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Bitcoin could become illegal in all countries that bans child pornography after discovering this: https://www.sciencealert.com/bitcoin-illegal-almost-everywhere-after-shocking-blockchain-discovery-child-pornography

What can you say about it?

Bullshit.
If you bought something on Silk Road with bitcoin, the blockchain will remember it forever and possibly reveal your identity.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-drug-deals-silk-road-blockchain/

How about this?

This is some alarming article if this news is really true. I'm not that worried about some pornography and other photos inserted into the blockchain but how about destructive malwares and viruses secretly stored into your most valuable vault disaster waiting. If everyone has bitcoin worldwide (assuming it will become the next currency), who knows what happens is some nasty malware is inserted in all computers without the owner knowing. Hopefully they'll find some solution in filtering perhaps the blockchain.

By following this logic so they shall also ban the dollar, euro, pound sterling and so on... But wait, even if it happens then what? They will use another means of payment simple as that. So to continue their trip with acid, silver, gold, copper, the diamond should be banned too.

But wait, when money didn't exist people were trading (I give you tomatoes in exchange of sugar, then the sugar is exchanged for a fish and so on) Going deep into this, everything should be banned. I hope in the future we will still be allowed to breathe

The technology itself is not sinful, and the guilty ones are those who use it.
So I don't think there is a direct link between the bad guys and the bad guys on the blockchain ledger, which doesn't mean that bitcoin is bad.

Here is intersting and funny post from reddit, I guess you guys will wanna check it out: https://redd.it/86b9tn [it relates to this]


First of all of course they can track everything as blockchain within bitcoin is fully transperent. Secondly you could technically store malwares BUT they won't execute because you will have to spread the code within blocks because your malware will prob contain a lot of data. Maybe theres already one stored who knows.

If child pornography, drug dealing, gun supplies all did not exist before Bitcoin, then I could understand why Bitcoin could be banned if it was the main cause for these malpractices flourishing. The thing is these nasty habits and crimes existed for millennia in sick people's minds and actions long before Bitcoin was invented. People pay hard cold cash to do all these bad things and they do not need Bitcoin to make them easier to get. As long as we have sick people on this planet, these nasty things will not go away. Banning Bitcoin will not solve the problem , put it that way. 

If it is true then the reputation of bitcoin will be lost much after this event. Currently I can not believe this information because the article writer is not very prestigious. I just believe the information from the big and prestigious newspapers. I'm waiting for people to talk about this and make my conclusions.

The problem is that governments don't care, and if you are running a full node, they could make an argument claiming that you are holding these illegal files yourself by default if you are holding the blockchain.

If they want to screw up bitcoin's network they could come up with crazy laws like that, so people running full validating nodes should be aware of that possibility.. they could incriminate everyone hosting nodes. It's unfair but wouldn't surprise me if it eventually happens.

Most crimes are paid using US dollar. Should people ban bucks then? Bitcoin is just a tool, it is not untraceable and can be confiscated. How come US marshalls sold around 10k BTC? They took it from criminals. So nothing wrong with bitcoin, and it pisses me off that banks use this trick to put more regulation on our beloved crypto.

Bullshit, bullshit....Since there may be people without conscience, it is totally unacceptable in any medium or form in which a person uses a child in this way, all these types of people should be sentenced to death.

Child pornography, sell and buy drug and another crime activity has been there before Blockchain technology founded, I have see it at the darkweb and they use another way or their own way to make a payment.
For example if they use cash money to do crime activity, should we blame money for it? No, we can't !
So we should learn more about this problem, that is right if use bitcoin make payment at crime activity to be easier, but we should see the advantages of bitcoin for our future, bitcoin can change our future if we use it in good way.
And if all country or government banned bitcoin, crime activity can be take place at the darkweb, so that's working good if government banned bitcoin? I think that is not right choice for it.
Every technology or whatever that, that must have good sides and bad sides, so that depend by how we use it.

Pornography is already there even if Bitcoin was not yet still running. These are just some kind of lame excuses just for their own interests and nothing more. They will surely banned anything that they won't be able to make profit out of it.

can noob imbeciles ease up on the upper case for posting fud and nonsense.

why even reply to such a retarded posts

blockchain is not about to be banned because 0.001% of dirt bags that want to taint every thing they can with this stuff

next ban the internet

ban people

low level fud
/end thread

This kind of pornography set up is already involve in the deepweb that currenly are using bitcoin payment, And I really think that there are ICO that are using pornography as a source of service in there cryptocurrencyI think this is vicecoin that you can watch adult video using their platform, cryptocurrency is already tainted with this kind of things that is why this is not new if this kind of issue is involve in the system.

That's precisely the point. The problem is to use this kind of nasty activities in order to accuse bitcoin. This makes me sick, for it is another pathetic attempt of discrediting a new technology, but based, once more, on pure air.
Technology itself can't be bad, but the use humankind makes of it. If most of the humans suck, well, this is not technologys fault at all.

People will always find a way to get child pornography. They are perverted individuals who will do anything and use anything in order to fulfill their urges and it's not just peculiar to bitcoin alone.

Well, this is really bad. This is what I have been reading a lot about for the past few days, and I can say this is by far the strongest reason governments worldwide will ban Bitcoin. Nonetheless, I think governments are skeptical about outright banning considering that all things banned find its way to curb the law, thereby multiplying even more in the black market. Worse, governments do not get to tax those illegal forms of money-making enterprises. Like for instance, those of illegal drugs. Governments worldwide ban it, in general, but they know how strong the market of drugs is at present. What is killing them is the fact that no matter how strong the market of drugs is, they do not get to tax the same.

You can't delete child porn from bitcoin blockchain if it is truly there, I am not programmer so I don't and can't tell you if there really is one. If there is this picture as they state then this is awkward and I honestly can't imagine person who put this into blockchain, maybe some people think it is fun to play around but it is not. You can't stop bitcoin from operating just because there are these type of things within the blockchain. You can't stop this thing, some governments might try to suppress this but who cares at end. Me as average Joe don't care whats in there as long as i can profit and use this thing for what I need.

Hayz, another black shit staining propaganda. Why even bother?, some people with ill intention will  create a reason to hedge the progress of bitcoins. almost all of these cases are already deep rooted in the internet, and since we live in internet, why bother?. These kind of services won't stop any time soon because everyone has free access and can stored their ill gotten data on bockchain. So don't fret it's nothing new.

By the same logic, there should be a ban on the internet since it provides an effective way to find CP. Honestly, illicit activies (child pornography, drugs, money laundering, etc) have been around on the internet since forever,so the ban on bitcoin will not help stop these kind of activities, assholes will always find a way to distribute pornography.

All in all, yet another article trying to attack and discredit Bitcoin, kinda funny how it was released right after the Bitcoin price began to recover. Seems like a new round of a FUD campaign has started.

Believe it or not, there are people who read these kind of articles and actually believe whatever nonsense the media says. People should reply to these kind FUD threads so that newcomers can read the discussion so they won't panic after reading the headline "bitcoin illegal almost everywhere".

This is a ridiculous and stupid statement , which was used already years ago against bitcoin. Governments don't see it that way because they see banning bitcoin won't stop the illegal activity. If it is not bitcoin there will be something else.

Got that right. Providing guidance is a good way of a respectable senior.

The point is not to just look at Blockchain with a very bad thing because we can not judge just from one point of view, crime in all aspects must exist not only in blockchain and media and FUD like this should not be digested because that is just a statement issued by the media.

Then what does this word mean with the title of the artike above
has revealed this vast trove of data is irrevocably tainted with unremovable links to illegal child pornography, which are inevitably distributed among and by all users of the currency.
It is clear that it can not be inserted any content in it if they know, is it really we can believe it?

   how do you go about even banning bitcoin?  I reckon it will go about as well as banning torrents or weed, and the black market premium does wonders for your portfolio value.     

There's no difference between bitcoin and other currencies, people use the dollar, yuan, euro also for bad things. I just don't get it why do people still assume that bitcoin is a criminal tool in fact bitcoin is same as another currency. People who used bitcoin is a criminal not the bitcoin itself. Bitcoin and the blockchain can be used or implemented in a good thing i think it depends on who uses it.

The title is much more of a statement rather than a question. Child pornography in bitcoin and in mostly fiat is the right tittle to be exact. This article is true, but rather been use for black propaganda against crypto. It only show how desperate they were. Fiat for all we know have been used by this activity for decades and century, bitcoin is just new and it is so absurd to blame it.

Gday all :)

I don't think everyone gets the point -

This is NOT about people using BTC for bad things like child porn.

It is about bad data being stored ON THE BLOCKCHAIN itself, including :

• links to child-porn
• copies of PDF files
• an image of a partially nude young woman

Stored ON the blockchain itself.

Here is the recent scholarly paper which gives the details :
A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of
Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin (https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf)

Kapyong

This is remarkable and it is not at all a pleasant news to hear when it comes to illegal contents being saved in the blockchain, but who are these analysts and what proof are they presenting to substantiate these claims,they are just a few news sites that published this news but there are no proof on what block they found these contents and so on,if it is true,it is really unfortunate .

They can simply down the link to website.  Besides its very complicated to see.

Gday all,


The writers of the recent paper are :
Roman Matzutt, Jens Hiller, Martin Henze, Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf, Dirk Mullmann, Oliver Hohlfeld, and Klaus Wehrle.


The evidence is found in this paper :
A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of
Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin (https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf)

Are any posters here actually going to read the facts there-in ?

Kapyong

If this really the root of child pornography i think bitcoin should be banned but anything can happen even bitcoin did not exist yet because any currency can be used also in any illegal work so its the government responsibility to stop any criminal and illegal activity.

Bitcoin is just a tool for those illegal activities like pornography,drugs,guns or money laundering but it is not the cause of that activity. It is not like those activities were created after bitcoin was created just because with bitcoin is easier to make illegal activities. People do illegal things since laws were created and they are going to continue like this forever because even if you catch all bad guys new ones are going to appear.

It isn't new a thing, this has been around since bitcoin came to fame as a new payment system.
Did it stop bitcoin? No. Will these people stop from doing child pornography if there's no bitcoin? That's a big NO.

Is this a legit report? Is there really a child pornography with the use of btc?
Yes, I've been hearing it even with our local tv news. Most of them used their own child to receive crypto payments in exchange for virtual sex.

Bitcoin is just a medium, not a source. If they ban it, there is an alternative medium to continue with this illegal acts.

They always look for the faults and weaknesses of crypto to destroy the trust of Bitcoin holders.
sort of fud and they keep doing it. Anything can be used as a crime tool, it is not fair to discuss this to make noise and panic.

I really agree on your statement. We could change the main version of crypto payments by email to email or change the domain address so they won't track us easily.

