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In bitcoin's pyramid scheme, criminals have exploited the greed of people's ignorance and dreams of the currency. The essence of pyramid selling is a ponzi scheme, where a bitcoin is not fundamentally different from a tulip or a box of cosmetics.


In the event of an hacker blackmail, criminals use the anonymity of the currency, trying to escape legal sanction, COINS and cash here, there is no essential difference between just more convenient, lower cost.


In money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist crimes, criminals use the anonymity and high mobility of bitcoin to hide the flow of funds, which is the same as the effect of using cash.

participating in haypah, I lost less money, but the fact that bitcoin is a clever pyramid, I doubt.

And who is to blame? The coin or the people and their ignorance?
The tool is never responsible! It's an inanimate object. That gun that needs you to aim and fire, that knife that needs you to hold it. And you can use it to do good or bad, just like money can be used to pay for an assassination, or to buy your girl flowers.


What are you talking about? What's the cost of using cash? AFAIK there's none. So how can BTC be cheaper to use than cash?

Which must mean that you're against cash? Is cash a bad thing? Should it be banned just because criminals are using it?

This is a typical example of a banking fud. Where did you get that you can anonymously change bitcoins to Fiat. That isn't possible. Criminals know it too and therefore will never use this currency for criminal purposes. Maybe you want to say that criminals commit crimes and keep their bitcoins for the future? Lol.

So much fails in this post.
Why did you create this thread?

I could not say  that bitcoin is a criminal tool.  Bitcoin could not actually be blamed for how people use it. Even fiat currency or any other things can be used by criminals but could not be named as a criminal tool.  Bitcoin transactions may be anonymous but not totally unknown and they are aware of this.

Pretty sure this section has some rules which state "Stop creating low quality posts." This counts as one of them. Do your research and understand how Bitcoin works first of all.

Just an FYI to you guys, Bitcoin is pretty known to not be as anonymous as you think.  It's pseudonymous, and if you buy through exchanges that are KYC compliant (ex: Coinbase), then those coins are now officially tied to your name/bank account, no matter if you send it to someone else, another wallet you have, or mix them.

If users use this in bad reasons then its possible but proclaiming that bitcoin is a criminal tool is a bit overwhelming since we dont know if its true or not. We need proof or evidence if that situation truly exists. With that we dont need to panic because as long as good users is more than the selfish ones then its next to impossible that bitcoin is a criminal tool.

"Bitcoin is a terrorist tool because some criminals may use it"

Then so is the food we eat, because other criminals may eat it too. So are the roads, because they drive on it too. So is a currency in your pocket because a criminal may have touched it.

According to the president of the Blockchain Intelligence Group, Shona Ansti, the share of illegal transactions in bitcoins fell from about 50% to 20% of their total volume in a year. Nevertheless, in absolute figures, the volume of such transactions increased significantly during this period. Thus, bitcoin continues to be widely used by the underworld, which is explained by the ability to convert this crypto currency into cash relatively easily and quickly.

No bitcoin is not a criminal tool..!
Bitcoin transaction is secure transaction, there is not only one bank or agency to control bitcoin. That's why nobody can't track bitcoin transection. On that's reason criminal are use bitcoin. But this is not the problem of bitcoin.

Bitcoin can be used as a criminal tool. And I believe that in the dark web, bitcoin serves as the main currency in order to buy drugs, guns and etc. Also, in other news, people tend to hack people with lots of bitcoin hiding on their btc wallets. So it could be a criminal tool.

This is not a crime, but it all depends on the country (there are countries where cryptocurrencies are prohibited). But this is a high-risk investment, you should not forget about it when investing in cryptocurrencies.

It can be because its hard to trace the owner of account especially if bitcoin is not legalize in your country.

There are good sides and bad sides of everything in this entire universe. If we just focus on the bad side we'll miss out its advantages. Bitcoin surely can be used for criminal activities but it is more convenient for the people than fiat or any other alternative because it hands over its complete control to its owner and also makes some people earn a good amount of side money which completes their desires or help some to secure their future.

We can't say that it is a criminal tool because many people uses bitcoin for good or  bad transaction.

Bitcoin is also like our conventional currency wherein anyone can use it whether in good or bad transactions. Bitcoin can be very powerful when in terms with transactions. The peer to peer transaction makes it more powerful. Bitcoin can be used by criminals in buying firearms, etc. because it is easier to transact and it is very private with bitcoin as compared with cash.

after every fall people start to find conspiracy, and after every raise they believe if bright future

Since Bitcoin is opened to everybody, and doesn't care if the users are bad or not it can really be a tools for illegal purposes that's the reality thing happen. And there are some of the bitcoin abusers doing this things and it can't be stop because of pseudonymous concept it has.

Bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme in any angle. If you are thinking so, then you don't have much knowledge about the blockchain technology. But since you are thinking it as a pyramid scheme, you are welcome to transfer your bitcoins to me. I promise to take good care of them. 


Do you think criminals activities did not happen when bitcoin wasn't there? Criminals will always be there, in every form and every true sense. But that doesn't mean to discourage the common people like us.


Again same question. Do you think these crimes can't be done through cash? Obviously yes! Criminals will always try to use new technology to hide their trails. But what about us, the common people? Should we stop using it because some drug mafia has started using bitcoin? Speak sense!

