How police think about Bitcoin enthusiasts ?

[23dzmaz]

In my town, I don't think the police even know what bitcoin is. Maybe they will just take it as a online token in a few years time... There is no law/regulation on bitcoin here...

Same here. I'm sure Police in my country never know about bitcoin, because bitcoins in my country is not popular. If there any crime about bitcoin in my country, i'm sure it will be a big news.

[NeuroticFish]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

Since most of police don't know what Bitcoin is, they'll focus on the word dealer.
And since in their books dealer = bad, merchant = good, you can do your own math


Also, as somebody stated, if you have 10k$ on you and you are not in a suit, it looks suspicious to them.

[DimensionZ]

I hope you guys are aware that the police force of every country has a Cyber Crime department where they deal with all the crimes done through the Internet or digitally and I am sure they very well know what Bitcoin is. Now I would think they only go after the big scammers and don't bother with the petty Bitcoin thieves that are trying to scam $15 for their next Xbox game over the forums 

[Whosdaddy]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

Yes, because it's well known Bitcoin users are murderers. Where did you hear that stupid shit from?

I've been reading a lot of such posts and blog comments and they are just demeaning bitcoins a lot. It's because there have been so many users who have fallen in trouble due to trading with scammers on LBC and the misuse of bitcoins
being read every time in newspapers.

[bitcoinboy12]

In some countries, most Police force haven't heard of bitcoin yet so they're basically clueless but unknown stuff is always attached to something negative.

[barbara44]

Here the police doesn't consider it a big crime if we trade in bitcoins but if in any case we are associated with stolen debit cards, hacked bank accounts or any other illegal or unauthorized activities, a legal action can be taken against us.

[clickerz]

 I don't  think police should be suspicious or judgmental if your having large amount of bitcoin.As long as you earn your bitcoin honestly like trading,and not from illegal activities I think you don't afraid with police.

[Alvin Fahriza]

police in my country. do not know about bitcoin.  although you steal bitcoin your friend, you would not go to jail

[cluit]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

Yes, because it's well known Bitcoin users are murderers. Where did you hear that stupid shit from?

I've been reading a lot of such posts and blog comments and they are just demeaning bitcoins a lot. It's because there have been so many users who have fallen in trouble due to trading with scammers on LBC and the misuse of bitcoins
being read every time in newspapers.

If we read this articles clearly, it is not bitcoins that are responsible but it is just a medium used by scammers or criminals. We just need to be more careful when dealing with new peoples even through LBC or any other medium.

[romero121]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

Yes, because it's well known Bitcoin users are murderers. Where did you hear that stupid shit from?

I've been reading a lot of such posts and blog comments and they are just demeaning bitcoins a lot. It's because there have been so many users who have fallen in trouble due to trading with scammers on LBC and the misuse of bitcoins
being read every time in newspapers.

If we read this articles clearly, it is not bitcoins that are responsible but it is just a medium used by scammers or criminals. We just need to be more careful when dealing with new peoples even through LBC or any other medium.

Just as you quoted, due to large number of users getting into criminal activities every time we make a deal, make sure you don't end up with some problem with the scammers, mainly people are trying to hack.

[EdenHazard]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

in my country,police have no rules to arrest people who do wrong with bitcoin or crypto currency,so its causing some people do a crime with bitcoin,the only thing can blame people who do crime with bitcoin is internet laws,and that only have minor punishment.

[pooya87]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

in my country,police have no rules to arrest people who do wrong with bitcoin or crypto currency,so its causing some people do a crime with bitcoin,the only thing can blame people who do crime with bitcoin is internet laws,and that only have minor punishment.

it differs from country to country. some countries have more bitcoin users and more detailed rules about using/trading cryptocurrencies. but as far as i know owning bitcoin is not against the law anywhere, some places prohibit the trading or accepting bitcoin as payment because the could not regulate bitcoin and they want taxes to be clear on their merchants.

[dollarneed]

as long as you earned bitcoin from legall activities like trading or other activites, then that's none of their business, but if you earned bitcoin from illegal activity like terror in my area a guy threaten Mall in our location with a bomb and demanded to be paid in 100 bitcoins , then i think you will face the police

[maku]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

This is honestly the most ridiculous statement I read in recently. You know that this is completely based on personal views of the specific policeman.
It is like saying that every pit bull owner trains his dog to be a vicious killer. Which is totally false.

[QuestionAuthority]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

Yes, because it's well known Bitcoin users are murderers. Where did you hear that stupid shit from?

I've been reading a lot of such posts and blog comments and they are just demeaning bitcoins a lot. It's because there have been so many users who have fallen in trouble due to trading with scammers on LBC and the misuse of bitcoins
being read every time in newspapers.

If we read this articles clearly, it is not bitcoins that are responsible but it is just a medium used by scammers or criminals. We just need to be more careful when dealing with new peoples even through LBC or any other medium.

Just as you quoted, due to large number of users getting into criminal activities every time we make a deal, make sure you don't end up with some problem with the scammers, mainly people are trying to hack.

That's the way Bitcoin is being traded. It doesn't mean that police are targeting Bitcoin. Police are simply targeting dumbasses that don't know the law.

If you took 50 btc to a Starbucks to trade for $22,000 in cash from some guy you hooked up with on localbitcoins then you deserve to go to jail. Not just because it's illegal but because I don't want dumbasses to just walk around unsupervised.

Now in the statement above replace (50 btc) with (25 oz of gold). It's still illegal and has nothing to do with bitcoin.

[x|8y8|x]

When it comes to a crime, what would the police think about a guy trading with bitcoins frequently in large volumes ?(hundreds of BTCs)

I've heard they can't stand bitcoin dealers out and they become a suspect immediately with no questions asked in case there's a crime where the bitcoin enthusiast is involved. Is that true ?

tributary police or what ever link to fiscal law is not happy to find such movement-----
how to explain?

[Herbert2020]

as long as you are not doing anything illegal you have nothing to worry about.
using bitcoin whether it is for trading or just selling stuff and getting paid in bitcoin is not against the law in most places.

so just search for your country's laws about bitcoin and paying taxes for your transactions, and never pay any attention what others say with FUD.

[lrdeoliveira]

I thought police hate bitcoin traders.

no, police hate criminals, and their job is to stop them. regardless of who is an enthusiast of the bitcoin or an investment guru, or a teacher.
what you say it's called racism

[beerlover]

Where did you hear that bitcoin users are considered suspects? This is just a rumor which has no truth and mainly people who don't want users to be associated with bitcoins spread this FUD. There is no harm if you are a bitcoin dealer but if the coins you earn are too much to believe you are working honestly in the currency, that's when it can be a trouble.

[gregyoung14]

I think police thinks of BTC guys are mean hackers. Basement still lives with the parents smart.