Yes that is true. It is not a new thing. Bitcoin creation is meant to make freedom in money transaction. Including anonymity for everyone with no limitation such as age, the amount of money, and the amount of transaction that you make. You can do transaction with Bitcoin as much as you want with huge amount of money. Bitcoin can be use to do drug transaction and human trafficking. That is cruel and dark of course, but that is the truth of Bitcoin. The development of technology will affect both sides between good and evil. There are always positive and negative in everything especially in the development of technology. So we need to be wise to use it.

Well, Bitcoin is a currency that it can be use to both legal and illegal activities such as child pornograph. If the paper money like dollar in which a fiat currency can be use in any kind of payments for both legal and illegal then same with Bitcoin currency too. Same currencies but just different platform of payment but the good thing is we could regulate Bitcoin to avoid being used to such this illegal activity.

Governments are not that stupid. Well, some are, but banning bitcoins because of some sick individuals? I don’t think so. That’s where the anti-cybercrime and anti-child pornography units  come in.

This is a very stupid shortcut, is dollar illegal because some people use it to buy child porn ? No, so bit coin will not

Child porno is not the creation of Bitcoin or any other Crypto. It is unexpected, but it has been there from long before the Crypto idea. And not that people who are doing these kinds of heinous job won’t do it if Crypto stops forever. How you use is always the issue, not what you use to do any crime.

This is very alarming news. However,for me to those people who's having an illegal business like this can use any currency just to get what they want which is money. It depends to the person on how will they use the money/currency. So its not btc's fault or any cyrptos. Even cyrptos exist or not,crime like this is still there.

agree, any people or criminal can use any currency  not just bitcoin and crypto. infact most of them do oftenly use usd and fiat money because that may seem easy for them to handle in order to initiate a faster transaction for  them and to thier clients. however , bitcoin is lately been acepted on most porn sites and sex cams aside from credit cards and i guess this is much easier for them use rather than providing a card that exposes their true identity.

I am interested first I read the link you provide, basically this news is deliberate to derive the image of crypto and bitcoin especially blockchain. I think they do not understand, yes that's what I deserve to say to them.
in essence, if we speak the context of pornography. in the world of the Internet, without bitcoin and blockchain sex stories sex image even pornography indrustry very much at this time. so what else should we distinguish? basically environment, morals and faith is needed for someone not trapped. yes especially in Asia. so back again to the user, how he uses as wisely as possible.

They will never understand that the usual currency dollar, EU and name other currencies from different countries are also used for different type of human trafficking such as child pornography. Whoever behind this article as this isn't the only one that we've seen so far. There other articles that came out that is also the same with what the attack to bitcoin through articles and different FUDs that are making others uncertain about bitcoin, these news are false.

I am not sure whether it a real article or fake. Bitcoin itself is not a problem; rather using it wrong way is problem. Crime is an existing matter that is happening before bitcoin entered.

Well, that certain crime already existing even without bitcoin, sad to hear about that there are people who will change and give up their dignity for that certain matter.

How strange -

Most of the posters here have NO IDEA what this story is about.

No poster here seems to be aware of the scholarly paper which brought this up, which I cited twice.

This is NOT ABOUT BTC being used for child porn.

It IS about bad data being stored ON THE BLOCKCHAIN.

Is anyone paying attention ?


Kapyong

Wrong.
Have you read that scholarly paper about bad data ON THE BLOCKCHAIN ?

Kapyong

Oh shit is there anything hardship left to the path of btc that even this got struck behind us? Oh God

This is just another attack on bitcoin. Although this might be true, that there are links enclosed in the blockchain, that is no reason to ban bitcoin. It's almost impossible to find these links, even if you wanted to. Authorities are aware of that and it's likely they will not use this as an excuse to ban bitcoin. Spreading this FUD, that's what harmful to bitcoin.

And there goes all anonymity on the internet when using bitcoin. I'm not sad those buying child pornography got caught but bitcoin was supposed to be anonymous... Well, not anymore.

Probably in the future the air we breathe will be regulated... Lol
If this pornography thing is real then it's a serious issue and not be treated lightly.

Individuals will dependably figure out how to get youngster explicit entertainment. They are distorted people who will do anything and utilize anything to satisfy their desires and it's not only curious to bitcoin alone.

Is the news verified? Or one of the many fake news about bitcoin?  >:(

Didn't you read the paper ?
https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf

Has anyone here read it to check the facts ?
It appears not.


Kapyong

The "report" that may be fake.. claims that
IF you know where to look (in a 150 GB blockchain  lol  good fucking luck!)
IF you know how to reconstruct...
It is NOTHING more than a link to a website, with child abuse... it says.
It is not child porn inside bitcoin.

It is a CLAIM of a LINK, that nobody can find.
If that was real, that link would be reported, and the server taken down by authorities.

So fuck off with this fake shit

You didn't read the report, did you ?
You have no idea what it said, do you ?


The authors of the report found the data.
Do you think no-one else can ?


The method of reconstruction is well known.
Even if you can't understand it.


A link ?
Wrong - there are MANY links, over a thousand IIRC.

More wrong - go read it again.
There is an IMAGE stored ON THE BLOCKCHAIN.
Is that concept too difficult for you to understand ?


Pardon ?
Do you actually believe that 'the authorities' (WHICH authorities?) can just take down any server with child porn on it ?

If you believe that - why do you think 'the authorities' have not take down all servers with child porn on them ?

Do you have any idea how the internet works ?

In short -
you didn't read the report,
you don't know the facts,
you don't know what you are talking about.

Do you think a lot of angry swearing over-rides your ignorance of the facts ?


Kapyong

As a miner, I am not shutting one piece of hardware down over this. INTENT, that is the key word on this matter and the law better catch it up to the modern movement going on here. Figure a way out to find the source of this disgusting misuse of our blockchain but don't cop out and run amuk trying to lock every miner, node owner and so on for actions they did not create in the first place. This is getting quite frustrating, they have laws for the tax man at all of us with such confusion I am sure its all written to trip people up and now this attempt to criminalize even more on honest citizens just trying to take some financial charge of their lives. Why does it seem to me this stems from sources against crypto, feels so much like planted evidence for some reason to me. Maybe I am just a conspiracy nut. lol Issue here is two things, child abuse is an atrocity and needs to be stamped out but calling people enablers of that for running some machines to keep the flow of digital assets moving around is seriously pushing some legal limits. Second issue here, why is it they are wasting time on the innocent bystanders in this situation and not investigating deeper? I see in this they say its difficult, well doing what is right is never easy so maybe they need to get to work to arrest the idiots who done this in the first place. Hope its not another Senator or Hollywood mogul lol...probably was

That's not good many teenagers and even school goers are on btcs what would be the impact ob them after seeing this? Developer should have noticed

This should never happen. Bitcoin should do everything they can not be part of this type of wrong doings. Bitcoin is so popular and a lot of people preferred payment using bitcoin. That is why there are people who just wants to make easy money by doing something evil. I hate to say this but those pedophiles should go to jail if they participate on such things. A child's life should be meaningful and happy, this things should never happen. I am against this.

Now please don’t just talking bad about bitcoins that OMG bitcoins are being used in child pornography and all that. Everything have good and bad characteristic. Here bitcoins are being used just for their decentralized nature.

No one can trace back where the transactions have been made. So people started using bitcoins in all crimes. They must know who sensitive this case is.

LOL atleast btc did some goods by teaching students to masterbate ;)

The link that I've posted is a reliable source. I hate fake news so everything that I posted here is presented by facts and reliable source. In fact, I have another reliable source:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/22/people-are-using-bitcoins-system-to-share-child-pornography/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/22/people-are-using-bitcoins-system-to-share-child-pornography/)

This type of news, even if they are real, really discredits an economic benefit that they have given us socially. How unfortunate that they use this for something as dirty as harming children.

Even if it is happening i do not think that there is any fault of bitcoin in such situation, because if bitcoin will become totally banned, then they will change their payment method but are not going to stop the evil activities, therefore i think that government should try to catch the people who are involve in such activities, either they are using bitcoin or any other fiat currency.

This may also potentially be a threat to the public purses by injection of malwares by the means of child porns

For me,  this is not bitcoin's fault.  Yes maybe the currency or way they use to transact this specifically child pornography is bitcoin,  but what if bitcoin will be legally banned?  They will just use another way to do these things . So for me, it is not bitcoin's fault.

I have read several articles the same as the link provided. Its impossible for the blockchain to store non-financial record like some sort of pornography. The blockchain technology serves as the ledger that records all transactions made, nothing else. I dont believe in this news. Its more like spreading FUD.

Gday,


Wrong.

Here are the facts :
https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf

Kapyong

Do you know the sophistication of technology now? You can use the non-financial record and turn it into a financial record without damaging the original file thus making the blockchain thinks that it is a financial record. But like I said, it is true. It is not a FUD. People nowadays will do anything just to do their evil deeds undetected.

Is this verified or another fake news that is pulling down bitcoin. It's everyones duty to protect the children. We cannot let this happen. Maybe this will be reported and catch this people.

I can support so many project on the blockchain,  but I don't support child pornography,  that company should be closed down immediately. This is what some countries government are trying to prevent that's why they keep fighting against the Blockchain all the time, this is a free market,  but we should still be careful about what we bring to the market in other not to attract more of the attention of the sec and other government body.

If bitcoin never existed there would still be these kind of crimes, where there’s good there must be bad. And evils are everywhere it’s not about bitcoin it’s about it’s users.

I can support so many project on the blockchain,  but I don't support child pornography,  that company should be closed down immediately. This is what some countries government are trying to prevent that's why they keep fighting against the Blockchain all the time, this is a free market,  but we should still be careful about what we bring to the market in other not to attract more of the attention of the sec and other government body.

digusting!

I dont think its gone be to the bitcoins end but surely they have to secure the blockchain

It could be illegal however it can also become legal and producing tax income for government. Pornography industries has been going for decades and its not easy to counter measure that kind of propaganda, however Bitcoin didn't do anything, it only being used for illegal use just like it being used to evade tax and money laundering. People always find something interesting to do to cover their tracks and if it benefit them both then why not.  ;D ;D

Child pornography is very common in bitcoin because it is well known in the dark web and that is the reason for the other people and other government to not trust bitcoin because it is being use in the dark web so it is not a good thing for them since they cannot track down the people who uses it to do illegal transaction because anonymity is one of the features of bitcoin.

It is one more invented lever of pressure to not accept bitcoin as currency! A full nonsense! >:(

agreed with you mate, thumbs UP :)

If true, of course, that would be bad news, especially those who always use blockchain. Hopefully, all can be used properly, so the use of blockchain and crypto gets recognition everywhere. Keep up the spirits, we know, many are making bad news about blockchain and Bitcoin

Agree,we cant blame the advancement  of technology  just because of the rampant spreading of child pornography. Actually  the technology cant be blame because  of how people  abuse  it . Child pornography  are leaded by those persons who are craving for easier money and less hassle they use innocent  children's to be their  tools to earn.I am very sad that because  of technology they  able to operate,why are many dont have conscience and do this sinful things.In other hand they say some uses bitcoin in children pornography.They don't  have  evidence  that  bitcoin is being  used,and I cant also say that they  are right  because   the existence  of abuse is already  present  before bitcoin  was born.If bitcoins  was used to do sinful  things this will be awful  and inconsiderate.