Are we talking about fiat?? It sounds the same,, likely..

Illegal activities related to bitcoin is not what it is made for,, but anyone with criminal characteristics are abusing it for money.. Does fiat and bitcoin are different,, definitely not.. What is better in both currency,, the fiat that controlled by the elites or bitcoin that is decentralized and is dependent only to demand and supply.. It is up to you to choose..

if you have some kitchen knife to cutting some vegie or meat to cook but the knife instead using to kill people ? is that kitchen knife is a criminal tool ?
ofcourse not, someone made/invent new tool to make human easier to doing task, the purpose is for the good one not for bad, and einsten made atom is for good purpose but some evil mean people using that to make some creepy exploding masscare
so using bitcoin wisely

Bitcoin fall is a very common news now in a few days.I think bitcoin can not scam but its price ups and down is going to be a crime now.Bitcoin is not a criminal tool but suddenly it is create many problems.

About money laundering, actually some are being arrested because they don't know the limit they need to withdraw with in a day, most of people caught of money laundering are innocent about the sin they've done since they don't have enough knowledge on proper way of withdrawing a lot or big money in a day. But bitcoin is not a criminal tool, some are just using it for crimes.

Bitcoin is a tool for crimes, no doubts, but black market, slavery, assassinations and money laundering existed long before bitcoin, there always will be something criminals would use. It is important to mention that bitcoin is a tool for many important illegal organisations like wikileaks too. Soon all our transactions will be printed at the suitable govermental agency.  :D

I believe it can be use as a tool for pyramid scam but people can invest now on their own, online. I don't think you need to trust other people to invest you in the market. You can do it your self.

I am not agree, because bitcoin one kinds of crypto coin and bitcoin is fund of bank. bitcoin control money market in the world. many country use bitcoin available. if Bitcoin was the tool of crime, then all countries prohibition bitcoin.

Bitcoin can you in both condition. People use it for both bad and good thing. It depends upon people mentality. Bitcoin is ban in many country due to certain criminal activity :). First of all Bitcoin is mainly used by many terrorist organisation and anti social people for illegal money transaction. Bitcoin provide its user an uninterrupted money transaction in and no one can trace that transaction :-X. And it also used for many other criminal activity like kidnapping, murdering, childprongraphy etc. And many bad people use Bitcoin  to fraud  innocent people. So these are some criminal activity that related with Bitcoin.  :D

It is certainly not a criminal tool, but anti-social elements are using it in their own benefit. It is not the fault of bitcoin. It is definitely a project for the future.

Since bitcoins is volatile which has no fix price. People may consider "volatile" as disadvantage but i believe its a big Advantage of bitcoins. If volatile won't exist we'll never earn easy money with btc. Leave alone if its used positive or negative, its people fault and not the bitcoin's.

I do not think,this may be the case with Bitcoin it may also be in the case of general money.People can use Bitcoin in many ways to meet their needs.I do not agree with Bitcoin use of the crime.

It's definitely the fault of the people and their ignorance and even without the existence of bitcoins, criminals have always and will always find ways and means to blackmail, con and steal from people whiles being anonymous.

Bitcoin was not coin to be use for criminal purpose, but every good thing will always have it's  disadvantage, for us that use bitcoin for legal purpose, the privacy advantage is quit cool, but this gives room for criminals who take advantage of this to increase there access to arms, ammunition,and drugs.

yes some point your right, some people use bitcoin in bad ways, like scamming and other bad activities connected to bitcoin.

Some people might be using bitcoins for criminal purpose but you cannot name it a criminal tool because of that. Some people also use cash for illegal activities, will you stop using it as well ?

Since bitcoin is decentralized digital currency, it can be used for criminal purpose. But one thing we must remember- knife is used for medical surgery as well as robbery. We can not claim knife as criminal tool, rather we should be careful regarding its usage. Similar is bitcoin. Good use of it can ease our life.

It's the person who holds/uses Bitcoin make him a criminal, it depends on how you use it. We all have the decisions if we'll going to use it on bad things, or to use it for good. Proper usage and handlinh of bitcoin is what we need to stay in good track.

Just because some people are using it for illegal activities, you cannot blame bitcoins. What about the other benefits associated with bitcoins like the huge returns it has given in past.

Maybe those criminals use this bitcoin to buy alot of cocaine, weeds, and marijuana to sell it to other peoples. They have possiblity to become rich or a millionare someday but they are not really careless on ehat they doing everyday or every night. Actually they will do it when the sun comes down it will be starting to earn some bitcoin and money to buy anything that they wanted...

People are criminal tools.
People uses a magnificent invention for their dirty jobs, just because of its safety.

If bitcoin is a criminal tool than so is any other currency like dollar a criminal tool. Also dollar is used by terrorists and criminals for laundering money, does that make it also a criminal tool? Calling bitcoin a criminal tool is just to create bad press for bitcoin by the banksters as bitcoin threatens their monopoly over money.

Monero is already more of a criminal tool. Bitcoin has already become less anonymous in this matter

No bitcoin is not a criminal tool as most of the people using it are common people. It is actually one of the best things mankind has ever seen and is very promising.

