done based on merit and not because of extra cash being sent.

using mixer service is another good option for us to hidden or mix the amount of bitcoin that we have or the transaction that we receive in our wallet. i don't think that bribing would help you for your purpose and i think its against with the law, we need to thinking that we don't have to make illegal activity because if there is many people doing this, then it will makes bitcoin got bad name and bitcoin will not be use by most people. so i think its better for us to stay away for any of illegal activity or making illegal transaction.

Bribery is the paying of money to influence the actions of a public official. Do many public officials use Bitcoin?

Thats a tempting amount. But we all know bribing is a bad behavior. Bribing just to influence someone sounds pathetic to me. Thats means, you're really desperate to get something thats impossible to get. Maybe just for reward. You can give someone a reward. Bitcoin is a good reward. Not everyone can accept your bribe. Maybe it will just put you to worst situation.

Absolutely not haha, stay safe bud

This is not good idea from the moral standpoint. We shouldn't be doing this with any form of currency.
Are you asking if doing it with Bitcoin is doable and better than doing it with paper cash? Probably not.
The only advantage of giving someone USB with BTC over envelope full of banknotes,
is that you can encrypt that file with private keys, so in case you get caught no one will get your BTC.
(As long as you have the copy somewhere).

If bribing is not illegal and immoral then you have probably the best idea a person could ever have. But since bribery is not good in nature then even if you use your bitcoin in bribing the result would be not good. Just use your bitcoin in legal and good purposes and dont waste your bitcoin in doing illegal activities. Bad actions has always its bad karma, please bear it in mind.

I don't get why you would even use a USB stick for this.. You would still have to physically hand it over.. imo there are much smarter ways to do it.

You can avoid a transaction on the blockchain by simply mailing a printed cold wallet without return address. No trace on the chain of that..

Anyway, ofcourse, don't bribe, it is not a good thing to do.

Bribery will always be there no matter you like it or not.

Check out how the officials stashed their money:



http://news.8btc.com/unspoken-need-of-central-bank-to-curb-corruption-with-digital-currency

Sometimes bribers is the only way to get things done in China.

Who will you bribe? Of course it is a good idea because there will be no trace but the problem would be is the one your bribing it to knows what you are sending him?

Or are you going to put instructions in an evelope with the USB in there? He might think it is just virus or something that could hack his personal computer.

I don't know if you are aware but bribery is illegal everywhere so this is not good idea in general. You will just get yourself into troubles. With Bitcoins maybe there will be less traces and evidence but still it's not that you are protected. My advice is not to do it, with or without Bitcoin.

If you are asking me personally if it was a good idea or not then i would say to you that it was not just a bad idea it was actually a worst idea
bribery by default is a criminal act so if you still have time please don't commit it , bitcoin will surely help you with that and will make you  successful with it  but please don't you are just making a bad image with bitcoin , bitcoin must be use for the benefit of the world  not  the contrary of it .

Thanks for the reminder. I havn't got involved in any bribery case. But just like a knife, bitcoin could be utilized in many ways.

bribing in nature is illegal , well if there is some case that bribing is morally upright then bitcoin was really a good method for you to execute your plans , bitcoin is anonymous and will stay anonymous ! so if you want to bribe and you think it is morally upright then go ahead bitcoin will surely help you out !

Not at all. Bribing is making our life difficult because rich can poor people with bribe and eveything goes against law and rules of ones country. Thus we shouldn't encourage bitcoin insteadwe should try to avoid it. and bribing via bitcoin is definitely a bad practice or idea because we should use bitcoin only for good reason becuse already it is being used by by crimminals and drug dealers adn thats puttin a bad image on bitcoin

Bribing with anything is bad.Bitcoin maybe most anonymous way of transferring but it in not totally untraceable and if bribing is illegal in your country, you may find yourself begind bars one day.

Why do we even touch this topic? Corruption and bribery is as old as humanity, you can use anything to bribe someone with.
It doesn't have to be even sophisticated form of currency like bitcoin. Heck, you could bribe someone with food, sex or anything valuable!
Is bitcoin the best way to bribe someone? Definitely not, it is pseudo-anonymous and hard to use. Paper money is still top used bribe tool and probably always will be.

It's great when to give as a gift cause giving a gift has no ulterior motive or anything bad but bribing itself is bad so regardless what form you should not do it . I don't know the other party will give if you bribe him/her but there will be always a way to do that fairly unless it is something illegal . Ever heard of the word "hardwork"? Maybe you should try doing it as it'll always feel good .

Precisely I think bribe is a bad thing to do and shouldn't be encouraged but if you want a better way of paying bribes then Bitcoin is sure superior in terms of how it's going to be received.

For me its not the best thing if you want to bribe someone. Plus bribing is illegal and criminal act in nature so once you are caught you will be jailed for your crime.

I guess it's not a good idea. it just makes bitcoin rated as a tool that is always used for evil. even using other currencies. well, I just felt that the bribe was not the right decision.

bribe is not good idea no matter currency will be used. Bribing is good only if you have wife and you want f**k her :D :D, i think she will glad. or if you have a child and you want your child to learn saving money

I think it is the same with any bribe would not be good apparently.

It is not a good idea, it is the best. You do not even have to use a usb, a piece of paper with private keys will do. No one will expect a scrap paper with random numbers and letters would amount to anything, right?

At first, I don't address the moral and criminal part of doing something like that but I claim only that bitcoin is the worst case scenario for this 'job'. Initially you need one who will accept the usb flash drive to be a 'hard' tech-savvy user. Furthermore, you have to somehow give him the private keys or the seed. Finally, if you believe that using bitcoin will prevent your anonymity and cover your tracks because you think that bitcoin is an anonymous and untraceable way for illegal activities then you will have to reconsider your decision because bitcoin has nothing of these features. So, if you insist to go, then cash i.e fiat or another crypto currency like as monero or zcash.