Child pornography or any pornographic site should not be allowed to use bitcoin. This is when regulation must come in. Most people use  bitcoin to make even a small profit so they can have extra income. It should not be used for illegal activities such as pornography. Because of thede illegal acivities, we are bound to regulations that must've not been without these.

Child pornography, drugs, kilings, other crimes and perversions...There`s a Darknet website as some of you may know where all of it is permitted and they use bitcoins. But I think that there`s too many hype about it. Such crimes have existed for a very long time and now with the rise of digital technologies they became more accessible. And criminals use the modern currencies to hide their financial traces. But one should blame people who do it but not bitcoin, that is just an alternative payment system. Who knows what kind of currencies will be invented tomorrow and will we blame it again? As one of users wrote - blaming bitcoins for crimes is like blaming doctor for using a knife!

It is fake news. There is no child pornography embedded in Bitcoin blockchain. That's not how Bitcoin works. You can't store images on Bitcoin blockchain, however, you can store almost as much data as single SMS can transport in one transaction. So you can store links to the websites, but you won't see them by normal. Not only person that inserted these dirty files would have serious legal problems, but it harms Bitcoin giving it bad reputation and it will scare away people from it. There is enough CP hidden deeply under the ground. And I don't condone and I'm against CP.

Well this is a false logic. Child pornography is being done even with the use of credit cards, debit cards or real time money transactions. Thus to say that banning bitcoin because it was used in child pornography is just like saying they will ban their own fiat currency because it was used in child pornography. So instead of finding fault in the currency they must strengthen the task force against this kind of illicit activity.

It turns out a lot of effort to drop bitcoin, even such news is used to defame bitcoin.
hopefully spreading the false news got a proper reply and soon realized his mistake

Then Bitcoin has to be illegal from the start since it has been used to buy some illegal stuffs in the silk road,
They also used Bitcoin as a payment method for everything that they could down in the dark net from hacking ,paying for assassin, and all sorts of stuffs .

you fool always making alarming post here without even thinking if this is justifiable or not?all currencies are being used by this f*cking maniac purchasing this kind of stuff,so if bitcoin must be banned because of this ,then what about all paper money in which has been used before they learn using bitcoin?

I think were not in position to control it but were hoping that our leaders of this forum could find solutions to control the pornograhy scattred in blockchain, with this we avoid doing nonsense to earn money that came from bad thoughts and creation of demonic mind.

i don't think it's true. if i understand correctly the way it all works, you cannot put in a block any data, but the transactions information (private key, the amount of tokens and wallet address). so it's impossible. it's just another try to make people give up on crypto. so i would recommend you to read about the way blockchain works before making any conclusions.

Wrong.

Here are the facts :

https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf

Doesn't anyone READ the actual post,
or READ the actual paper ?


Kapyong

This is NOT about BTC being used for child porn.

It's about child porn data being stored ON THE BLOCKCHAIN.

Amazing how few posters have realised what this is about.


Kapyong

Child pornography already happened even before bitcoin exist,  and Yeah it is possible to use bitcoin for child pornography, and i hope it will not happen.

I`d like to stress that there`s a whole hidden world called Darknet where one can buy everything illegal for bitcoins, etherium, litecoins etc. There`s a lot of videos on Youtube where people show screenshots where one can see that the only payments that are accepted there are crypto-payments. It`s done for security but still people get caught visiting this site. Criminals are very active trying to deliver their illegal goods and services to customers but if one is sane there`s no need in it. Perverts and law breakers have always present in our society but Internet and new technologies gave them a new opportunities.

Child pornography is already prevalent even before Bitcoin came into existence. Such crime is not in any way a result of Bitcoin and its development. The cause of child pornography is a rotten mind, drugs, alcohol, and other forms of vices that drag a person into a certain kind of animal. You need to realize that a lot of porn sites offering child porn does not accept Bitcoin but fiat.

In deep web, as i know, theres a lot of illegal activities more than child pornography. And the use of bitcoin for this illegal activity was not new. In fact, deep web was operated by someone or something with the use of bitcoin many years ago. This activities changed the concept of bitcoin as illegal.

this is something that can be bad for bitcoin, they do stupid things with bitcoin, so bitcoin will become banned for all countries, even can be abolished .....

I think that is possible however it is just a normal problem encountered by the crypto-world. I think it is not too alarming and we all knew that even without this thiing, it will continue as f*ck after. It will always depend on the user and the true usage/intention of it will be the clear as crystal.

is it a real news about that? if its not real i think its okay that the fake news is making a bullshit news about bitciin to makes bitcoin price is going down, but if it is a real news i think it will be worst for bitcoin and dor us because it will makes the bitcoin users is decreasing

Such kin of acts and news coming like that are not new for the fiat world also. The bitcoin can be worst and thats completely understandable. First there was money laundering and things like that now we have this kind of acts. This is really getting worst day by day in the world of blockchain actually. Just because of that very nature of the bitcoin its being used as open to do anything attitude! We cant do anything about it, its both anonymous and traceable but with no conclusive proofs.

It certainly is a concerning issue, but CP existed even before bitcoin so you can't really say that bitcoin is to blame. It does give it a bad rep, but like all things in the world, it can be used for good as well as evil.

I think bitcoin is not the only reason why Child Pornography until now is still exist. It's depend upon the user of this creation if he use this in bad intention or in good ways. Because even from the fast decade that since bitcoin was not created the child pornography still exist at that time. So we ca not say that bitcoin is the main hindrances of this problem.

why is it always associated with bitcoin? negative things about drugs, pronography and others are not a bit of bitcoin or bitcoin technology, but the user's fault

It is not bitcoin that will going to blame. It is the people who is using it. If bitcoin will be banned because it is used as payment in child pornography then they used another currency to use as payments just to continue the bad transactions. If they ban bitcoin then they should ban too the other currencies that is used in child pornography.

We cannot blame the bitcoin on that. If that is true, that underage children can access pornography, regardless of facilities and media, then what needs to be blamed is the lack of parental supervision of their children. If the parent performs its function as a parent, educates and directs the child according to his needs, then this will not happen.

Bitcoin and blockchain system is just like a tools, which is can be used for a goodness or a bad ness.
Just like you using knife, you can use it for cut the vegetables and serve a healthy food, or you can stab someone from behind.

You know what if that's really true...  We cant change...  There are a lots of people who has a negative mind-set like that....  We cant do anything about...  We cant stop it even if government banned BiTcoin in their country surely it will just lessen little on the population of a person who has a negative motives...  It not new anymore why...?  Because I think its part of the disadvantage of modern technology... If we are accesing internet we cant control it...  Though it still alarming because the one who is victims about is a child...  For me this is not a real problem here in bitcoin...  The true problem is the person who created it...  They are just planting a seed where in end of it they are one who will harvest...  If they will not get the consequence today maybe tommorow or in the near future...

So according to your logic the problem is the creator. But he who creates can`t control everything that happens after the invention is implemented. For instance let`s talk about the creator of building. It may fall down, burn and so one always should blame the original creator but not other things? No. The inventor of bitcoin whoever he or she is tried to unleash a new innovative technology and this person(s) bear no responsibility for criminals who use it.

Wow,

doesn't anyone bother to READ the story, or read the article ?

Almost no poster here has any idea what this thread is about.

How bizarre.


Kapyong

hallo,

human trafficking, immoral acts, robbery all of it had been there before before Bitcoin was created.

so in the future we should be able to take advantage of Bitcoin for a decent community, we must be the foremost to pioneer that Bitcoin is good and should not be used.

The technology itself is not sinful, and the guilty ones are those who use it.
So I don't think there is a direct link between the bad guys and the bad guys on the blockchain ledger, which doesn't mean that bitcoin is bad.

I hate this kind of situations im so much hurt.By the way people used btc for illegal for their own happiness that was so sad.Bitcoin is online payment easy to used specially bad people can easily do the illegal activities for them thereby damaging the reputation of bitcoin.may think of people who are involved in illegal activities and children who are victims.maybe they do not blame btc for this dirty work

its upto self attitude The technology itself is not sinful, and the guilty ones are those who use it.
So I don't think there is a direct link between the bad guys and the bad guys on the blockchain ledger, which doesn't mean that bitcoin is bad.

Why should they ban bitcoins just because a few people are using it for stupid things, meanwhile the majority of people are actually using it for something good and positive.

Hopefully not Bitcoin will blame them, but those who do bad things to get victims and use Bitcoin. Hopefully Bitcoin will not ban about this and arrest the criminal. Because Bitcoin can give us a better life if we used it in illegal way, we need this to earn and help our families. That's why, I am so sad with this kind of news.

I also agree that blockchain is an obstacle to child pornography as all operations remain recorded forever in the infrastructure blocks. Prohibiting the blockchain or cryptocurrencies for this reason is simply idiot.

First it is illegal and not ethical to promote are create content related to child pornography. These are the developments that would endanger the progress of bitcoins,  altcoins and blockchain technology. I think child pornography has no direct connection with  bitcoins. People would do anything to get their illegal stuff launched or get it expanded and that is what's happening here, they are simply using bitcoins as a currency to exchange their illegal content and services. I hope this would stop soon.  

They're really trying their very best to kill one of the best innovations ever created. They are too focused on the negative side of it all when it comes to bitcoin and blockchain. Haters of this technology are those people who doesn't understand what bitcoin and blockchain technology is. So tiring to hear such ridiculous news just to bring down the value of bitcoin. Those people really have hidden agenda why they are destroying this very awesome technology that changed a lot of lives to those who truly embraced the benefits and advantages of this technology.

 :o it never occurred to me before if this article is true, but it's all out of control surely there will be people who abuse Bitcoin for their personal gain and satisfaction...this is the reality we have to accept, I just hope, all crime can be minimized with the help of technology.  

Just cut the crap out of it why don't you guys just use the system as it is designed to. Why even bothering inserting images or any virus or anything in it why not just play with it enjoy all the benefits of it during time don't act like a kid who is trying to destroy them after you got them. I do not think anyone has to worry about Bitcoins as it is not going to be a link sharing stuff on the internet it is meant to be a money processing system and it is best in the network let it stay as it is do not interfere with it.

Child pornography existed already before Bitcoin invention and it's not new that some of them accept Bitcoin as payment (i already saw this in the dark web back in 2012).
Why this should be a problem now?

Child pornography existed long before Bitcoin came around and will exist long after it. People will always find a means to an end. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bitcoin.

Actually -
the issue is that child porn data has been permanently stored ON the BTC blockchain itself.