Perfect hit back bro. I see many shit people keep on says bitcoin is illegal world tool to buy the drugs and other things. I knew that Dollar has been widely used to hide their black money on Swiss banks and elsewhere.
There are many people still having their fund dollar with their hidden undergrounds, their country's taxation department missed to get that and just blaming bitcoin is doing criminal work. 
I believe banks are fraud then bitcoin. May be much better than any money and transaction medium.

Yes, I will agree with your conclusion,  it depends upon the user of the bitcoin if He or She has a bad or good intentions of this cryptocurrencies. I think bitcoin is design for good reasons,  but we can not also control those people who has a bad influences like terrorist,  the criminals, drug syndicates and etc.They like to use bitcoin as payment to their transaction, because they can not easily monitored by our law inforcement agency.because bitcoin is decentralized.

I think bitcoin is not a considerable a criminal tool because as you can see it can help many people in making some money and profit also an income to use it by some people in many things and many ways
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Bitcoin being anonymous has created a good criminal tool for the criminals so that they could easily cheat and fraud the innocent people with their Ponzi schemes and other criminal activities. Crimes like Drug Dealing, Buying the arms and ammunition and Money laundering is been made a successful business with the help of the Bitcoin and other crypto coins. Just fearing what will happen when terrorists are going to make use of this activities with the help of the bitcoin.

This is a sticky argument. Bitcoin is a tool being used by criminals to perform their stuff. Not 100% true, but it is for some scenarios. We can't do anything if people decides to pay with bitcoin. The same people may use other money, like dollars or pounds. That makes them criminal tools?

Everything can be used for a criminal action. Even such harmless things like a pen can be used to stab someone in the eye! Bitcoin wasn't made for criminals but so wasn't the internet and it's being used to hack and steal data as we speak. Should we really care that while all people are using cars to drive around some other guy filled his car with explosives and blew it up? World isn't perfect!

People are stupid, that's their biggest weapon. No matter if they use Bitcoin, knife, gun or a rocket launcher.
It has always been like that and it will be in the future.

In addition to criminal activities, bitcoin is also used for tax evasion as it ensures absolute anonymity.

First, bitcoin paid the most in darknet. But now he is not so good for these purposes. I think that anonymous cryptocurrencies are used as a payment for all sorts of criminal things, not bitcoin.

No, the dollar is a criminal tools used by corrupt governments.  As a wise man once said “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

It is certainly not a criminal tool .
It's just a digital decentralised crypto currency

Though it is used by some past criminal events like silkroad sites as a mode or payment because of its anonymous nature but that does not make it a criminal tool .
Every currency has been used as a mode to fund criminal activities, not just bitcoins in their respective regions.

Bitcoin is not a tool for criminals, why don't you ask the same question for dollar or euro or any FIAT. FIAT money is tools for criminals and cryptos are tools for preventing criminals from robbing us.

Bitcoin is calculated both for artists and for small transactions, and also took on the armory of virtual money and representatives of the criminal world (on the fashionable notion fraudsters are making profit), and quite the very few require them to pay ransom.

Bitcoin is a payment technology having some more benefits as compared to that of traditional payment system and if it is providing more benefits then but obviously everyone would use it if they are comfortable with it so in the case of crime, no one can stop criminals from using Bitcoin (or any currency including fiat for that matter) so blaming Bitcoin for criminal activities is baseless in my opinion.

opinions that make sense too and can be trusted.
only people who are negative thoughts that make btc a means of exchange of goods that should not be exchanged, so we as bitcoin users should be thought positive and used for day-to-day useful.

I believe that this statement is not true why do you see only the bad side?

With knife you can make a launch or you can kill someone!  You can make million similar compares, and you can make tools to look good or bad in each of that examples. This is million and first topic about this and I can't believe how stupid people can be to fall on such stupid and ignorant stories about bitcoin and how criminals use it for their evil agendas, like terrorists and criminals didn't exist before bitcoin.
Spinning news is what we have here, most of the people in this world are stupid and fall on this, they allow rumor's and fake news to shape their mind and their perspective. Tool is a tool in what purpose will be that tool used depends from who holding it, remember that and I hope we will never see similar topic again, it's stupid that we need to explain that over and over again.

Bitcoin is not a criminal tool. Bitcoin is just an online currency! And yes bitcoin is used by the criminals but the way they are using it is not saying that bitcoin is a criminal tool. It depends on the people how they will ise bitcoin. Either in the good or bad.

How can you say that? Bitcoin is not really anonymous. Think of it, a lot of criminals are still being caught even if they are using Bitcoin. It can still be traced, you just need to search for that to know it.

Bitcoin is not a criminal tool either since Bitcoin is not really a currency to be used in such activities. There's just a lot of people that are taking advantage of these digital currency to escape their illegal activities such as money laundering.

Either you don’t know about pyramid scheme or may be you are unaware of bitcoin. None of the characteristics and feature of bitcoin matches with pyramid scheme or model.
Nothing is perfect, everything has some pros and cons, The thing you need to observe is bitcoin has low disadvantages as compare to advantages.
Along with the anonymity bitcoin is decentralized which make it more attractive because public is annoyed with the current monopolised banking system.