It's a horrible idea on many levels, bribing is unethical in itself and doing it on a currency with a public ledger is not going to be best for bribing in the least. As people already know the best way to go ahead and bribe would have to be cash as their is little evidence that could be found relating to the bribe unless their is camera evidence.


In some countries bribing is actually needed to get things done, sad to say but it's something that MUST occur for your business / personal life to survive. Bribing is accepted and used in these countries which was put forward by the Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/bribery-business-countries-most-likely_n_1071452.html This could be an opinion piece but still, it's worth the read.

Sure, it's on a public ledger, but if the Bitcoins aren't tied to you and the other party in any way, that shouldn't be a problem.
That said, it's illegal, but on the other hand, like you said, sometimes there's no way around it to get things done in certain countries.

In some cases it could even be needed to get bogus charges removed when you're travelling. Thinking about India for example...

Bribery through bitcoin is a good idea, but, that will be confusing if you are giving up your USB stick to a person and that person don't know what are trying to do or trying to give you. Here in our place there are a lot of people who do not know bitcoin and there are only few people that I know or I can bribe with this currency.

Thank you fer definin' bribery, none a us knowed what dat meant.  Sarcaysm off.

Who say y'all need a 3rd party?  Did I miss the update on bribin' tha government?   An' ta answer this here scholar, nigga if you pay in bitcoin, the dude ain' gon' refuse yo money!

An' t'the OP, yeh it might be damn convenient, but it gon' git yo ass throwed up in the hoose gow anyway.  Cain't git away wit dat shit no mo'.

Bribing is about giving money to cover the wrong action that you have done, and it is really especially in the side of government officials that have cases like these, government officials, that inlcude s teachers and janitors, so if a janitor saw you killing someone and that janitor ( let's say he knew bitcoin and its price) was given bitcoin as a bribe to just forget what happened, he will accept it really. Everyone might do the same, you know, killing someones plants and animals hahahaha  ;D :D

To avoid all the government's paper works and bureaucracy dramas? paying an extra incentive to the lazy a*s government's employees to work faster than usual? sure why not but to take advantage significantly that could have harmful or uncalled for consequences, then no.

well it is a bit dilemma if you want to bribe someone using bitcoin, if you are using bitcoin then you need to make sure that person knows bitcoin and when you do bitcoin transaction there are no proof that you are giving the money, so it is good to cover your step, but in other hand using bitcoin in an illegal action can really hurt the bitcoin reputation, so I still think it is not a good idea

Bribing is illegal, but if you plan to bribe someone bitcoin is a good idea, almost untraceable. In any case this is delicate situation, this person need to be careful with cashing out, any income needs to be explained, but that is same like any other currency, I don't see bitcoin as exception here. And for this bribed person need to know for bitcoin, imagine you wish to bribe a cop and you give him usb stick with couple bitcoins and he tell you what the fuck is this!

Anything that has to do with bribing is not a good idea at all, be it by way of bitcoin or some other favors that you are willing to do just so you could get a deal done.  But we have to face the fact of life that a lot of under the table negotiations take place, especially in government related projects. Bitcoin might be an instrument that’s comes in handy for those who want their transactions to be untraceable.

I would say its not a good idea because literally its a crime if commited, and you are putting a persons financial future into failure situation. Emotional problem will result to a person that is being victimized by those who bribe using bitcoin and all the lies behind is unrighteous. If you happened to bribed by someone please report this to authorities so that they will be given sanctions by law and desciplinary actions will be imposed.

Basiccally yes it is good ideas if be compared bribing use fiat money
because many beneficial of bitcoin doesn't be had by fiat money but
bribing is something illegal will make bad image for bitcoin
if be used for bribing, as comunity of bitcoin we must take care about bitcoin.

If by untraceable you mean it could be traced by a half-witted monkey with Internet access then yes. Completely untraceable. Here's a good lesson to learn: bitcoins aren't anonymous. Even handing over a flash drive so it's an off-chain transaction it can be traced. So your argument literally is the exact opposite of what bitcoins really are.

In any matter bribing is a bad idea. In anything that you will do that cause someone felt lose or in anything that you get someone things without permission is a wrong doing. In bitcon even if it is anonymous still its not a good thing to do. Thus, think it twice or more before you take an action.

I think bribery is not directly involved with everyone.

Is evading tax via bitcoin a good idea?

i personally dont belive in using bitcoin for this kind of stuff since its not the goal it was created for, but yea its the most logical way of doing so. anyways bribing and illegal activities in my opnion are always a bad idea and never end good.

The activities of bribery could not be justified, with money, property, food or bitcoin all breaking the law. Let use bitcoin for better things and positive. If a lot of offense with bitcoin can then give rise to concern many people.

Bitcoin would not be a good choice of payment if it came to bribing because if any anybody found out about this transaction they can easy give proof that this actually transpired and can not be written off the network.

No one can stop you if you decide to use btc to bribe someone but just to remind you, if the person you bribe with just don't do what you want him to do, you still lose your btc. Whatever you want him to do just do it legally, if you have to fall in line up to a hundred, just do it.

This is somewhat like extortion still so its not as a good as what it seem like even if you are the victim. If you make transaction to bad cops, then surely you already know they are bad. Bribing them doesn't make them good cops.

Thats not good at all. There are many people have some mistake in their thought about bitcoin. If they just read from a small piece of review about bitcoin and they consider that bitcoin is just a digital coin which allow people trade with bad purpose like drug dealer, man,... and now, one more time, you've confirmed that rumour is true when asking that is a good idea if people bribe via bitcoin. I don't say that you want use bitcoin to bribe but if you think about that, meaning many people also think about that too... So who know, some people will do that or even that is happening.