But no-one here seems to realise that :(

Kapyong

if the goverment ban bitcoin because of only someone using it for illegal thing (in this case is child pornography) so goverment should be also ban any other kind of real money, digital money etc. the fact is when theres a demand to child pornography so everybody will be doing anything to gain a profit on it, not only using bitcoin. so the goverment must find a solution to decrease that demand, not blaming the way to get into it

Child pornography in any form should be banned, including to those individuals that use bitcoin as a tool to promote this. This is totally unacceptable and should be stopped.

I have already made a comment of this topic but I made some research about the relationship of bitcoin and child pornography. There were actually cases wherein people use bitcoin to pay somebody to have access to child pornographic materials but there is much bigger problem here. It is not with bitcoin as a currency but with the technology which is blockchain itself. I have read that last 2015 the Interpol have warned that blockchain could be used to storing virtually un-deletable malware or child abuse images. This is the one of the biggest concern of Interpol with regards to blockchain and child pornography.

That's not good many teenagers and even school goers are on btcs what would be the impact ob them after seeing this? Developer should have noticed

Well thats really the sad truth bitcoin. Bitcoins anonymity was supposed to be use as an escape to taxes given by the goverment when they find our transactions but still there are some people who uses it in bad ways instead. One way is what you have mentioned but there are more when you try to access deepweb. But I have also read of some article which the blockchain now records your transaction if you use their wallet so the probability of your identity to be exposed is high. But still the bad ones are still finding a way just to spend their bitcoin in illegal ways.

Is horrible to think that is possible to happen about child pornography in bitcoin because we can’t handle when and where the investors spend their income or profit that they gain or earn  from the company of bitcoin and is sad to think of it that sometimes is usually happen because of the some people bad habit.

A very alarming post which I consider to be the reason why the price of bitcoin is still down today. It will take time for me to research all of this so that I will be able to believe this or not. Nonetheless, I am in great trouble because all of my money are in bitcoin and I need to convert it to prevent these type of viruses or links that you said.

Bitcoin should be used in a modest way without compromising the legal rights of the minors such acts should be given full attention and comprehensive legal approach.

This is bad news especially to those advocating against sex offenders. Bitcoin nowadays is renowned worldwide and we should not let child pornography take part in this one. We would like our children to have safe internet browsing, that even if they grow up and cryptocurrencies made it in the future, we should still be creating a pornography environment for them. This should never be tolerated and I think developers should take actions to prevent or stop this from happening

A bad news either. Hoping that it is not true because surely it will affect the reputation of bitcoin. And there is the possibility that bitcoin will be banned because of pornography.

All that "Bitcoin is guilty in pornography/murders/drugs/etc." is ridiculous. A cryptocurrency is a tool and nothing more, same way we can say fiats is guilty in all same things

The post is ridiculously biased. What they are saying is that I can not spend a dollar note that someone else i don't know, has used to pay for watching child pornography. This is a very weak article and should be disregarded. Empty FUD

Bitcoin found porn. Scientists analyzed 1600 files contained in the code of the crypto currency. Most of them turned out to be links, while eight files contained images of a sexual nature. At least one of them shows a minor, scientists believe. Child pornography is banned in 112 countries, which may make Bitcoin's possession illegal. The files enclosed in the code can not be changed or deleted - this is one of the special features of distributed registry technology.

actually why should bitcoin  join in this hoax posted news,that bitcoin become illegal in ban all over the world because of child pornography,because the real truth about bitcoin is only for promoting  economic growth and social responsibility and not for destroying the human kind  just like what stated in this statement.definetly bitcoin is not for child pornography or other illegal activities,but for the purpose of capitalize country.

This is not bitcoin's fault. If someone murders for usd or others currency then that is not USD fault right? It's all about bad people. You can't blame bitcoin for this because of bitcoin is using in child pornography. Though many upstart reporters written many articles about it, but I will always say it is not bitcoin's fault.

Actually Sometimes child pornography is happen in the company of the bitcoin in different way like  in a way that some of their buyers of coin or investors use their income for their own good and want too.

That. Never blame the tool for that what people do with it. In this case it doesn't even concern actual links and images. The 'content' in the blockchain they are talking about are hashes.

Only wrong intended people know how to gain access to these files. 99.9% of the people don't even know what a hash is, let alone how to locate the block containing it and the exact hashes. It's trash talk meant to tarnish Bitcoin.

What if these hashes get emailed to government employees in a text file and they download it? Does that mean we should banish the government? It's all just nonsense. 

The mainstream media always needs a boogeyman, and in this case they've found one in bitcoin, or it's a very slow news cycle.  What you said is absolutely true, that the medium of exchange is not the evil here, it's the actual evil deed.

That monster Peter Scully who recently got nabbed in the phillipines in one of the worst cases of online child abuse was supposedly linked to bitcoin, though the articles I read about his case did not seem to play that aspect up.  Take a look into that if you're in the mood for a horror story, but it's disgusting.  Anyway, bitcoin was very early on smeared with the stain of drugs and illegal porn, and that's not likely to wash away any time soon.  It's unfortunate but hopefully the average person can use a little bit of critical thinking and realize that crypto isn't a bad thing.  It's all the other stuff that is, and the people who partake in it.

That is the misconception about Bitcoin they look at it as a threat to financial ecosystem considering that at first hand the transactions are anonymous, they don't look at the advantages of this technology can offer, but it's unfair to say 'child pornography in Bitcoin' because it existed before. Maybe they wanted to drag Bitcoin in a position that will give the society to react negatively about Bitcoin

That not only Silk Road there are many place people can go to do in dark side.
And yes, with an anonymous feature of cryptocurrency crimes very interested to use it.
that's why Gov don't wanna to use it

I think pornography is a bad move from one of the world's developers by integrating bitcoin with the platform they create that can make the name of bitcoin ugly.

- others will say that pornography is an art, government is not even after with pornography even in US it has license to operate. Other countries prohibited it. The creator may integrate blockchain with it but should also be responsible enough by not encouraging others to operate illegally using minors as it is worldwide considered as unacceptable.

totally agree, in fact it's just a weak try to make some people be against bitcoin and blockchain technology. people who know how blockchain works will never buy this crap. Cause it's impossible to put stuff like that in a system like this. so before taking every piece of unreliable information at face value, try to make a research on your own.

PORNOGRAPHY CHILDREN IN BITCOIN never existed, because the bithoin forums for work materials and bitcoin forums are not appropriate for child pornography, the bitcoin forum is a good job for the nation and the country.

Child pornography is a serious crime. The person behind this should put into prison for a life time sentence. It is worthy for them and bitcoin should remain because it wasn't the original purpose of bitcoin creation. Alarming article that can miss lead other that can possibly leads to panic.

This is really bad news hence using child on pornography really a heinous crime and punishable to the extent of the law. Using bitcoin will give good or bad reputations, it may have good effect to those you using it in a good way and bad to those using it in illegal acts such mentioned on the article.

We have the same logic. Bitcoin will not be bad in the blockchain, those people are. Yes, they want income and they use an illegal way for it and they use bitcoin as a payment. So whatever happens, bitcoin is not the one who did it, it is always the person.

If some country have to ban bitcoin because some pornography site are using bitcoin then dollar, pounds and all other fiat should also be ban because before the inception of bitcoin so many pornography were in existence using fiat.

there are pros and cons of the technology based on how it is being used. But as law abiding citizen we must regret this kind of marketing, we should not advocate acts which is illegal in the first place.

Huh? What have developers to do with this? This is about how a sick fuck miner used the blockchain for disgusting purposes, very likely to damage Bitcoin's reputation, but it's not working. Miners have the ability to include data in blocks, not developers or users. Bitcoin's network at that point by far wasn't as large as it is right now, so it required relatively low effort to get it done. I wouldn't even be surprised if it was a government or bank having done so.

All these actions against Bitcoin just show how much of a powerful tool it is. The elite doesn't want people to obtain any freedom. They want to control your wealth, they want to control what you can spend your money on, what you read and what you see. Without Bitcoin we would probably remain stuck in this shitty system for many more decades.

Yes bitcoin and blockchain technology are not malicious and wrong as long as nobody abuses it, which makes bitcoin negative by laypeople like that, they run illegal activities using bitcoin as a means of payment or transact. So if they (the laymen) are tracking blockchain and crypto technology, I'm sure they'll aware and not always see the bitcoin from the downside.

yes, it is not the blockchain technology that is guilty, it's all on us who use this bitcoin, if we use it well then the name of bitcoin will still be good in other people's thinking, try us all the same to use this bitcoin well

This is one of the reason while different countries ban the usage of bitcoin, it is because it is used for illegal things and also promotes it to other buy just buying something illegal or trading it. It is a very bad news because the name of bitcoin is being dragged by those kind of events, the risk of bitcoin being banned to other countries are getting high because of these issues.

PORNOGRAPHY CHILDREN IN BITCOIN
What can you say about it?


I think kalao is true then the reputation of bitcoin will disappear long after this incident. Currently I can not trust this information because the article writer is not too prestigious. I just believe the information from big and prestigious newspapers. I am waiting for people to talk about this and make my conclusions. And I hope this is not true.

Now this is just sad. It is almost inevitable that some people will use Bitcoin in their dirty work. A medium for a great opportunity for a better living being tainted by these bad elements. I think that the governments should carefully study these cases which involves the use of Bitcoin and be more considerable by looking at the greater benefits Bitcoin has to offer rather than shutting it down.

Yes, crimes doesn't care what kind or form of currency as long as it's paid. Be it in credit card, money transfer and cash. Cash is the most untraceable because there are no digital record whatsoever. It's not the technology or way of payment crimes exist. It's because there are demand and supply on this kind of crimes.

Well since the bitcoin was not born... The Child Pornography is already there it exist..  and they use fiat money for payments.  So we can not say that bitcoin is the reason of this case child pornography because of easy payment to use. Bitcoin is not design for the use of crime.. It depend the personality of the user's, how they intend to use bitcoin in good ways or in bad ways.

Many people who use bitcoin can make even a small profit so they can have extra income. It should not be used for illegal activities such as pornography. Illegal activity because it is bound to rules that definitely do not exist without restrictions. 8)

Another negative views in bitcoin this not believeable a child used pornography using bitcoin?  I don't think so this news is just blocking the becoming price increases.

Every few months this stuff returns, always the same thing, just fud.
And you don't need btc to access that kind of stuff..,the internet is full of it, saying countries would ban btc is ludicrous.

As a mature person we must not teach our children in pornography using bitcoin but rather we teach them that bitcoin is a good business to invest with and we can rely our future  with the success of this technology.

Bitcoin as exchange for a child's pornography?maybe in some but i am quite sure that every country nor every government strictly prohibited these acts.The government should stop these illegal acts and do some investigations.These must be stop immediately and it was the local government's task to protect its citizen especially the young ones.

All this dirt was before bitkoin. Perhaps for criminals, this facilitated their activities. I believe that if this method of financing is covered, this does not mean that they have won. It is necessary to fight specifically with these criminals.