Bitcoin is a currency just like  dollars. There will always be criminals and no one can control how people choose to use or abuse a currency. It's not a criminal tool and whatever way it is used is the responsibility of the user.

I don't buy into the assertion that bitcoin is a ponzi scheme but I can quite agree that bitcoin is use as a tool in the hand of criminals because bitcoin can be used and a payment for arms drugs and other criminal activities just like every other currency is being used e.g dollars and all other of our traditional faint paper money can also be use for such illegal purposes.

It is not bitcoin the one that kills people, it is those people because they want or they have to. Of course they have to find the best way to hide their money and then launder them but that doesnt mean bitcoin was created to help them for illegal activities. Bitcoin is just a more aaccessible tool but it is not the most important one because if bitcoin was never created people would also commit crimes or sell drugs and they would find another way to hide and then launder their money. The problem starts from those people that fo such bad things and it cannot be solved so it is inutile to blame bitcoin or anything else for what happens

Everything is a criminal tool if used by the wrong people and for the wrong reasons , there is no such system that is flawless there will walkways be people trying to go around it and exploit it, and bitcoin is no different, it is true that it provides anonymity which is good way for criminals to do all their illegal activities without being traced, but it also helps people who are not using it for illegal stuff to keep their identity and personal information from being stone, the point is for every con there is a pro and in my opinion it all depends on the person using it.

Yes, there would be a big possibility that Bitcoin will be used for illegal activities. But, is it Bitcoin's fault? Criminals will always find a way, even without Bitcoin. So, let's not put the blame to cryptocurrency. Nothing is made for evil. It's the people who used it that makes it bad.

Is it that tool which exploites the world in wrong manner or the means which use it in that way.Similarly humans are responsible for neglience use of bitcoin by using it on Criminal activities. The coin which is the future of payment system based on the blockchain technology is now being used by some anonymous in illicit manner line drugs, smuggling and payment for them. A weapon is never dangerous unless used in wrong way. A shot cannot be fired until you pull the trigger.

I would want to liken cryptocurrency to fire arm(Gun). Use of gun is good at the same time bad. It all depends on whose hand it is in. If bitcoin like gun finds its way to the hands of the bad people, it would be used for bad thing. If it finds its way to the hands of the good ones, it would be used for good.

Any currency in the hands of criminals is a criminal tool. Fiat money the government can monitor and track.Illegal transactions in cryptocurrency are anonymous and carried out without intermediaries.To hide their illegal profits criminals keep them in bitcoins or withdraw in avory.It is considered that the main feature of the digital currency is its anonymity. But that's not quite true. She has her flaws.For example, a trade always leaves a trail that cannot be deleted.The information on the blockchain is open to the public. Only instead of the name of the owner is known the number of the purse. Up to a certain point it can be anonymous. However, if desired, you can track suspicious transactions and set the user name.

Bitcoin is not a criminal tool. It is just a currency online with a value. It is not a criminal tool because it was not made purposely to be used by criminals. Though it is not a criminal tool but it has the potential to be used that way since that depends on the user how to use it. Given the decentralized and anonymous feature of bitcoin it could be on the liking of criminals and for that the government has placed regulations on the use of bitcoin to combat monetary violators and criminals.

No I can not agree on this. Because Bitcoin has both good and bad aspects.There is  reverse reaction to everything. Bitcoin and so on. It is not for anyone to blame Bitcoin for it if someone uses Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin is better than bad. Moreover, many countries are banning this crypto which is unexpected. Everyone forgets the benefits of Bitcoin. If Bitcoin is the tool of crime then good deeds and directionals .Therefore, without banning the Bitcoin, it will reduce the crime against Bitcoin. There is no need for anyone to use Bitcoin to do evil things. Everyone has to be aware of Bitcoin.

Is bitcoin a criminal tool? Well, it may be. Is a lady stocking a criminal tool? Well, it may be, beacuse it may be used to rob a bank and even worse it may be used to attract males to a female sex-worker.

Do you see how absurd it is even to ask such questions? Even sun glasses may be a criminal tool because they hide one's identity...

You could argue anything is a criminal tool, usd cash has got to be the most widely used criminal tool in the world. At least with bitcoin you are not senseless wasting resources on a piece of paper. With bitcoin there is a trail so if someone finds the transaction it can be traced.

Wake up. This is a new banking technology. Bitcoin offers decentralized technology, we can control our money self and send over the world with custom fees as we want. I seen many company and bank are in trouble with this, why we should think about the negative things cause some people using it as illegal doing, let's talk about how many advantages that bring in with and how this technology can be implemented for country with business regulation.

if he isnt Fud,for sure he is a troll and we must not give him a damn..this kind of people are paid to make panic,but sad to say hes not capable of doing such and still bitcoin price grow as minutes passed.maybe in a couple of weeks we can see changes and maybe growth that all of us awaited

The anonymity imposed by blockchain technology on bitcoin users does provide opportunities for people who want to commit crimes such as fraud and money laundering. But, if we look at the purpose of the emergence of bitcoin then we will know that bitcoin was created to be the solution to the problems of world economic transactions. Although the goal is good, we still have to be careful of those who want to commit a crime using bitcoin let alone the wallet used in the form of virtual (digital) vulnerable to hack if we do not use various security facilities available.