While I would never recommend bribing anyone and in most countries that's illegal, the concept is ok however it is incredibly unlikely it would work since there is no visible value on a USB drive that can be checked, unlike what happens with cash. The only way a system like that would work would be to have it organized in advance.

Bribing itself is not a good idea, by any means. Though its secure as no name is involved while transacting, but it might give Bitcoin a bad name.
And in many countries Bitcoin is not so popular, even some on takes bribe, it will be difficult for him to cash it to spend it. :P

Why would any one need to give a bribe in the first instance if you didnt even engage in something of illegal ends. And even if that is the case, I want to believe that the person who is to collect the bribe will be the one to determine the currency of acceptance and if he or she has agreed to collect bitcoin then I dont see any problem since it is money and even if it is fiat, he will still collect.

it is a good idea if you insist on bribing because theres no evidence that can link it to you as long as you dont put any real information to your transaction but I think theres just a small bad people who uses bitcoin mostly on 3rd world countries they dont see any value on bitcoin unless they are a techy guy that knows what bitcoin is.

What makes you think "bribing via bitcoin" could be a good idea a priori? I think it's a bad idea. Bribing is not a nice thing to do or to be involved in -- not at all. Could you go into more detail regarding the "one USB stick"?

I agree. if some of bitcoin users bribe then bitcoil will be more well-known as illegal currency or criminals' currency because many users use it to do criminal things or bad things. even you can bribe and no one knows, (remember God always knows), it's still not a good thing. so just do not do bad thing using bitcoin for some time.

Sometimes, (especially in third world countries), you need to give people bribes to make them do their job. It is a social evil, but it exists.
Bitcoin will just make it harder for those people to get outed.  :(

it is action that is not commendable. bitcoin created to make our financial life for the better. rather than as a tool for negative actions.
I suggest to use bitcoin only for positive activities.

It's too hard to quickly verify for the bribee.

Yes, from the aspects of privacy and escaping investigation from anti corruption authorities, it is a good idea. But it shouldn't be promoted and will destroy the purpose of Bitcoin. Otherwise it will give the Chinese authorities another reasons to talk to the Bitcoin exchanges and cause the fluctuations of price.

I would say you actually have a greater chance of getting caught, since the person will probably try to convert the Bitcoin to fiat at some point.
If they are under suspicion of anything, anyone watching them may catch them trying to cash out their coins.
Paper currency is much easier to hide as long as you don't try to put it into a bank account or something like that.

Let us use an example for those officials had been caught in the act using illegal drugs. What happens next? They will bribe to not be in jail. So, bribing is not a good idea anyway. They use it to bad intentions to cover up of one's fault. Bitcoin couldn't control by anybody so utilize our bitcoin in a good way.

Bitcoin is not anonymous at all.. u got pseudonyms on the blockchain.. its pseudonymous..
But with a good Bitcoin Mixer you get near to fully anonymous.
I think bribing with BTC is more useful, safer and easier than with Fiat

If you do this and if you got caught. This will be a sensationalized news for the bitcoin community. And this will have a negative impact to us. And if this ever happen, bitcoin will have a difficult to be adopted by many people.

Seems like many of you are focusing on the whole bribes are bad thing and also that Bitcoin is not anonymous. I want to get a bit more technical. But first let me say, yes bribes a bad, but bad things happen on this world. I do not recommend it. Secondly if you want to stay anonymous, then buying anonymous and mixing the coins a couple of times before the bribe should be good enough in most cases.
What i do not get is the USB part. I just assume this has to be done in person, since it would be much safer to just send the keys per mail/email/text massage (of course encrypted). But even when meeting face to face, i see no need for the USB. The other party will have to make sure they get the money, so they will have to sweep the address provided by you. This is so you can not just have a copy of the keys and immediately "double spend" (technically it is not a double spend, if two persons have the key and one just spends them quicker then the other) before they can spend the coins. So there will have to be some kind of internet connection anyway, why not just use a paper wallet (you could swallow the evidence if the situations changes) then or do it with a wallet on your phone. For safety reasons it is not smart to use an unknown stick. The potential of malware, spyware and what not are just to big to take.

no, this is crazy. why would you want to use Bitcoin to bribery. You are not a pure man. This is a bad idea, the money should be used reasonably and legally. you are not allowed to use it for your offense. this is a moral misconduct, Bitcoin is a clean coin, if you take advantage of it to do it, Bitcoin will be affected, the reputation of Bitcoin would be libelous. I advise you not to do it

yes,then you will have to take this guy's e-mail to teach him how to convert his bitcoin bribe into fiat  ;D
like a  scene from a spy movie-two guys come to a park,one is reading a newspaper and leaves a usb drive on a bench or puts it into a rubbish bin
for the second guy to pick it up,the whole idea made me smile

If you are going to use bitcoin to bribe the government officials and other person in authorities they will not accept bitcoin especially in third world countries. The reason is simple bitcoin is hard to exchange for local currencies and if they will exchange it to local currencies they cannot convert it unless they make a verification using their valid ids. So to make it simple they just want a direct bribe without passing to an escrow that requires you to submit valid id for verification.

I’m not going to talk about the ethics and risks of bribery, like most of the replies that you are getting, but I don’t think that bitcoin is the ideal medium for bribery. Bitcoin is not a very common currency. You talk to the average person about it, and they’ll probably tell you that they don’t understand bitcoin. Of course, if you give anyone $1000 in bitcoin, they will still have the motivation to cash it in, but they’ll also have trouble doing so. If you are trying to bribe someone with a usb stick holding bitcoin, it is too slow for them to verify the amount of bitcoin on the usb. Bribery should be quick and discreet.

i do not think that it is such an easy job in my area, because bitcoin is still not use b to many people here. te sers of bitcoin are very little in number and most of the people are using fat therefore there are more chance of such things in fiat and not in bitcoin.