The wrong thing is not bitcoin but who do Pornography to children, what if there are people doing charity by donating bitcoin 10 BTC whether bitcoin will be praised and not insulted and considered legal, bitcoin is good future money.

The situations is always worst if most of the victims was the youth, and we couldn't stop them to access it. If this will continue to become a disease on everyone each country leaders have an impulsive power to prevent this matter. Because off that unrighteous behaviour btc's reputation might be in danger, and those btc haters will just use this as reasons in order to take down btc through controversy like this.

If this is true child pornography in bitcoin should not be supported. We should be responsible as to what kind of campaign we should be joining. All illegal transaction in bitcoin should not be tolerated regardless of amount of token allocated.

I agree, any criminal offender can use any currency, not just bitcoin and crypto. Most of them often even use usd and fiat money because it may seem easy for them to handle and start faster transactions for their clients. However, bitcoin has recently been accepted on most porn sites and apart from credit cards and I think it's much easier for them to use than to give cards that expose their true identity.
  And it depends on the person's person and how they will use the money / currency. So it's not a full btc or cyrptos error. Even cyrptos exists or not, such crimes will still exist.

Is there anything hardship left to the path of btc that even this got struck behind us?

I would say, that if government will ban bitcoin and cryptos then bad guys will find some new way to continue their bad works...

It's realy sad to hear about the children pyrography in exchange of bitcoin. I don't know were they got their guts to do such dirty acts. Children are too innocent to be involve in phonography. If only their are institutions that can stopped this crime. But I also know the fact that child phonography is long issues that never been resolved. I think the best thing we can do is, if we observe or notice this sinful acts lets don't support those who are doing this or else we can call the attentions of rightful person to attend this issues.

I don't think this kind of thing should be said that Bitcoin needs to be banned anywhere on the Internet. Something that violates people's moral issues should not be allowed. This can maintain the normal operation of the Bitcoin market, but also allow more people to change the impression of Bitcoin.

Child porno is not the creation of Bitcoin or any other Crypto. It is unexpected, but it has been there from long before the Crypto idea.

Bitcoin isn’t responsible for any crimes or immoral behavior associated with the coin itself. It’s the people themselves, they’re the ones who shall be punished by the law and to face legal actions againsts them. They’re responsible for their behavior, after all, sextortionist and human traffickers doesn’t just use cryptocurrencies but also central/ representative money.

Because Bitcoin is used in darkweb for trasanction illegal deals like child pornography, fraud and sale of arms doesn't mean they existed because of bitcoins. Without bitcoins, these social vices were already in use and it got nothing to do with bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency.

It shows that bitcoin is open to everyone. The children are entitled to participate in bitcoin. They can write articles on the signature campaigns of bitcointalk. This is a good sign for everyone. Bitcoin will last long.

I beg to disagree! Bitcoin open the doors to everyone but Child pornography? we should adhere to the legal approach on this matter, it is not acceptable to use this young minds just to justify the needs of pedophiles and maniacs out there. For whatever reason we should not tolerate such acts and should not participate and support any initiative regarding on this matter. Its shameful!

I am disagree to this. Child pornography in Bitcoin affects bitcoin. And also its not good for the childrens. Do not let this pornography ruins bitcoin and the minds of children. Say no to this.

Most people use  bitcoin to make even a small profit so they can have extra income. It should not be used for illegal activities such as pornography. Because of thede illegal acivities, we are bound to regulations that must've not been without these.

The use of bitcoin is not always used for the illegal thing, out there are many people who expect their life from the results of trading or investment of bitcoin or cryptocurrency as a whole. Bitcoin and blockchain can be used freely by everyone because of the decentralized system, so everyone has the same rights to use bitcoin and blockchain.

Unfortunately, if we always see the negative side of everything instead of cryptocurrency alone we will be reluctant to use it. For example with the use of money fiat, not a few people who use money fiat for a negative or use for something illegal.

The question is, should this be stopped? I guess it does not have to be! because out there are many people who use money fiat for positive things. Cryptocurrency is not everyone's use for negative things, so the development of cryptocurrency should not be stopped but every negative thing can be reduced with special supervision from those who have authority in our life.

Well there are others also like having a block chain of dating applications but this one is definitely not acceptable to most or all of the countries. This one is really an immoral doings and that is why governments or every country has watching over bitcoins and cryptocurrency because the government are fully aware on this. Anyway some countries had already made some regulations and rulings over crypto after being accepted.

It's just as they should ban physical money from which 90% of the crime world is financed. There will always be a reason to attack the cryptocurrency market.

Child pornography will finally turn bitcoin to illegal

One has to realize that there may be some sponsored negative news aimed at tarnishing the image of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Pornography, financial crime, and terrorism financing are, in fact, far common  with fiat currencies. Crime will always be associated with money in whatever form it is, either digital or paper.

if I'm not mistaken, it's just a lie. Is it possible to store the same in the locker of bitcoin? I for some reason doubt that

This is bad news it gives a negative feed back again to bitcoin because bitcoin will be the one to blame again but I hope every single person would understand that bitcoin is not the reason for this kind of criminal things because those people used bitcoin for they evil things.

well i think This is just another attack on bitcoin. Although this might be true, that there are links enclosed in the blockchain, that is no reason to ban bitcoin. It's almost impossible to find these links, even if you wanted to. Authorities are aware of that and it's likely they will not use this as an excuse to ban bitcoin and They're really trying their very best to kill one of the best innovations ever created. They are too focused on the negative side of it all when it comes to bitcoin and blockchain. Haters of this technology are those people who doesn't understand what bitcoin and blockchain technology is

This is some disturbing article if this news is extremely valid. I'm not that stressed over some obscenity and different photographs embedded into the blockchain yet what about ruinous malwares and infections furtively put away into your most important vault debacle pausing. In the event that everybody has bitcoin around the world (accepting it will end up being the following cash), who realizes what happens is some dreadful malware is embedded in all PCs without the proprietor knowing. Ideally they'll discover some arrangement in sifting maybe the blockchain.

So this is the cons brought by technological advancement, let us set aside Bitcoin for the meantime if child pornography is acceptable, these are young minds we also have children in our home. Its different thins with dating site, pornography because they are in there legal age although it is illegal in some countries, but as to child pornography there's no legal thing about it in any countries.

This type of news, even if they are real, really discredits an economic benefit that they have given us socially. How unfortunate that they use this for something as dirty as harming children.

Well, i think that will depend in each person that used bitcoin. We can't say anymore when it comes to what kind of payment that bitcoin used for. it is just like any currencies in this world that being used by each people in many different ways to buy anything.

This child pornography already happen before crypto, this is not to blame crypto on this it is the people behind child pornography they are responsible for this and they just using bitcoin as their new tools for payment for their illegal transactions.

I think this is one of the many reasons why Bitcoin has a reputation, some people, use Bitcoin or the blockchain in illegal activities. This could cause a big trouble to cryptocurrencies in general, it could also result to banning of BTC in some countries.

Many ways to access porn sites. And I think a wise way to keep kids away from negative things is, do not give kids gadgets under the age of 17.
If you give him a gadget at a young age, provide strict supervision. Monitor what he or she has visited through google history and do not teach them how to visit darkweb.

Well I have read some articles that Bitcoin use for illegal things like buying drugs online, child pornography, etc. And this is happens on darkweb maybe this is one of the reason why some countries banned bitcoin.

talking about child pornography or similar content is a "common story" in cyberspace, all handled with parental attention and supervision if the child wants to be protected from a website or pornographic content.
access issues that use virtual currency (bitcoin) or FIAT I feel the same way, as long as access can be with certain payment all people and all ages can do it.
Do not close your eyes and ears, these are just a few groups that want to destroy the reputation of blockchain and bitcoin for unreasonable reasons and want to make bitcoin a scapegoat for their incompetence.

The news is completely fabricated and another FUD to defame crypto. In reality such things occurred even when there were no bitcoins.

It certainly is a concerning issue, but CP existed even before bitcoin so you can't really say that bitcoin is to blame. It does give it a bad rep, but like all things in the world, it can be used for good as well as evil.

I could understand why Bitcoin could be banned if it was the main cause for these malpractices flourishing. The thing is these nasty habits and crimes existed for millennia in sick people's minds and actions long before Bitcoin was invented. People pay hard cold cash to do all these bad things and they do not need Bitcoin to make them easier to get

It is not bitcoin that will going to blame. It is the people who is using it.If the parent performs its function as a parent, educates and directs the child according to his needs, then this will not happen.

just bullshit! are you saying that Child pornography is supported by Bitcoin? or there was no child pornography before bitcoin? do you have any idea how the Blockchain and AI fight sex offenders and traffickers?

Actually i'm not sure whether it a real article or fake. But if is it true, child pornography in bitcoin is disgusting!.
This is very alarming news. However,for me to those people who's having an illegal business like this can use any currency just to get what they want which is money. It depends to the person on how will they use the money/currency. So its not btc's fault or any cyrptos. Even cyrptos exist or not,crime like this is still there.

Here’s another exploit of Bitcoins, I strongly agree with the said thought of the number of
replies here, all other illegal activities and crimes have already existed prior to the
release and rise of Bitcoins and altcoins. It doesn’t justify any reasonable or legal means
to widely ban Bitcoins on the account of such a payment option to illegal online services.

Before sharing a news, it's a good idea to check first whether it's legitimate or from a reliable source or just a hoax. Moreover news about crypto, this is to ensure that it is not a FUD to drop other coins and market certain coins.

I also think bitcoin is not evil. Depending on the purpose of using bitcoin for each person. If as many people use bitcoin to post on porn sites, then the bitcoin will become bad

For me child pornography is not the result of the creation of bitcoin or other crypto. Perhaps this is unexpected by all of us but it has existed long before the crypto idea and not the one doing such brusque work will not do it, if only crypto can stop forever. You also use the problem instead of what you use for crime in any way. 8)

So they should ban fiat currency than they should ban internet also. I never get it why people dont understand technology is not  bad people who use it are bad.instead of banning bitcoin they should catch people who are doing these terrible thing

So we might as well ban all fiat money around the world or all countries? Because this is also the reason why they kidnap kids or even adults and sell them on the black market which all this links to money. Bitcoin is just the same as any other currency where you can buy, sell, invest, and earn from it. It just depends on the person on how he/she uses it for. It can be legal or illegal who knows.

Bitcoin is a digital currency that can be use for what ever thing the user choose to use it for, and porn is one of the entertainment that bitcoin is use to access even the child pornography that you mentioned is being carried out by users and not bitcoin in it self, bitcoin like every other currency can be use for either negative or positive thing.

the lack of understanding in this thread is really dis-heartening

the article is only reporting on a widely known fact in the crypto community. You CAN enter small amounts of data onto the blockchain, some of this has included links etc to child abuse and other shocking things...

the take-away point is that bitcoin and open/trustless networks are censorship resistant, decentralized to make it near impossible to shut down... immutable so that once a transaction (which could include links to material or images) is confirmed in the blockchain it becomes permanent due to consensus of the transaction being valid.

if you want truly free networks that have freedom of speech/economic activity... fungibility and privacy are key (and improving on bitcoin because it is neither)... but so is this aspect; anyone must be able to use the network without asking for permission... to be immune to censorship / centralized control, all speech/data broadcast validly, is treated neutrally/equally by the network.