This is something a kind of question that having a negative issue about bitcoin. For me, how can bitcoin as a tool of any criminal acts? Although bitcoin has a good contributions to all people who access and knows about bitcoin. However, bitcoin can be use as a term of payments to any actions of criminalities, but does not mean that bitcoin are having any liabilities on what any acts of criminalities. The liabilities are only beyond those people who used bitcoin and acts any bad actions that against the law of government.

In fact, everything has a good and bad two aspects. It depends on personality Because if anyone uses anything, all the way will be open to him. Besides, if a person uses Bitcoin's honest behavior without using it, then its responsibility is not of Bitcoin. Because the good aspects of Bitcoin are more visible. Whoever has a bad intention, can not accept anything better. So it can be said that Bitcoin is not a criminal device. It depends on the user.

I think that bitcoin is not a criminal instrument in its essence but simply a common currency that can also be used as its purpose and can be used by any

if I think the crypto world is really helpful to the community how many people who have become millionaires or their economic life has improved since investing in bitcoin .
if anyone had said the criminal crypto world was up to them.
the most important is proof is not just a rumor .

In this world full of unknown people and doubts it isn't new for us to doubt the safety and to everything that is navigated in means of the security of things that we own and will be owning. But, for the given references and the proven works gathered and given by bitcoin, we can see the trust and reliability given by its affiliates to it. And to think, investors have trusted their money, even millionaires does, and that is just a one good reason to think that bitcoin isn't a criminal tool.

However, regardless of whether you believe cryptocurrency is all about facilitating crime vs. crime being but a small, unfortunate side effect of the rise of crypto coinage, there’s no arguing with the fact that global law enforcement recognizes that cryptocurrency is the criminal’s playground.

In fact, four primary areas of criminal activity lend themselves to cryptocurrency: tax evasion, money laundering, contraband transactions, and extortion – not to mention the theft of cryptocurrency itself, which is all too easy with Bitcoin.


Cryptocurrencies have actually led to a massive cat and mouse game with law enforcement, as agencies get better at identifying criminal behavior, while criminals come up with new evasion techniques and increasingly anonymous cybercurrencies in order to defeat the efforts of law enforcement.

While much of this innovation in the greater cybercurrency/blockchain arena aligns with the interests of criminals, there is another side to this story: the increasing recognition that law enforcement requires its own technological innovation in order to keep up.

Definitely not, Bitcoin is just a money or internet money in the world that we can use to buy something but in other side bitcoin is easy to use in many transaction even in criminal activity but is not enough reason to say bitcoin is just a criminal tools.

Yes, you may say that. But just like anything else, everything can be a criminal tool so long as the actor utilizes the same to proliferate illegal causes. Hence, you would have to qualify further if you would like to delve more on the possibility of Bitcoin being used as a criminal tool. I would say, however, that using Bitcoin per se does not amount to doing criminal acts. In the same vein, I can say that not using Bitcoin is no guarantee that one is not doing illegal acts. By all means, Bitcoin, paypal, among others, are definitely designed to be a payment system. But as to how people will utilize the same for any other causes, that is no longer within the control of the one who created it.

I do not think so, because while Bitcoin users can withhold their identities, they can’t avoid revealing other information that can be useful to investigators. Every Bitcoin transaction is recorded on its blockchain, a publicly accessible record of all transactions made using the currency.

Blockchain technology is created for the world to be better, but that's what humans are always there is evil wherever we are. Utilizing the advantages of a technology for something bad and irresponsible that name is greedy and evil. This is the advantage of a technology that also becomes a weakness.

depending on you take advantage of bitcoin. if you are a law-conscious person. of course, would not do such a thing.
for ponzi scheme. you have to learn the bitcoin journey and its technological form again. do not let your logic go upside down just because of the oblique news of some people who do not like bitcoin.

In bitcoin fiat's pyramid scheme, criminals have exploited the greed of people's ignorance and dreams of the currency. The essence of pyramid selling is a ponzi scheme, where a bitcoin fiat is not fundamentally different from a tulip or a box of cosmetics.


In the event of an hacker blackmail, criminals use the anonymity of the currency, trying to escape legal sanction, COINS and cash here, there is no essential difference between just more convenient, lower cost.


In money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist crimes, criminals use the anonymity and high mobility of bitcoin fiat to hide the flow of funds, which is the same as the effect of using cash.

Many public misconceptions about the many uses of Bitcoin by criminals, but the thought is wrong thinking. This thinking is caused by the large number of people who think that Bitcoin is anonymous, when in fact Bitcoin is so opposed to it - all transactions Bitcoin transparent and everyone in the world can see the ongoing Bitcoin transaction. People may not be able to connect a particular individual identity to a Bitcoin transaction directly (this is why sometimes Bitcoin is also called pseudo anonymous), but if they find it, then they can see all the transactions you have done on the Bitcoin network. This is why Bitcoin is the wrong way if you use it for things that are not true.

Bitcoin is not a criminal tool, it was designed to do good in this world. But, if people use it for criminal purposes, it's not the Coin's fault. Just like money is used for good and bad things.