Thanks for sharing your views. What if bitcoin is described as an P2P saving system?  Do you think they would hold them.

if you are bribing it would be a good choice, since there is no evidence and it's not linked to a name etc... However the same is a downfall, you wouldn't be able to threaten the one bribed with it, therefore might not get anything for it..
Regarding it not being popular, it doesn't matter.. it has a USD value and can be exchanged easily, at the same time it would be clean money not something that can be linked like a bank transfer.

From the ethical point of view bribing in whatever form is something that should be discouraged but there are some situations that you find yourself, you just have to bribe your way out so in this case, since bitcoin is money and the recipient is aware of that and also willing to accept it, then I say it should be used and the advantage with that is it can not be traced back to whoever is giving the bribe...

Bitcoin, at the first place can get you done anything you want with it but it does not mean people should do every illegal things with it. Of course it can be more anonymous for bribing someone if it is done with bitcoins and no one can know if what is going on at all, but at the end, it is bribing and it is really not a good thing at all.

Transacting through bitcoin for whatsoever reason is a good idea and but paying bribe is not. It will only encourage the scamstars to continue with their misdeeds as bitcoin transactions will not effect that person directly and he will be able to hide the trail of the payment as per his wish.

However, don't try to use bitcoin for illegal transactions. Because these kind of illegal transactions will block the progress of bitcoin to become an international currency. Governments will not trust this currency as a legal one due to money laundering claims and public trust will start to reduce. Use it for investment or shopping instead of paying bribe.

Not at all. But It definately reduces your chances of getting caught  ::) ::) ::) ::)

i think no, cause the main idea is bribing. not really a good purposes
but if you use bribing with bitcoin that will be hard to get tracked by government or anybody else, so i think good enough

If you don't know the identity of the person you're bribing, they can report you anyway and not get caught.  If you do know the identity of the person you're bribing it removes the need for Bitcoin because paying them cash in person is just as good.

Confess, who re about to ask for a Bitcoin bribe? You would not post this topic if this was not the case!!

Confess and repent!

Bribing via bitcoin is easy and highly secure that other than the bribe giver and receiver knows it. Recently too in US a Pastor was convicted for bribe through bitcoin. It has come to the court for hearing, on the first day its found that $15000 worth bitcoin was received in the form of church donation.

There are many cases coming around from the world. People are misusing it anonymity for their best. No one else need to know about this transaction other than the sender and receiver.

I don't think people in this thread need to teach OP how bribing is bad and plain wrong. He is capable enough to understand the consequences of bribing.

Other than that, Bitcoin has made bribing more easier since it allows anonymous payment and there are hundreds of ways to make your coins disappear after the transaction is complete.

Everything has a good and a bad side and this is just another way Bitcoins can be misused.

That is reality, and is a bad idea, it is misconduct and bad. I hate people like that. If you do that, you are a criminal. Bitcoin currency is a clean, your ideas are denigrate the value of Bitcoin

Ha, Chinese officials are very corrupted, you know they should be more transparent, but they are all hypocrite, they say they love the country, but steal money from Chinese people.

When you accept bribe via Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency, you still need to act smart, suddenly exchanging thousands of dollars will raise suspicions and you'll have to explain where did you get those coins. So in order to avoid this, you should make purchase with your bribe coins, so it will be much harder to notice, unless you make some big spending, like a car or house. Also, it's not true that bribes are always wrong, sometimes you can bribe officials to circumvent some bad laws, like marijuana ban for example. In many countries you might even need to give bribes just to get some documents that should have been given for free.

It seems bribing with bitcoin will not be detected, but we must also believe that such action is ugly and against the law. It is back to the person, if there is indeed the intention to bribe then with whatever could be done include using bitcoin.

Bribery is a serious crime, we can't tolerate that happen, government officials are servants of the country, they should not do the bribery.

Yeah, the nature of the bitcoin allows anyone who uses it to keep out of control of the government and uses money without being tracked down, and that is good when used by the right people and the ones who have good intentions but in the wrong hands it can cause a lot of problems and be used for illegal things, like bribing and selling drugs, and that is what it is happing in the black market.

Not really, you can just ask bribes for cash and not bitcoin since it would somehow make it more complicated (though transparent and it will be posted forever in the blockchain) also, bribery is an illegal offense so it's not a good thing to do and involve bitcoin with.,

I think it is a good idea, but considering pseudo anonymous nature of bitcoin, I will prefer doing this via Monero which is gaining traction among darknet too.

Yeah mixer service make it easier because somehow it erases the trace of the two person's bribe transaction.  Aside from that it can be done in two different location without banks or remittance service and nullify or at least make it harder to trace the people involved.

This is the main reason why most of the merchants and institutes don't want to use Bitcoin as a payment gateway. It makes them feel that someone will point out that they are misusing the money only because they are using Bitcoin. It's a loss to all the Bitcoin community.

That is still traceable but it will give a hard time for the authorities to trace transactions and you are safe if you are not suspected. For now, bitcoin is easily use for illegal transactions but as the government has strengthen the rules and regulation, it will be more risky.

Exchange sites are require to comply with the Anti Money Laundering and the example falls to the the law, so it's risky.

It was actually really could happen! because they consider it the safest way but no evil shall escape from law enforcement even if Bitcoin is considered as a means of transaction safest thing to do Crime will definitely be wafted by their law enforcement so do not try to do anything utuk crime

Bribing itself a bad idea, so when bribing is done through bitcoin it makes bad impression over bitcoin for people who have been into research whether to use bitcoin or not.

Seriously mate ?
Bribing itself isn't good. + suggesting bitcoins to do that makes it worse.

Bitcoin already has kinda bad reputation as it's used in pirating sites and other illegal things (I guess).