Well, I have a very simple answer to your question.  Crypto just like Fiat currencies are created for good purposes.  Let us accept the fact that people can also use them for illegal activities just like child pornography.  If crptos are to be banned because of this, then fiat money must also be banned. But I think, banning a currency does not stop an illegal activity like child pornography.  It could be prevented or at least minmize if governments will just focus on hunting people involved in these illegal activities.

The president of the bitcoin foundation is a pedophile.  I think he has been ptting these images in the blockchain. 

Its no question that bitcoin is rumored or is allegedly used for this kinds of transactions that go about in the dark web. I myself have some sites where I read that this is the anonymous advantage that it have that concerns the authorities and the parties in regards to them fully integrating bitcoin into the fold. But, I still believe that we can harness safeguards or even regulations to stop or even track this kinds of illegal activities to make the bitcoin market much more safer

I agree, so that we can work it out for good, by following legal standards as prescribed by any states and countries. The fact that there are disadvantages it is an opportunity for us to do more innovation and research to strengthen its use and security

Creation is bitcoin is not the cause of this unclean doings by other people, but in effect, the outstanding image of bitcoin will surely be shuttered by this unholy events. It makes people think that bitcoin is illegal and is not a safe asset to hold on, it makes people be afraid in all cryptocurrency, the number of people who are closeminded will also increase which is bad for bitcoins growth and adaptability.

Just like what I expected there are so many advantage of bitcoin just like what you said. Bitcoin is no evil but other treat it evil because they think that bitcoin is illegal, gambling or scam site. There's so many people that their first impression in bitcoin is really bad but when they know all the information that they need to believe they encourage to work here.

Many people are taking advantage of being dcentralizationof bitcoin economics this actually destroy the reputation of crypto currency many good organization,investors are affected of this kind of illegal action if this will continue maybe crypto currency are banned in every country.

Child porno is not the creation of Bitcoin or any other Crypto. It is unexpected, but it has been there from long before the Crypto idea.Even cyrptos exist or not,crime like this is still there.

Surely it's a tragedy to have child porn exist at all, and it's a shame to the crypto community to know that it’s allowing them to purchase and therefore drive the market and create further darkness. but we have to keep in mind that all users had previously used other forms of currency before the onset of the extreme ease of accessibility of internet porn in the comfort of your own home. The article goes on to fear monger a bit and throws around the suggestion of banning BTC altogether to solve their country’s pedophilia problem. When criminals trade in  dollars do we consider banning the dollar?

Yes, most crimes are paid using US dollars. Should people ban money. Bitcoin is only a tool, can not be traced and can be confiscated. How US marshall sells about 9k Bitcoin. They take it from the criminals. The technology itself is innocent, and the guilty are those who use it. So I do not think there is a direct connection between the bad guys and the bad guys in the Blockchain ledger, which does not mean that Bitcoin is bad.

Honestly, I just heard this news. I do not believe it. I think that maybe this is one strategy made by someone to drop the name of bitcoin. I am afraid that this is a destructive strategy. I still do not believe that there is child pornography in bitcoin. This may be the act of people who do not like bitcoin so as to make such a bitcoin to be hated and lose the trust of the community. Maybe that's a bit of my thinking.

well i think There's no difference between bitcoin and other currencies, people use the dollar, yuan, euro also for bad things. I just don't get it why do people still assume that bitcoin is a criminal tool in fact bitcoin is same as another currency. People who used bitcoin is a criminal not the bitcoin itself and if the goverment ban bitcoin because of only someone using it for illegal thing in this case is child pornography so goverment should be also ban any other kind of real money, digital money etc. the fact is when theres a demand to child pornography so everybody will be doing anything to gain a profit on it, not only using bitcoin

This is the disadvantage of bitcoin it is hard to trace or to identify the owner of the bitcoin holder. And now they using it in a fucking porn site. Are they dont have fear of god. Eventhough they always blame there situation they cant say that. Parent should guide there children properly

Ok, is paying with gold or money for illegal things okay? Somehow, none of you can forbid the use of gold or money. There will always be a mustache which will use well for bad purposes ...

Well, verge is being considered as payment in pornhub. So what gives? I believe that it is great for the cryptocurrency. This will help the community grow. Right now, we have ICOS conducting a lot of porns.

  i am disagree to this. Child pornography in Bitcoin affects bitcoin. And also its not good for the childrens. Do not let this pornography ruins bitcoin and the minds of children. Say no to this.

To tell you honestly, we're talking about money. Money online or money on hand has no difference at all. It means all people can pay for porn even using visa's or etc. The real question is, Is it worth it to create websites that uses bitcoin as modification of payment? i guess not, they will not just be banned but also be in jail for such crimes.

Then why government don't ban fiat, since all drugs and child pornography paid by fiat. I think it's just move against Bitcoin. They can ban it, but they can't kill it.

Yes, Bitcoin can be used for illegal activities. The same way as any fiat currency and no one isn't thinking to ban US dollar or Euro. Still that doesn't mean that Bitcoin is criminal currency and that we have to criminalize it. You can't ban everything that could be used for illegal purposes and that will not help to solve the problems so from my point of view this is completely wrong approach.

Exactly :D The title would sound ridiculous if in New York Times title would appear:
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN USD AND EUR.

Anyway, most of politicians are perverts, so what they pissing about (sorry, couldn't resist).

There is no child pornography in Bitcoin, Bitcoin is the result of the continued aspiration of human towards innovation and research. But as to how others will take advantage of it is a different tune in which it can't be stop.

Where did you read this article from anyways? i have kept on reading different articles about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies but I have not come across anything about child pornography related to digital currencies. The title of this thread is actually creating a fud about bitcoin, its so negative to be honest with you.

 Me too I don't find this interesting because this is already out of topic. And it's very impossible to use bitcoin as child pornography, it is created unique and protected therefore this doesnt belong in here.

yes you are right dear, so any one who is already bad can bad than someone who is not bad. so in this, it doesn't mean that bitcoin is also bad too.

I dont deny that blockchain can be used in anything, good things and even extremely bad things like the news you give here. Bitcoin is only a currency that use blockchain technology and if people use blockchain as a technology to do bad things, then the bad things and people behind that should be blamed on, not bitcoin.

To remind you OP, your fiat currency also can be used on many illegal and criminal activity (and the criminals already use it for a long times), then why the hell you still use your fiat currency? Then why the hell people not against your fiat currency?

just cut the crap out of it why don't you guys just use the system as it is designed to. People will always find a means to an end. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bitcoin.

I believe that all these are just a means to drag the reputation of bitcoin into the mud,Bitcoin has multiple users and its been used for different activities come to think of it guns are made to protect people citizens of a country but same gun people use them to steal and also kill innocent people likewise drugs now this days the rate of drug abuse is very alarming also people now use bitcoin to promote their own acts .In essence people should stop seeing bitcoin as a source of evil doings.Please it does not help bitcoin is here for good they should accept and enjoy its benefits thanks.

I know that it is an underlying truth that child pornographers have some stake in bitcoin. They are using the platform of digital currency to carry their sick agendas. I hope policies are introduced to eradicate such people from Bitcoin.

It is illegal if you use for illegal but if you do for a good thing is not big ussue for that but this kind of news it affect for bitcoins also but the best part of it is many people use it for a good way like helping thier family and buy a lot of stuff.

It's hard to end. Just as drugs are hard to end. I agree with most of the comments that bitcoin is not just the means. It could be anything from paper money (fiats) to physical assets (gold, real estate). What they need is to enforce the laws hard enough.

Improve and improve the law. Just as how Google kept on hacking their own software securities for vulnerabilities.

I think this is not a big deal, I feel it will not affect anything. Pornography is common, then if it is related to bitcoin, then does bitcoin become bad? It's definitely NO. If anyone thinks yes, it does. It's very sad.

Child pornography in any form should be banned, including to those individuals that use bitcoin as a tool to promote this. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bitcoin.

You can think about this, The problem is that these nasty habits and crimes existed for thousands of years in the minds and actions of the sick people long before Bitcoin was invented.

And fiat currencies aren't used for those purposes? How did those people pay that stuff before Bitcoin? It is hillarious how they try to ban Bitcoin for illegal activities even when fiat is used the same. It is because Bitcoin is new so they think it is linked to the criminals using it, but we all know it isn't true..

Bitcoin is someway involved in these sins and pornography.The company itself is not sinful but others feel guilty of them because their are some contents on blockchain transactions messages that contain bad links that overcome downloading links to child porn unwittingly.

this is very alarming if it is really true. we just can;'t do anything about people like this especially with bitcoin. ugly side of being anonymous

Well this is most reprehensible and totally unfortunate. This is why it is good to have some monitoring system. To however put the blame on bitcoin is entirely unfair and misdirected. You don't say because some shot someone with a gun that we should arrest the manufacturer or the vehicle that transported the arm to the shopkeeper or that the shopkeeper himself should be arrested. The people who did this are to blame and not bitcoin. This will not in anyway diminish the acceptance of the bitcoin

Bitcoin being used in illicit activities is no longer new and i do believe that all countries are already aware about the capabilities of bitcoin in relation to crime. But for the countries that knows the significance of bitcoin in their economic growth is bigger than that of being used in crime will never prohibit bitcoin at all, IMO.

This definitely will bring bitcoin trouble so as much as we can let's prevent it from happening. We should not allow this kind of idea into bitcoin. The system must be kept clean to attract more investors. We don't want this to happen because all of us will surely be affected. Let's fight for the safety and security of bitcoin.

This kind of pornographic arrangement is already involved in the hidden ones currently using bitcoin payments, And I really think that there are ICOs that use pornography as a service source in there cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency is already tainted with things like this, that's why this is not new if this kind of problem is involved in the system.

Illegal things and activities happens almost everywhere and with all the currencies including crypto and fiat. We should curb down those negative elements instead of banning or restricting a system. All the transactions done by these bad actors are stored onto blockchain, and it can be tracked down by their wallet used in those transactions.

This is a ridiculous and stupid statement. Governments don't see it and many country ban it that way because they see banning bitcoin won't stop the illegal activity. I think porngraphy and bitcoin are not regulated to each other. Bitcoin is valuable coin. Man use it there all activities in a day.

Wow,
so many ignorant un-informed posts !

Here are the facts :

"A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of
Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin"

https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf

It's about porn being stored ON THE BLOCKCHAIN.

It's NOT just about people using BTC for porn.