Bitcoin is no pyramid scheme. I guess you are no investor or someone who listens to other people's opinion, loses money and call bitcoin a pyramid scheme. Well, please use your time on something you really love and understand, that would help you to be successful. Please stop wasting your time on Bitcoin. Let us, the matured people, handle Bitcoin.

Quite a strange name in this topic. you can draw an analogy and ask a question. Is the dollar a criminal tool.
Everything depends on the goal and not on the means of achieving this goal. correct me if I'm wrong

I do not considered bitcoin  a criminal tool , its function is just like money only that it is a cryptocurrency which has property to gain profits depends upon the value of the market, if syndicate uses bitcoin as price the labor doing crimes we can not hold that because bitcoin holder has the right ,how and when he or she spend his bitcoin, it is only the payment of every job done , its just a simple medium of exchange.

Bitcoin has a variety of uses, most notable being the fact that its used as a means of paying for goods and services, you cannot limit the people who uses it for whatever reason so if criminals are using it, there is little that can be done about it,But BTC is not a criminal tool

It all depends upon the holder itself. Just like other things. The purpose of the bitcoin not for criminals, their goal to be the welfare of the people. If there is a plurality of persons who abuse the bitcoin bitcoin, not bitcoin to blame. But the people who hold the bitcoin.

yes it can be a tool for illegal transactions, actually anything of value can be a tool for schemes and all kinds of illegitimate activities, it depends on the persons transacting that tool, even cash is an obvious tool for such acts, that is why i think regulating bitcoin transactions is needed, if it is regulated, backed by laws or legalities, we can lessen this kind of awful schemes. since bitcoin is just a tool with so much potentialities, almost everything can be done just like on cash or fiats. again, it is based on human intervention. bitcoin can good or bad, depending on the user.  

I don't mean to disable Bitcoin either. I just wanted to say: "Bitcoin is a criminal tool." This is not a nonsense but a fact we have to face. Whether it is a technology developer or a policy maker, it is necessary to recognize this matter instead of holding high the "innocence of tools" as a shield.

Bitcoin naturally comes with concealed aura, which is easy for criminals to launder money, so don't wash this place. It is a dark property. It is not necessary to not admit it.
But there are more dark attributes, LEGO toys also have dark attributes, why do you still use bitcoin? Because Bitcoin is convenient!

I agree with you, all Depending on one hand, as well as real money, many are often used for crime, but many people are turning on that person, why this is the opposite instead most people who think bitcoin is the illegal transaction penyebatnya or for use as illegal materials. but we know each person is different there is a positive nature there is also a negative ..

bitcoin is criminal tool because criminal transfers large amount of money through bitcoin. there was no any investigation if money.

Bitcoin is not a criminal tool. It is a digital currency. If you want not to be scammed, think before you click as simple as that. We can't blame bitcoin in that situation. You are responsible in performing transactions, so be careful .

This is one prejudice that follows bitcoin from the begininig. But bitcoin isn't criminal tool although could be used for criminal and illegal activities, like any other currency btw. Maybe is just more convenient than fiat currencies because it's still harder to track bitcoin transactions.
Every individual should take responsibility for its own actions, including those with criminal character, and the blame for something like that shouldn't be put on the whole instrument, like bitcoin could be.

Based on its decentralized and anonymous nature, Bitcoin is inherently a tool suitable for crimes - please note that I am not saying that the original intention of the person who invented Bitcoin is to use it to commit crimes, nor is it to say that all its users are It is crime. Based on the limited number of features and the above-mentioned anonymity and decentralization characteristics, I prefer that the original intention of the inventors is to design a drum  flowering scam that can maximize their own security (or any profit). It was not intended to be used for illegal purposes such as money laundering in the first place.

Bitcoin has been very dark. After all, Bitcoin is anonymous. You use Bitcoin to trade just like cash, and there are no real-name records such as online banking, Alipay, and WeChat.

Bitcoin is not a criminal but bitcoin is an electronic currency, it can be said to be the initial bitcoin of a criminal, such as account theft, theft of money and so on, so bitcoin can be said to trigger a criminal form

Bitcoin can be a criminal tool as much as cash. The cash is even worse because it has absolutely no traceability. Bitcoin, on the other hand, even if many transactions are anonymous, has some form of traceability

It could be ... just as fiat or any other type of payment a criminal may ask for. However, Bitcoin is not anonymous, it is pseudonymous. Sure, it might be harder to track, but it does not grant you the anonymity you incorrectly mention.

Bitcoin is just a currency that exists in digital form and due to its anonymity, many people use it in illegal activities but that does not mean, bitcoin is the culprit. It was never created for this purpose. Besides, many other currencies and assets are also misused this way. Like you said, it is not the fault of these inventions but the people who have wrong aims. Bitcoin has helped many people in earning good profit. That should also be counted here.

It's possible to be used into something evil. Since it's decentralized and people can transact without showing their real identity.

no. how we use investing is the most appropriate

I don't think so. Only a small fraction of bitcoin is used by criminals. I don't think bitcoin is a criminal tool. If criminals use cash crimes, and whether cash is a criminal tool, I think the answer is no, cash is not a criminal tool.