That's simply wrong for the society and more important to US it's bad for the future of crypto currency.

First, why would you need a third party to bribe with fiat/cash?

Second, people have already used bitcoin successfully for bribes.

Most importantly, why are you bribing people? Bribing is awful, it's not good...and it is a crime that the briber and the bribed are equally complicit in.

What do you bribe people for?

bribing is not good idea, it's a crime. But i knew there are some ppl used bitcoin for bribing. The best idea is using bitcoin for donation or charity

Whenever bribing via bitcoin was a good idea,  It can be use for most of the time in different forms of some illegal activities in any aspects of a business in this world. Its not because is an open source we take to use it in bad purposes, that's not right at all.

I think they call it ransom ware and they do normally ask for bitcoin cause the bribers think they are trace less transaction which is far from the case.
They can all be traced back eventually.
Why do you think the bitfinex coin heist aren't showing movement all that time since it was hacked and now just slowly are they starting to be on the move. :-\

That would be a tremendous misuse of Bitcoin. Bribe is so wrong in itself and it carries the same heaviness regardless its shape. I'm positive that in a few years we will have some kind of control and that no such things as a bribe will be possible.

It is a terrible idea to bribe using bitcoin, the negative activity using bitcoin will bring negative reputation and the banning of bitcoin, bitcoin was created to help people to have a freedom in transaction not to used it for illegal thing, the misuse of bitcoin is the reason why the society rejecting bitcoin

Bribe is not a good thing so it should be avoided in the first place. People like to give bribe in bitcoins as due to the nature of the bitcoin the sender will not be caught if he has given bribe in Bitcoins.
Bitcoin transcations are anonymous and people tends to misuse it.

Bitcoin has anonymous nature to support bribe and other illegal activities, but these days very few use it for such needs. Bribe giving and receiving is always a crime, but we the people are the one to start such a bad thing to complete our work done faster without going through the legal procedures. Eventually the receiver needs it in a secure way due to governments opposing it. Truly speaking fiat and properties were transferred as bribe than bitcoin, because very few politicians are educated to know about virtual currencies.

Then you, going to jail would be a good idea also. Money Laundering, Bribing money using bitcoin is illegal, and someone can file a case against you violating a certain law about this, and I know nobody wants to be in jail. So, instead of thinking about illegal stuffs just to earn big money using bitcoin, why not focus on earning enough bitcoin but in legal ways, like Signature Campaign, Trading, and so on.

Giving this idea in this forum would just provoke people to do something like this, especially those people who are greedy when it comes to money. Posting this kind of topic, are just giving other people idea to do something bad and might take them to the wrong path, that is why we must think first what we are going to post here in this forum, and it would be good if the one that we are going to post are those topics that is connected on bitcoin and could help people in return by having ideas how to do about a certain topic. :)

 Yes , you can do that. Infact many are doing that.  Nobody will find out anything and there wont be any evidence. Definitely one day government will take action against this by banning the usage of bitcoins.A small advice to you brother, please dont do that.
Dont make use of this awesome technology for such illegal activities.This type of post should be banned here.

No, it depends on what is the case? There are some cases which we bribe without breaking the law.
For example :
- I give you $1000 to not tell anyone, who gave it to you?
- I give you $1000 to buy a cake/flowers for your pretty sister.
All those cases could consider as bribe. Depends on the case.

Wow that's a very interesting topic and I think bribing someone is not an acceptable act when someone has done that to us personally. That is a crime committed by a person who offers money, as a payment of any consideration which in a situation that needs very serious negotiation to be fixed with an amount of money. When this happens to both party involving bitcoin, that should not be a good idea because it lowers the morale of digital currency which maybe the reason law makers might be strict on this aspects.

Bribes can be done in all payment instruments, including bitcoin. Bitcoin is used to bribe because anonymous so it is difficult to track. You're right, do not take advantage of bitcoin to do illegal activities. It will hurt bitcoin in the future and could undermine the confidence of the government into bitcoin. It is better to use bitcoin with properly and correctly.

Whenever bribing cannot be a good thing ever! since bitcoin is an open source we can do nothing about what the users of bitcoin will gonna do of how is He/She going to use it. Hoping that majority of the bitcoin users will just use it for good reason only.

If I needed to bribe someone with $1000, I would rather do it with fiat money and hodl onto my precious bitcoins. Bitcoin will be worth more in the future so therefore using bitcoin to bribe someone is not a good idea. Use fiat instead to bribe people.

On the flip side, if I were accepting a $1000 bribe, I would rather receive it in bitcoin rather than fiat.  ;)

I did not know that the world has changed a lot . :P bribing with bitcoins come on.What on earth is happening ,you are bribing a government employee or a politician and i bet they would not have any clue about bitcoin and how could you bribe them promising that it can be handled with bitcoin.It sounds cheesy and made me laugh.
If you are doing something illegal then i can understand the reason  you are going the distance as to make them understand what bitcoin is and bribing them with it.  :D

Bitcoin is a currency and anyone can do anything with his currency. Even if there were no bitcoins would bribe would have been stopped ?  I guess No.
People tends to use Fiat for bribe purpose in the past. So for me, Bribe is a bad act which can be done with all currencies and bitcoin alone should not be blamed for this.

This is not a good idea. Bitcoin was not designed on that concept though it can be done but let us not abuse it to use for bad things. Let us use bitcoin for good purposes as much as we can.

Bribing really is not a good idea, but it will not be a crime, as long as justice still not sees it doing the crime. Bitcoin has a lot of anonymous transactions which is really an ideal way to make crimes using it.
Donation and charity is not a best idea for it, fiat still be best with this kinds of things, especially when the people that will receive that donation or charity don't know what a bitcoin is, it will be useless.