Why doesn't anyone READ the DAMN article ?!


Kapyong

this is bad idea of pornography because bitcoin just a digital currency whatever you do is to pay and we cant do anything else and we can not blame in bitcoin but somehow people will get bored people will do is to watch a ponography we will not blame those people who watch a pornography if you want to watch just watch. people also sell their kid by naked their body this is bad i want to stop that pornography.

I don't think that there is any fault of bitcoin in such situation, because if it will become totally banned then they will change their payment method but are not going to stop the evil activities.I think that government should try to catch the people who are involve in such activities either they are using bitcoin or any other fiat currency.The goverment must find a solution to decrease that demand by not blaming the way to get into it.

Well bitcoin is used in many illegal activities ,but bitcoin is not to blame but the people who keeps doing so.

just bullshit, the blockchain, and AI are acting as predators for such criminals.

we can;t do anything about this though, people can use bitcoin any way they want, it's just the sad reality

As for me, bitcoin is not the one to blame on this. Bitcoin is just the payment and we know that everybody can use it. It depends on how they use it. The blame must be on the developers of this website. They are doing illegal and bitcoin has nothing to do with it.

It's awful that crypto currency is used for such purposes. I hope the state will find another way to solve this problem.

That's awful, but the article the author of this thread posted a link to, is dull. Cause it's impossible to use blockchain in a way it was described. You cannot transmit pictures or videos via blockchain. Blockchain is a data base, but not a server for keeping the information... Although the whole child pornography situation it's terrible.. can't even think about it..

Each government that is affected should conduct a large scale research on the blockchain system to find out who the culprit is, Obviously bitcoin wouldn't do that and bitcoin couldn't do that. Sure it is linked to various cases of untracked criminal transactions but I believe it's the farthest bitcoin couldbe abused for.

I can say on that, that bitcoin is not a problem, problem is always in the people, who have done that and bitcoin would just being a tool, the same we can say about dollars for which they buy drugs.

Unfortunately low lifes of society will do what they can using crypto on the dark web is one of them apparently more common Monero.

I think bitcoin is not the reason why the percentage of child pornography is increasing. Actually bitcoin can help so many teen to avoid pornography because there is a chance that they will focus on working here because they earn money here. We all know that many kids now that is greedy or so agressive to have money.

i think bitcoin was already used in all form of illicit activity. you know, the deep web, it's where the bitcoin was used in th early days right. that the ugly side of its anonimity.

This should never happen. Bitcoin should do everything they can not be part of this type of wrong doings. Bitcoin is so popular and a lot of people preferred payment using bitcoin. That is why there are people who just wants to make easy money by doing something evil. I hate to say this but those pedophiles should go to jail if they participate on such things. A child's life should be meaningful and happy, this things should never happen. I am against this.

When people are against a thing they devise so many ways and means to ensure it happens its just a clear of people trying to bring negativity to the minds of people about bitcoin,but they forget that before the existence of bitcoin crimes have been there.So please i urge people not to give heed to information like this cause it stirs up anger in me,Bitcoin has nothing to do with child pornography

i agree with ur info

Another negative story, a nice story making, there are people try to discourage the others. There are people blaming bitcoin for their mistake they made, some people  convinced negative issue without knowing what really happened.

I think it's terrible. The use of a very good payment instrument for such purposes is very terrible. I hope this will be possible to stop in the future.

I am actually amazed on the application of child pornography and how it is linked with bitcoin to be specific. Well if we are talking about the blockchain technology as a whole, its financial legdger may be written in every block which eliminates the need for an intermediary. To be honest, the downside of having a perfect transaction system wherein we rely on trust is the abuse and anonymity factor. Although it may bring benefits, there are also some negative implication when we adopt a widespread of implementation into countries. That is the main reason on why some countries prohibit the utilization of such.

This kind of pornography is created and it's already included in deepweb that currenly use Bitcoin compensation, and I really think there are ICO that use pornography as a source

It is understood that pornography circulates everywhere, but it is unacceptable for me to involve children or shall we say young minds into this matter.

Only less than one percent that bitcoin envolve in illegal activity this is only an isolated case that is spread by some institution perhaps the government that feels insecure against bitcoin.

And this percentage is also decreasing as per the ground reports. Bitcoin is not 100% anonymous. Therefore the criminals are shifting to other currencies such as Monero and Zcash. But they would be fools if they think that it is 100% safe to use these currencies.

Its everywhere, not just in bitcoin.

One of the reason why some goverment not allowing bitcoin in thier country. It could be a source of income for some poor country. They influence some children instead they go to school, they are in the front of computer making some bad act that can affects child grow. I think allowing bitcoin on a country is hard but possible the only need to know have a regulation that can get out that habits.

I could comprehend why Bitcoin could be prohibited in the event that it was the fundamental driver for these misbehaviors prospering. The thing is these awful propensities and wrongdoings existed for centuries in wiped out individuals' psyches and activities sometime before Bitcoin was concocted. Individuals pay hard chilly money to do all these awful things and they needn't bother with Bitcoin to make them less demanding to get.

There are several cases when researchers analyzed files contained in the code of the crypto currency and found among the set of links files with the image of child pornography, which is banned in 112 countries. this can make bitcoin illegal. the technological feature of the distributed registry is the inability to change or delete files.

Pretty sure bitcoins won't be banned lest the addresses behind the transactions should be sanctioned. One does not simply ban bitcoins but they may ban the exchage of bitcoins preventing circulation and therefore preventing people from having bitcoins.

Wow :)

A poster who actually read the facts !

If they will ban bitcoin just because of child pornography, shouldn't every country just ban their own currency also because of the same reason? Remember before bitcoin was created ang so many years ago pornography was already existing and how would criminals pay those involved? ofcourse through money by different currencies.

Ah,
back to posters who don't actually know the facts :(

Child pornography, as well as selling and buying and other criminal activities were founded before Blockchain technology, I see it in darkweb and they will use another way or their way to make payment.

If this is the recent happening discovered on Blockchain, then it becomes a Taboo, very absurd to humanity and the purpose with which Blockchain is meant to serve and achieve after all. The nature of man comes with different characteristics and behaviors which makes it difficult to separate  and spontaneously discover the irrational being among the good ones that can be slotting the malwares of such into the irrevocable Blockchain functionality. The effect of this could result to ban no doubt, but I believe these bad brains are the ones to be actually traced and sanctioned and not to vested the banning consequence on the Blockchain that contains more 90% of rational blocks{data-hash}.

That is the worst allegation I heard against bitcoin, Can people blame US$ or the Euro or Pound when someone purchase pornography material or use fiat in child pornography? hell no because fact of the matter is using fiat or crypto in bad things in itself not the fault of fiat or crypto, we should condemn the offense not the currency.

In general, blockchain was created in order for the transaction to be difficult to track (after all, there are no banks) ... And in principle it is not surprising that it is used for such purposes (for anonymous payments). Well it's always like this: create for one, use for nonsense (on the forum like you can not swear) ::)

Bitcoin is a medium of exchanging values . Paper currency is also a medium of exchanging values .. So whats the problem here ? Isnt corruption happening now ? It will happen till the last day of the world .. But the way of corruption will change according to the world .
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If you only think that electricity will help you for the betterment of your life than u might not fear about it .. U also know that this can make u dead with in few seconds .. So dnt judge in only one way .. Think about the world think about the future . God Bless .

Due to the fact that all the data from the block are downloaded and permanently stored by users, they are responsible for any data added to the blocking system by others. In this regard, it would be illegal to participate in the blocking system if it contains illegal content.

This is very alarming! This raises ethical questions about immutable ledgers that allow anyone to add unmoderated data to a shared, immutable record. It's part of the tension between this hard to modify data structure, the blockchain, and the requirements in certain pockets of law. In the U.S., it can manifest itself in child pornography. In Europe, it can manifest itself in the right to be forgotten.

I think it's terrible when such a global payment tool is used to buy this type of content, it's very bad, I hope somebody will stop it.

I don't actually know how true this is, but even if it is true everything in this world comes with merits and demerits. The most important thing is  not just to jump to conclusion weigh the merits and demerits and draw lines between them. if the the merit actually outweighs the demerit then we can overlook the demerits

Dollars and Euros and Yen could become illegal in all countries if the same logic gets applied to them.

Wrong.
Read the story - there is porn stored ON THE BLOCKCHAIN.

Do Dollars and Euros and Yen have child porn stored inside them ?

Why don't posters here READ the article before posting ignorant nonsense ?

Kapyong

On the basis of all of these technological advances it is good for us, including Cryptocurrency that can replace the financial future in the future.
But if a technology is made for evil then its results will also be bad.

The only example: Your child has a Smartphone, but your child's Smartphone to see pornographic videos, then Samrtphone also his image becomes bad.

Anything could be done to anything. Fiat can also use for such things as child pornography. It is all over the world but people usually do it for money and no one can stop it.

ever since in the history of bitcoin. we know that there's a site that the bitcoin is used for the illegal activities like transaction of illegal drugs, illegal trafficking , illegal fire arms. but not only that, there's also an child pornography and a people to hire to killed one people. this is called deep web. and this site are mostly used by the bitcoin.

according to my understanding it has nothing to do with the core objectives of bitcoin as a currency but the problem and the issue is made by people who use it. I think it is the human nature some people use the bitcoin blockchain technology to do better and good things while some percentage use it for bad so if a country is going to ban bitcoin for such matters it is because lack of understanding. As a community we can only educate the world regarding the vision and potential of bitcoin for people to understand that this is build to do better and good things 

This is the one of the reasons why bitcoin is banned on different countries. I just hope there is something that can be developed to stop this kind of acts defacing bitcoins main purpose.  :'(

Kids are not supposed to know about Bitcoin, it's too far away for school age, Bitcoin has many users and it is used for various activities. they are to steal and also kill innocent people similar to today's drug abuse rate is very alarming also people now use bitcoin to promote his behavior.

Bitcoin was acutally used for all kinds of illicit activies especailly in the black market in the early years. Unfortunately this is the ugly side of anonimity of bitcoin it is perfect to be used by criminals to not be traced in anyway.

For me pornogarfi child can be prevented to children by limiting its faslitas, for example do not give smartphone etc .

And also in teaching Bitcoin to the child since high school, be informed of its advantages and lack of it and do not let Bitcoin is a taboo for children today.

If bitcoin will be used in this filthy thing, surely it will raise those numbers of hatreds towards bitcoin. So bitcoin should limit and choose what are those needed to be supported only.

lols can't laughs, yes that what is trying to say about it. it's not normal to anyone that will be good will surely becomes good so bitcoin can't corrupt child or anybody it all depends on the mentality of anyone involve in bitcoin and the rest.
the more we grows that is how another means of money is surely coming out it many not become a single way. tomorrow we may have another blockchain every faster than all blockchain for now so that doesn't mean we won't adopt  to it or implement it.