Yes Bitcoin has many advantages in trading and investment in our currency market. Bitcoin is not just good direction. These coins are sometimes used by terrorists in their illegal activities. Because terrorists feel safe to deal with these coins, So bitcoin is said to be the criminal tool.

All types of currencies are used by criminals to carry out their nefarious activities, I don't think it's peculiar to bitcoin alone although the anonimity that comes with bitcoin helps them to hide their money and their funding.

That is right, so don't blame bitcoin if criminals are using it, we cannot force them not to do so or stop using bitcoin as for sure they also seen this as an opportunity to hide their identity so that police officials will find them hard.

This is really possible but it was the same as fiat, if cash will be used for illegal transactions then it was consider as a tool for criminal so they should not say that bitcoins is the reason for criminal rate to increase since it was just the same as fiat.

It is true. Basically, it depends on the user. All tools can be used as a crime tool if the user is a criminal. However, because bitcoin is not yet recognized worldwide, then when there is a crime that uses bitcoin it becomes exciting news, so many people point out that bitcoin is bad.

Well people are called criminals because they commit crimes usually for money right? Bitcoin is just a tool for exchange and is free for all so whether you are good or bad, you can use it however you want. Just like fiat it can be used to commit crimes.

I once discussed this issue through my thread. you can check at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2692758.msg27505486#msg27505486. I emphasize again, try to change our mindset about bitcoin. because the fact is not the bitcoin used for criminals. criminals always have a way for all their crimes, try to read my thread for more details

Actually other possibilities exist on classic currincies. But I'm worrying for this part.

"In the event of an hacker blackmail, criminals use the anonymity of the currency, trying to escape legal sanction,"

We use dollar for exchanging the goods and services.  We can use it as good and bad way. In this world everything has good and bad site. It’s depend on the uses. In this sense, we can agree as a criminal tools. We know Bitcoin is the one kind of technology having some extra benefit that doesn’t not mean it’s a criminal tools.
.On that contrary it’s an easiest tools for the criminal. They can transaction easily and safely that’s why it’s also popular to the criminal.  You also agree with me why it’s called criminal tools? Because, some of the country ban the Bitcoin because of increasing criminal activity. They use it to buy huge amount of cocaine, weeds, and marijuana to sell it to other peoples. And also use it as the serious activity like murdering, kidnapping. Some of the people has the intention to fraud innocent people.

Any currency or asset can be used by the criminals and Bitcoin is no different. Bitcoin offers no added advantage to the criminals, as the transactions are easily traced through the blockchain. In fact, I would say that Bitcoin is no longer the preferred crypto for the criminals.

The way it is used by some people does not make it unimportant, because most transactions are made for a dollar, which, we will consider now, the dollar is also the precursor of the criminal world?

All form of money can be used in any activity, even the illegal one. Since bitcoin is anonymous and has decentralized feature, the people used it to maximize their illegal activity. Instead of traditional money, bitcoin allows the holder to make transaction hidden to anyone anywhere in the world. Activities such as drug selling, pornographic material selling and even the most popular crime that involves money may be done using bitcoin. This is also the reason why some countries see bitcoin as a threat to them.

The nature of Bitcoin is great. But because it is not any of the managers, users in the underworld ... so Bitcoin was used by criminals to influence the Bitcoin image in the eyes of government leaders and people. Governments and Bitcoin themselves are rapidly taking steps to ensure that Bitcoin soon affirms its true nature as serving the legitimate interests of the people.

satoshi does not make bitcoin for criminal purposes, but bitcoin is very good for some people who want to commit a crime.

and this is a weakness of bitcoin, easily used by irresponsible parties, so bitcoin will be bad in public.

the solution is that the world must make regulations about bitcoin and crypto.

THIS IS FALSE, BITCOIN IS MONEY, When are you gonna understand that? It can be used just like fiat money, or are you gonna tell me that no one buys drugs or guns with US dollars?

Came on, open your eyes, stop being so dumb to try to create FUD in here.

I dont think Bitcoin is a criminal tool because it is better source of income to us. We want to help using bitcoin not to do criminality using bitcoin. A criminal is always a criminal, bitcoin is want to help so we cannot force criminal to  prevent or stop

anything can happens, maybe they use bitcoin to do it, many advantages of bitcoin. bitcoin is secure, it is possible for illegal activities.

See but the fact of the matter is that FIAT USD (and all other currencies) are used for a ton more drug stuff then bitcoin is even used. So it's not a problem which is only present in Bitcoin, this is a world problem. The media is trying to JUST portray this as the issue because they think that they can kill bitcoin fast if they say it's just a drug currency. That will, of course, deter people from wanting to use it, invest, etc.

The media is a crazy thing, they're here for the elites to sway public opinion.

Without a doubt, the underworld uses bitcoin for illegal and hidden transactions, but bitcoin brings many more benefits than harm

Not at all, bitcoin is a public tool that everyone can use, just like money. If that's the case then I can say that fiat money is a criminal tool as well because they are using it right? In fact criminals use fiat money more than they use cryptocurrencies. The use of bitcoin for criminality is something one could not avoid. Because it is highly sought out nowadays and the profits one can get here is really high.