Yes,its quite easy to bribe via bitcoins.No tracing and no tension.This would even be called as technical bribing.But,bribing is a bad idea and using bitcoin for such acts should be avoided.But still,no one can dictate or regulate any one to how to use bitcoin.Its up to them.

i think we should discourage every illegal activities for which people are using bitcoin. specially for such kind of activities which are creating disorder in the society.

Guys, we did not have enough time to break the topic of the best opportunities to give bribes. We must understand that due to corruption in most countries, all economic and social standards are in decline. I'm not talking about a judicial system that does not work without a "green one" at all.

I agree but it can also be used as a means of giving tips and appreciating what people do for us on a daily basis and that shouldn't be considered as a bribe or a bad thing.

This is a good one bro. However, at any point bribing was never a good idea. Even if you use fiat money, gold nuggets, or any item that has value. Yes it is good to utilize the capability of bitcoin but let's not cross the line. Using bitcoin illegally may cause chaos to people using bitcoin. Any government or international bodies might take bitcoin as threat and it will have a great impact on us.

+1 there bro. Utilizing bitcoin on illegal actions impacts order and it will not end well

By positive note, bitcoin is capable and flexible for anything. Getting used for bad things or being misused are the things which are beyond the control of any system. Interestingly bad people innovate things first than rest of people. So, no wonder we come across about bitcoin bribes. Like ransom ware it may become another head ache for law makers and for common people.

Bribing is itself a bad idea and promoting Bribe is not good, But thinking of giving bribe through bitcoin is very safe as we cannot track the records of who gave to whom and no one knows senders details.

Well I don't think it is really a good idea,
We all know that bribing is a really bad thing to do,
And it doesn't matter what currency you would bribe.

Yes, of course that's a pretty good idea and not too obvious, I wonder if how many people today doing this can kind of bribing via bitcoin, Is this a modern way of bribing now? That is why some governments in different countries do not support the legality of bitcoin because of some illegal activities/deals that may happen like this.   

Bribing is never a good idea because it's illegal and wrong from moral stand point, but if you still insist on bribing using bitcoin, then i say it's good over using fiat, gold and other things.

Bribing is a crime in, I suppose, every country in the world, besides since bitcoin is not really anonymous then that means that it could be very easy to trace the bribe by security agencies, that is why most bribes are with cash in the real world.

Bribing is a crime that can get you into jail.  If someone caught you bribing any official in my country in any form can end you to jail.  If we think that Bitcoin transaction cannot be traced, we are wrong.  Bitcoin transaction can be traced as long as we left our identity connected on that transaction.  Though the government may possibly get a hard time but still in moral sense, bribing to get your things done is still not right.

Bribery is nothing in comparison to what is possible in the deep web .well dont do bribery , as it is a crime .

Though everyone knew giving as well getting bribe is a crime we continue to do the same as we are benefiting out of it. Bitcoin has just made the process easier, if bitcoin is not found they would continue with fiat or gift cards. So at least through those bribery let us have an increased circulation of bitcoin causing a growth.

Yes bribing in bitcoin will make you clean and it will look like as if nothing had happened. That's the disadvantage of this crypto currenncy because of it's anonymous transactions you dont know any personal details of the sender but at the same time it is also an advantage denpending on the person using it specially to those doing something illegal.

It looks like we have got bad guys here, who are just brave enough because they are anonymous in using bitcoin. Well yeah, you are correct that bribing via bitcoin is a good idea for you since you are completely anonymous when you are going to use bitcoin in this illegal act, but, let me inform you that there is still someone out there who sees you in whatever you are doing in this world, I know you know Him.

And, bribing via bitcoin is not a good idea for me because it is illegal, and the worst thing that could happen to you if you get caught is in jail.

Well if bitcoin was used for this kind of dirty works, don't you all think that governments and international bodies will impose laws to tighten its security and remove bitcoins' anonymity?

There are many weird services that are accepting bitcoins out there.
So I don't think there will be any issue to use bitcoin as bribing :D

Well what is the point of bribing someone with bitcoin when you can basically do the same job with cash? The discussion has been in the past about buying drugs with bitcoin, this is essentially the same. The problem is that you can buy drugs and bribe anyone with any currency, not just bitcoin.

Cash is anonymous as well, and if you are bribing someone in real life then there is no real benefit of using bitcoin. Unless, you are bribing across borders… In which case you won’t be able to pass on a USB stick to the guy you’re bribing ;)

Anyways, bribing isn’t a good idea at all. It’s illegal, you’ll get caught.

Bribing is illegal to do mate, i don’t think it is a good idea to ever get into bribing officials and all that. Law enforcement will eventually catch up with what you are doing and you’ll go to jail for what you’ve done.

The problem with bitcoin is that all transactions are public, if you were bribing someone you should probably do so with cash instead.

If you are just wanting to use cryptocurrencies, then use Monero or Dash for private transactions…

Using bitcoins to bribe is not only illegal but unwise, lol.


Lol, the problem isn't how to spend it. It's that bribing is illegal and using bitcoin doesn't really help avoid that.

It is true that many services out there are accepting bitcoin, but it doesn't mean that we could use bitcoin in whatever we wanted to do. For example is this bribing idea through bitcoin, we all know that bribing is illegal, and you could end up on jail if we are going to get caught. So, this is an issue which may cause for a certain place or country for bitcoin to be banned because of this.

And there are many countries out there banned bitcoin because of being misuse by the people, like buying illegal drugs, guns and so on in the black market in the deep web.

Well lol, what have you been up to man ;D

Sure, the idea seems great. Actually you don’t even need a USB stick, you can just tell them the private key by mouth, although that is a hassle to do due to the sheer number of characters in a private key. Or you could hand them a piece of paper.

I doubt that people will accept bitcoin bribes to be honest as most people don’t know what bitcoins are even yet across the world. You’ll probably find more success using cash not bitcoins lmao.