Yeah i think this is true news.In some countries BTC used in a lot of bad ways like as with drugs & porn. International news "The Guardian" published this article https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abuse-imagery-bitcoin-blockchain-illegal-content
Also money laundering happened by Bitcoin.

"BAN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, NOT BITCOIN", Child pornography has been a major crisis in many countries, thus it victimize many individuals. Bitcoin shouldn't be banned for it doesn't do anything wrong, and more importantly it gives many individuals a chance to share their own perspective in a particular topic.

Exactly. BTC is a payment system as well as a dollar. No one will put a dollar in the dovera because they need to hear to buy bad things ...

bitcoin not promoting these activities. the sick people around there, so we have abolish them first not the crypto currency. crypto currency is a payment system not a crime linking thing

I think that because of this, it is unlikely to prohibit the crypto currency, because the ban will not be a solution to the problem. The maximum that can be done is to come up with a way to prevent illegal activities.

OK, my bad that I did not read through the Whole article. However, this still makes no sense. What means "hidden links"? You could hide "links to child pornography" in any publication of any kind - and you could even hide it in the Bible by giving people refernces on which letters on which pages would give you the links to child porn. Would the Bible become illegal then too?

Well ... in general it's pretty bad ... but let's reason objectively. There are a lot of ways to acquire this ... and this was done long before the appearance of bitcoin. And even if we consider the acquisition of this from the side of the crypto currency, that is, garasd more anonymous currencies, hence not in one bitcoin problem. So the claim to bitcoin in my opinion is not justified at all.

Regardless of whatever discovery linking bitcoin to pornography, it should be well understood that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are in the family of money. People want money so badly that they can commit crime. The best thing a reasonable government can do to help a situation like this is to regulate it.

After I read the article, I was a bit worried. pornography should not be circulated in this way. it's really hard for us to understand its purpose. I hope the bitcoin is not affected. for me this is a concern.
 :(

Then all kinds of any payment method should be banned as well. this will not go away even if we ban bitcoin. We can't stop those pedophiles for doing this.

If you are following this trend then you should have ban dollar, euro and rest of currencies as well as most of the pornographic material is done in dollar and euroes

This is a challenge, as adults we should always give a positive education about the influence of pornography to children, we must always emphasize that children are not worthy of pornography.

Bitcoin is use in darkweb as payment method for its anonymity, child pornography is a common thing in darkweb and nothing new about it being bitcoin involved into it

Probably it is the time to realise that Bitcoin has nothing to do with crime and the users who are using it for the illegal activities are responsible for such crimes. Bitcoin is just another form of money and crypto industry is all about self-responsibility so users are responsible for any kind of consequences took place due to their actions.

There is always a way to track the criminals and punish them.

* Woman busted sending thousands in bitcoin to ISIS (https://nypost.com/2017/12/14/woman-busted-sending-thousands-in-bitcoin-to-isis/).

It really saddened everyone as governments are against bitcoin even the logic behind it wasn't the fault of bitcoin but the people who use it in a way that was totally unacceptable. Other truth reflects in everything is that it will never be diminished, its the people we can't deal with.

A lot of dirty businesses will soon find cryptocurrency as a way to solve tracking issue since it will be difficult for any body or agent to trace their transaction activities.

I think this is bad for bitcoin because it can affect it negatively. It can cause the fall of bitcoin because government will think that bitcoin can use in some illegal activities.

Exactly, much ado about nothing, if they want to take down child porn just do that taking down the actual files which are stored on a computer that you can easily trace. Moreover, these links must now be years old, you need just a few days to take down files.

Is there any way to detect if a certain Bitcoin has been used for illegal activities? I mean, if there will be a program that will automatically detect, then the government will somehow be at ease or can trust the technology that it won't be used in any illegal matters.

There is some much worse crypto than bitcoin 100%. The criminal uses other cryptocurrencies with better anonymity. Is anonymity good or bad? Good question.

Bitcoin has nothing to do with with this trash.  Same could be said about cash.  Sick people going to do sick things and use any means of exchange they can find.  Hell people used tally sticks and it worked great for a long time.  Bitcoins not the issue.  May be a good way for .gov to trick you into thinking it does so they can keep printing their fiat.   

The first time I heard about bitcoin was when I was researching about the darkweb. Bitcoin was commonly used there as a means of payment when you buy illegal stuffs. I think that leaves a bad reputation for bitcoin. But if you think well even fiat money is used in illegal stuffs, bitcoin is not to blame for that.

Never happening bs

That is FUD. First off, it would be a painstaking process to even find it in the blockchain, and to the extent that it could be found, I believe it would require specialized software or forensics to reconstruct the original images. This is a very sensational topic with little substance.

I think it will have a negative impact on bitcoin. Of course, children should not watch porn. And with the news it will certainly make the parents worried about his son. But that can be prevented while parents can supervise the child.

Don't get too close, it's all bullshit.  And not bitcoin is bad, but people who use this technology for bad purposes. After all, according to the same logic, you need to ban a lot of money.

Please do not bring children to this market, as they will no longer participate in social activities, and they will forget their adolescence, which is why I do not allow my child to participate in the market. this school while they are not 18 years old.

It's doesn't affected to me pornography using bitcoin that's the attitude of individuals we cannot stop them that thier own expenses and that's thier coins what ever they wanted to must be responsible for it.

It is not that the child watches porn, it is the child that are involved with porn. The children are being manipulated and being mind setted with a false belief and one of the people that are involved with that are the parents of those children and they should be arrested and put in a jail to decrease the victims of child pornography.

please teach children with positive and good, to avoid this kind of incident,
parents should educate children with the best, because we are all human beings who have the brain to think positive and good.

In my opinion, it is so funny when people blame a thing for their fault. How could bitcoin become illegal just because of child pornography? Come on man, even we use dollar for accessing pornography, it doesn't mean that it was a dollar fault then dollar become illegal. The thing that should be an illegal thing is the child pornography.

I really regret if pornography can happen in bitcoin. I think this is the act of bitcoin haters who want to bring people's trust in bitcoin. When in bitcoin there is news and impressions about child pornography then more people will stay away from bitcoin. I only hope that although the bitcoin system is decentralized but the bitcoin development team thinks about the filtering and prevention mechanisms of negative news so that the news about child pornography can not reach bitcoin. Okay, that's a bit of my idea about child pornography in bitcoin.

They always blame bitcoin about the bad use of it, but think of this; why dont they also ban fiat currency when fiat can use more for the illegal transactions, they just want to destroy bitcoin in spreading bad news about it.

It's not bitcoin, its the holders choice how to use their money not only bitcoin!

I think every child has a good education and attitude will not do such a negative thing like that, and it only happens to kidnapped children. So, can we teach the children who were kidnapped and they have been brainwashed? Unfortunately, we can't. We all regret and hate the acts like that when the child is the cast for doing the action of pornography and misused of bitcoin for pornography.

We all know that bitcoin is consider to be the very big boon for the entire humanity and there are millions of people who find bitcoin trust worthy and it has millions of investors but inspite of having numerous of advantages, bitcoin too have some some disadvantages and the most important one is is it’s illegal use world wide allies ke selling drugs, explosives, money laundering and child pornography is one the most usual use of bitcoin and inspite of banning bitcoin we guys need to improve this illegal use.

Ummm... You know that you can use Bitcoins to dig in the Deep Web, right? So, it's only up to the one who has the bitcoins what will the usage of those is going to be. Weapons? Pornography? Body parts? Who knows...

I can say that this is slightly unfair because dollar is also used for many filthy things around the world daily, and so what we need to make it illegal for that? Why don't we thinking about this point of view?

 If this will happen then all kinds of money should be banned, Even before bitcoin the there was already child pornography and paper money is being used, and was it banned?
So i think this will not likely happen.

Bitcoin,s blockchain, including links to child pornography and possibly at least one such image. while the practical and financial viability of the bitcoin blockchain is still an open question, new research shows that the whole thing could already be illegal  in most countries. The ledger system that provides the backbone for bitcoin contains hundred of links to child pornography and at least one image thought to be child pornography. the ones that could be illegal, containing links to child porn could be an outsized problem for the Bitcoin community.

Bitcoin has nothing to do with pron people are just promoting their negative lifestyle  to the public and making bitcoin seems as though its evil.It can not be changed crimes and evil acts has been in existence before bitcoin.People should leave bitcoin out of  this

People should check the facts.

Kapyong

I just don't understand why people still assume that bitcoin is a criminal tool,actually bitcoin is the same as other currencies.I think maybe this is one of the strategies made by someone to drop the name bitcoin.I am afraid this is a destructive strategy.I still don't believe that there is child pornography in bitcoin.This may be the action of people who do not like bitcoin,making bitcoin like that to be hated and losing the trust of the community.

Gday,


Who does that ?
Please quote an example.


No it isn't - there are significant differences.


"BELIEVE" ?

Why didn't you check the facts ?
Why didn't you read the article in the OP ?
Why didn't you read the paper I posted ?

Frankly, discussion here is disappointingly un-informed.

Seems most posters simply glance at the topic then answer off the top of their head with an un-informed opinion that has little to do with the topic.

It's NOT about BTC being used for child porn.

It's NOT about children using porn. Seriously, WTF ?

It IS about child porn data being stored INSIDE the actual BTC blockchain - including links to child porn sites, and at least one image that might be child porn (apparently a topless young girl.)

This probably won't see BTC banned, but it is a tricky issue.


Kapyong

 This should not be discussed  or talked about because it will affect the children or having negative sign about them.  It will not be very nice if porn  will be introduced  to children here.

This is a very good scenario for explaining this. It is heartbreaking to know that even this people are using blockchain to do such intolerable acts. Why cant this thugs just keep it to themselves.

bitcoin is used by the criminals for do bad things, i don't know about it can be to banned bitcoin, if we see the real world, there are many people that scam, Phising , carding. why the platform like the Paypal, credit card, via master card is not banned because there are many people that use it for criminals

"I hope the future we will still be allowed to  breathe"! I really love the way this was explained. Spot on! Using Blockchain for such illegal acts is depressing but still need to be aware of the future to come.

In any country, child pornography forbidden. Not matter its using bitcoin or not. Bitcoin can not blamed because peoples using bitcoin for child pornography because its depend on user.

Child pornography is known before bitcoin is establish for me this crypto can be use because as a payment in transaction why? Because no hassle free just transfer crypto digital by digital. But probably it could be trace by some agent because they want to reduce illegal so this is a negative fact or truth that they can use in  evil habits so for me use it in a good way.

Dont connect this thing, child pornography was where we live whs video players age.
With btc we faced to the not cancelable funds stealing, this what the btc income to our world

We really need to stop bringing out the bad sides of bitcoin all the time. I know it’s so bad and disgusting but they will always find a way to finance crime and illegal things. I think no need to blame bitcoin for that.

Wow.

More ignorant nonsense from posters who have no idea what this story is about :(

Kapyong