I think bitcoin is not a tool for keriminal, maybe it's his people who make bitcoin for things that are not good. hopefully bitcoin is not in misuse for evil.

I hope the bitcoin is not misused by the unauthorized person for the criminal tool.

I will comment you with a joke:

Cops detain the miner of bitcoins.
Cop: You laundered money with bitcoin.
Miner: No, i did not.
Cop: We found out that you have a mining farm.
Miner: Yes, i have.
Cop: So, you laundered money with bitcoin.
Miner: No, i did not.
Cop: But we found out that you have a mining farm.
Miner: Yes, i have.
Cop: But that means that you laundered money with bitcoin.
Miner: Okay, then you should blame me for rape.
Cop (shocked): Did you rape someone?
Miner (Pointing with finger at pants): No, but I have an instrument.

Actualy even paper money also a tool of criminals since the biggining this so you wont have blame bitcoin about that some criminal activities. Even without bitcoin in this world bad people always find a way to do bad thing just to satified there self.

Everything can be used for both good intentions and malicious intent. For example, nuclear power can bring enormous benefits to people in the form of nuclear power plants, as well as great harm in the form of an atomic bomb. It all depends on who owns the particular object or thing. Cars are of great benefit to people, but they can ram people, as we see recently occurred in Europe in the commission of terrorist acts. However, no one comes to mind to abandon the consequences of scientific progress. Why is there so persistently raised the topic of possible use of crypto currency for criminal purposes?

Bitcoin is certainly not a criminal tool. Anything, the same technology is two-sided. Knife can be used to cut fruit, it can also be used to commit crimes. Bitcoin is a kind of technology, depending on what kind of group it is used in, what kind of way to use it, and what kind of area it acts on.

In my own point of view, bitcoin is not a criminal tool because it is only a kind of currency unlike criminal tools like knives and guns it can literally kill a person. Bitcoin is not illegal it is only banned by other countries because they think bitcoin is bad for the economy, but in reality it really helps the economy of a country.

No, Bitcoin is not a criminal tool the criminal you said is on a person not on bitcoin because people nowadays use bitcoin to scam people and use to criminal act.

That's why bitcoin is so risky because it's clearly an anonymous,  is kinda hard to find out who will be doing the criminal or who has been already. If I can compare there are much more people using bitcoin as a good tools, and vreate their future then people using it as a criminal tools. But sometimes it's really hard to describe people's personality.

Bitcoin easy to people life. Why does bitcoin a criminal tool...

yes you are right bitcoin can be accessed by anyone and anywhere so do not close the possibility of bitcoin for it, I think it all depends on the intention and purpose of investor

There are four primary areas of criminal activity lend themselves to cryptocurrency: tax evasion, money laundering, contraband transactions, and extortion – not to mention the theft of cryptocurrency itself, which is all too easy with Bitcoin.

I think the crime existed before the bitcoin created. Whether before the crime is limited in the exercise of the action? Not right? I think is just criminal claims to drop the image of bitcoin.

Frankly speaking, all things in this world have advantages but too much abuse with its usage would lead to its disadvantageous effect. It totally depends on how responsible we are to manage them. Just like Bitcoin, it is really helpful and valuable, but there comes these people who want to sabotage its purpose. As Bitcoiners, let us be liable in everything we do, let respect rise above all and think not only for yourself, but for other people. Let us all be careful and vigilant.

Bitcoin is not a criminal tool. it would be if it was invented by criminals to orchestrate crime,it wasn't. Outlaws just happen to use BTC as a form of pay for their activities which sadly cannot be controlled as BTC is free for anyone to use

Is bitcoin a criminal tool?
No, bitcoin is a legitimate means of payment, since the sale and purchase of coins is done by no coercion from other parties.
coin earned in exchange to be currency and sent through bank account.

yes, bitcoin can be used as a criminal tool because bitcoin can be used by everyone,
good people or bad guys so do not close the possibility, bitcoin can be used as a criminal tool, like some time ago I had time to see the news, in that country there are already using bitcoin as a tool of narcotics transaction.

Nothing is criminal tool itself. It could be used by criminals, but it doesn't make the tool worse.

Bitcoin is not a criminal tools but it depends on how may use it. The sadiest thing is some ignorance people use bitcoin to illegal way. And it cause money laundering and it affect to the image mo bitcoin. The reason why bitcoin developed is to help people around the world.

long before the bitcoin created evil has existed. because evil is purely the result of human thought. there is also bitcoin as a very profitable crypto business, will not be separated from individuals who do crime plans with any mode. this is not strange and normal things are everywhere. in essence, people who will not like crypto and bitcoin will corner in various ways to get bitcoin to zero.

I really mind if bitcoin is a criminal tool?
why ,, because on the basis of the criminal was built from the offender rather than the tool.
For example, there are many bank robberies, illegal drug transactions using cash.
so I think bitcoin is just a tool, to make us successful.
only a fool if bitcoin is made into a criminal tool.

Bitcoin is it self not a criminal tool it is designed for a good purpose but if we look at the usage now days if this money comes in the hands of criminal just like other money people will use this for their reasons and i would like to show my interest in this currency because if i need to buy a software then i can buy this online and through bitcoin i can pay to them the transaction will complete without any one interference.