Disclaimer: I do not endorse the act of bribing anyone! ;D

Lol, the problem isn't how to spend it. It's that bribing is illegal and using bitcoin doesn't really help avoid that.
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Looks like they all know the stuffs where to spend bitcoin even though it is illegal. This act, bribing anyone using bitcoin is not a great idea. It could lead us to a certain circumstances which we don't want to happen, and if you are saying that it is okay to do, to bribe people since you are anonymous in bitcoin, well, I could say you're not completely that anonymous. Your IP address could be track where you are and who you are, so you could get caught and you know where your destination would be.

I know we don't want such thing to happen, that we would end up in jail because of misusing the bitcoin. We could avoid this thing, since there are lot of ways on where we could spend it, the best idea so far is to earn and save it, for us to have profits in the long run.

Bribing is a bad idea itself, the act of bribing can put you in more mess than you expect, just make sure you always do the right thing and have no need to bribe anyone

Using bitcoin for bribes is a good idea? Absolutely not! Bribing was never a good idea so why bother? Deeds with bad intention will never end well. Maybe it will benefit you from the start, but in the long run, it may result for something worse. Your action may haunt you ;D ;D ;D

I think bribing via bitcoin is not a good idea.
We all know that bribing was never a good idea.

Maybe yes or maybe no. It always depends on what way you used bitcoin in bribing. But if bribing used in bad or illegal ways then i strongly say that it is not a good idea and it will never be. It may be result to something wrong or bad intention or maybe worse as it is. So if you think that bribe is not a good idea, from the start dont bribe to anything/someone because it may lead to jail if you are caught and bribing is a crime. So dont do it!

Bitcoin has a trail and it can easily be trace, to be sure about your safety you need your an actual cash as it cannot be monitored. Don't be so comfortable with your believe that bitcoin is anonymous because it's not, when you are getting the attention of the authorities you will be investigate and eventually get caught in due time.

Bribing through anything is not a good idea. But If you are really in need of something. Then yes why not. If the other person is ready for accepting bitcoin. Then you can give him and most importantly your identity will be hidden.

When you bribe someone it has nothing to do with what you give them but rather what they do for you in return.

What you give them doesn't change the fact that you bribed someone.

Personally I don’t think this is a good idea if using bitcoin to commit crimes becomes a norm then the average person will link those two and will never adopt bitcoin, so I would like criminals to stop using bitcoin because they bring a bad name to the coin.

I also think it is not. Just think fooling some one on a thing that they've already know. Bitcoin is the main crypto currency for now and it will continue as the support of the community and the increase of value control the demand of it. Meaning to say that more businesses would accept bitcoin for their transaction. Then bribing would not be an option anymore because good things will happened to bitcoin. After that that is the time bitcoin will be widely known by people in almost all country.

i think that "bribing" is bad idea either it is with bitcoin, other currency or anything. it deprives other people from opportunities like those who are well-qualified and also it come in corruption and the nation with corruption always lose the race of development in the modern world.
bribing with bitcoin could destroy the image of bitcoin.

I dont think that bribing in bitcoin is a good idea.
First, you would need to type the address of the officer into your mobile, so bitcoins stashed at hardware wallet or paper wallet wouldnt make a job here.

Also, in case if it would turn out that someone was bribed, they could connect the address and the transaction.
If your are bribing someone with cash, nobody can proove it unless thsy will find the money.

Im sure there are thousands of better ways to do this, but bear in mind that bribing an public officer is a crime, and you need to stay careful to not get caught (I am not encouraging anyone to do crime).

I agree with you... You are on point...yea bribing is bad..a crime it is...

You can't say that, bribing is giving, or paying someone to make or do something, and mostly they are done unethically or illegally. You can't say that it has nothing to do with what you pay them, because they did it on the first place because he or she needs that money, and done that because it is a good offer. Yes it doesn't matter what you bribed them, but it matter how much you pay them.

I think people on goverments now accept bitcoin, for sure in my country they are doing that. Because electronic declaration shows that a lot of people have bitcoins.Political shows bitcon funds but anybody can't control for what reason or where do they get bitcoins

Either if you bribe via dollars or bitcoin,its not good for society.But if you are still willing to bribe,better go with bitcoins.Its safe and secure.No more cash handlings.No more bank transactions.Just a click to send btc from your wallet to the other's address.It seems officers who wish to get bribe would insist the briber to give him in only bitcoins in future.

Bribing is not crime as long as the person that you asked to do something is on the same side to you or if he agree with your deal. Bribing is not that common way of doing a crime because most of the times bribing is done to pay something to another person which they make a deal before doing it and that is not enough to consider as a crime.

Which government starts accepting bitcoin as i have not heard about this in any news. Can you provide any link so that i could read what you are talking about,how come political parties or politicians hold a lot of bitcoins , i am really confused what you are trying to tell here.

Yeah for real asking about bribing says something about the user sort of. I think the USB stick idea was to make the transaction of the key quicker and smoother. Even a piece of paper is hard because you have to type it all out.

An usb stick is awesome because you can just copy it straight from the txt file on the drive. I don’t know though if the other party would accept a bribe in bitcoin. They would hopefully have a use for it since changing it into fiat might loose 20% of the money.

Although the USB idea is slick, there is still a record.of the transaction on the blockchain, in a permanent format. So much easier (and final) to hand someone some cash. Unless the serial numbers were recorded, once the cash leaves your hand, the transaction is done. Essentially, as long as the transaction is discoverable on the blockchain, it's still alive.

I think that the best way would be a qr code.
Just talk normally to the guy, avoid any phrases that might incriminate you and then stick a qr code in front of him.

Even if you're stormed by the police in that moment what can they accuse you of doing?
They would have to prove that that qr code represent a bitcoin address you own.

Gooood luck in doing so.
With an usb stick in your pocket, it's your turn to pray to god you can prove it's not yours.

They are taking bribes with bitcoin. I ment that they find our how to take bribes using bitcoin. I am talking about Ukraine, if you are intrested which country

Bribing itself is a bad idea.
But if you still want to bribe,then bitcoin would be much easier to bribe than using cash.Since there is no bank transaction involved here,it could not be traced.Just a click will do sending bitcoins from your wallet to the other address.

Bitcoin is a very easy money to be used for bribe work. And that was certainly made by so many people. And I think that's a bad idea for bad guys. I feel hated and do not want it to happen. It is a criminal offense and affects everyone, and it affects the reputation and the cleanliness of bitcoins. I hate it.

Whether we like it or not, wrongdoers will remain on doing bad things. It is really sad to think that bitcoin is used in such activity but what can we do about it? Nothing. Criminals will always find new ways on how they will do their bad deeds and since bitcoin is just there, waiting to be used, they will use it not only for bribery but for other type of criminal act also. They will stop at nothing just to do what they want.

I dont think that bribing someone with bitcoin will increase your chance of success.
It is harder to make a transaction quick, you need to have some kind of mobile access to send the bitcoin.
I can spot another problem in this idea, because not every law enforcement officer will use BTC as a way to hold/save money, so the plan will be ruined if someone will not be interested in cryptocurrencies.
As naughty1 already said, the bad guys  can make their way easier by bribing police with cash, instead of offering them to make a transfer with BTC.

Bribing is a bad idea always but it is even worst with bitcoin since the media is going to come with classic attacks against bitcoin saying that is the currency of choice by criminals and that is not going to help us.

I judge that it is a bad idea ,, although in bitcoin that transactions far apart ,, get bitcoin with the results of its own effort is better and more felt the result ,,, because we are feeling from the beginning until we get bitcoin ,, though little ,,,

Bribing using any currency is bad idea even if you want bribe using crypto currency your trying to saving culprit as well your misusing the revolutionary change in the currency.

You guys are not Living in the real world Bribing is just standard operating procedure  in many parts of the world .Better ask the person your Bribing if they take bitcoin first .Image if your waiting for a big wad of cash and someone hands you a usb key stick instead  ;D

I would like to say that right the spellings because it is not that much correct as you expecting from yourself as you talk about crypto currencies then everybody use to get more profit. Because grammar mistakes can make people misunderstand

Indeed, a bribe in the form of a crypto currency will be very difficult to prove for law enforcement agencies. Perhaps, for this purpose it will be used in the future. This is freedom of choice and freedom of financial activity for all citizens.

Bad idea with BTC.
Use Monero! ;)

 because they consider it the safest way but no evil shall escape from law enforcement even if Bitcoin is considered as a means of transaction safest thing to do Crime will definitely be wafted by their law enforcement so do not try to do anything like wise. ::) ::) ::)

Bitcoin will help many things illegal to do in a perfect way without the support of third parties. This makes bitcoin destructive of its future as more people use for bad than good needs. Such thoughts to use bitcoin into bribery need to be eliminated. Currently people prefer investing than currency. 8)

Do not have to do that kind of thing because it will cause the polemic that appears even to Make bitcoin performance slower.Better we run only all the requirements that must be obeyed in order to create calm conditions and make the existence of bitcoin more advanced in the next year.

This is why government is afraid of cryptocurrencies, they can't locate that for which purpose it is being used and by whom due to their anonymous transactions.
You think that a bad/negative thing could be a good idea? I strongly disagree with you in this regard because what is wrong is always wrong no matter what are the circumstances, so better to avoid such unethical acts which oppose law.

bribing is not good whether it refers to bitcoin or in terms of cash.yes,you cannot see bribing done through bitcoin because of user anonymous nature and person to person direct transactions,still make a healthy environment and be ethical

First of all, bribing is not a good idea. It is consider a crime depending on the weight of the situation. Second, if you will bribe a person, how sure are you that he or she knows Bitcoin? What if he or she don't know a thing about it? You need to teach him/her first. Much better to just HODL your Bitcoin or use it in a better investment. Let's help to change the way how some people think about Bitcoin. Let's use it for a better world.

Simply put,  no.  While you can do it anonymously though mixers,  it's still not legal and a bad idea.

Why do you want to bribe at first place and I think no country has a policy of bribing it. its illegal and you can be put behind the bars. DO not use any means for illegal purpose whether its btc or cash etc. The reason why btc is created is not for bribing but to make life easier using the technology of block chain across globe.

bribing statements with bitcoin are very unwise to me personally, because in my country bitcoin has not been fully used for official payment instruments

I think bribing by bitcoins is a very good idea.  As bitcoins is a worldwide crypto currency and digital payment system and the integration of some of the blockchain technology. Bitcoin is continously growing.  As bitcoins offers some benefits like no third person involvement in bitcoins exchange,  as a fees less transaction system.  Which allows them to transfer from one account to another.  Any person can bribe anyone without letting others  knowing that they bribe.  No fear of government pr authorities.  As by these ways bitcoins are promoting corruption.

We all know bribing is a bad idea or bad habbit of you do it. Because it is bad if you want something and you desperately doing bad things to have that. and you do not know who will suffer or who maybe can suffer in the end because of that action.

Bribery as we all know is illegal. But for someone to use Bitcoin as a means of bribery must be a costly bribe.

Bribery is a bad thing doing and using any currency at all is bad, then using bitcoin for bribery is badly terminating the image of bitcoin and giving room for people to be convinced that it is really used for evil things and doings.

Pretty good idea, but bribing is not a good thing to do from a moral standpoint.

Bribing is a bad idea itself, the act of bribing can put you in more mess than you expect, just make sure you always do the right thing and have no need to bribe anyone.