Bitcoin is virtual currency for criminal

[OROBTC]

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Ah, criminals might use Bitcoin.  And of course, criminal governments would not be above stealing wealth:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-15/wealth-tax-looms-greeks-forced-declare-all-assets-tax-authority

The Greek government will want to know how much cash is held by each citizen, even if below 100 euro.

I believe that we have all learned that many governments have criminal tendencies.

[Mastsetad]

you have to gave great explanations to your friend that not all bitcoin users are the criminals also bitcoin made not for criminal activities because much bitcoin users is good person but as long as it doesn't illegal into your country i think you must ignore your friend opinion

Obviously not all bitcoin users are criminals or most of them are not, but maybe there are a few doing evil things using bitcoin but that does not make the coin a criminals coin, even there are criminals using fiat currencies in the world but we do not call fiat the criminals currency because we know that we cannot do anything about that as long as someone has the money it is upto him if how he is gonna use that money.

[davis196]

Hey guys,

I want discuss about bitcoin.
2 weeks ago my friend asking me,
'What's your job now,i said trading bitcoin bro'

He surprised about my statement.
I ask 'why?why you looks like that'
He said,'it possible?money for criminal like that can be used for trading?'

I answer,'why not?that legal,thats money is depend ur purpose,buy or sell something,or you will donation for terrorist.

Any have same statement like me?

Yeah,i have the same statement like you,but with better english.

There is no such thing as a "currency for criminals".Criminals use mostly USD,is the US  dollar a

"criminal currency"?Off course not.

[1Referee]

Hey guys,

I want discuss about bitcoin.
2 weeks ago my friend asking me,
'What's your job now,i said trading bitcoin bro'

He surprised about my statement.
I ask 'why?why you looks like that'
He said,'it possible?money for criminal like that can be used for trading?'

I answer,'why not?that legal,thats money is depend ur purpose,buy or sell something,or you will donation for terrorist.

Any have same statement like me?

Yeah,i have the same statement like you,but with better english.

There is no such thing as a "currency for criminals".Criminals use mostly USD,is the US  dollar a

"criminal currency"?Off course not.

If you mark everything that criminals use as currency, then fiat is the currency for criminals, Gold is the currency for criminals, Diamonds is the currency for criminals, etc. Everything with value can be used as a currency tool for criminals. But as always, Bitcoin is the one being named in the media....

[Fadri]

Criminals use more dollars than bitcoins. The currency can't help being used by criminals.

How can you know that? if ever there was a survey that happened. Because I do not think anyone knows for sure criminals, more use dollars or bitcoin. But I think because the dollar is better known, the majority of criminal use this currency. IMO

But I agree if the currency can not be considered criminal. Because currency only objects used by criminals and money should not be blamed.

well it's easy to know,from when dollar was created compared to bitcoin,and if you look back,there's so many drugs lord before bitcoin was created,so they'll definitely using dollar to do an international transaction,that's enough to give you reference that dollar is even worse than bitcoin

We can't blame it to some kind of currency, people worldwide using dollar in their life because it so famous just like euro and pounds sterling.
Criminals and police could use dollars or another currency as they want, for something bad or good, same thing as bitcoin. But bitcoin has advantage to used by criminals due to it's anonymous and fast transaction.

[NorrisK]

This topic has been debated a million times already.. Bitcoin is not money for criminals, it empowers everybodies financials.

The thing about bitcoin and criminals though is that it does make it easier for them to transfer large amounts of money overseas. Boats packed with millions of dollars in bills are not needed any more and this can become a problem as law enforcement will stop even less of these transports.

Other than that, most kids are still buying weed with cash on the street corner, not using bitcoin.

[yayayo]

First of all "trading Bitcoin" is not a job. In 90% of all cases, it's simply overestimating one's own abilities with the prospect of a negative return. At least it's not productive in any way. Sadly the number of people that simply see Bitcoin as an illusional get-rich-quick scheme is increasing every day. These people don't understand nor care about Bitcoin as a decentralized currency at all. They are basically fiat heads that are just searching for the most volatile asset. So OP is hardly a respectable representative of the Bitcoin community.

That said it's pretty clear that most things that can be theoretically used for criminal acts are evil by itself. Think of thoroughly baked bread. You could use that as a weapon to kill people. Yet it rarely happens. The same is true for all kinds of money. Most people are just doing legitimate business with it, only few abuse it. Some people are evil, but not things.

ya.ya.yo!

[Superzpay]

Hey guys,

I want discuss about bitcoin.
2 weeks ago my friend asking me,
'What's your job now,i said trading bitcoin bro'

He surprised about my statement.
I ask 'why?why you looks like that'
He said,'it possible?money for criminal like that can be used for trading?'

I answer,'why not?that legal,thats money is depend ur purpose,buy or sell something,or you will donation for terrorist.

Any have same statement like me?

Your friends do not have any knowledge about bitcoin, that is why he said like that, try to teach him all about bitcoin and try to bring him to this forum after seeing this community of bitcoin he will know that bitcoin is not a currency of criminals but is it a normal currency for online users.

[Qeebit]

Bitcoin is not used on a large scale by criminals, only a smaller number of criminals are suing bitcoin for their crimes, I think it is a currency for traders and for those people who do business online.

[senderz]

Bitcoin is virtual currency for everyone, it depends on how people use it.Bitcoin open ledger blockchain technology is unique and safe then other online ecurrencies like paypal and others.

[erikalui]

I was told a similar thing by Citrus cash wherein a user send me fraudulent funds and I complained about them and this fraudster to the police. They then said that bitcoin is a currency that's used for illegal purposes. I just did not waste my time replying to them as they support fraudulent transactions and criminals and then blame bitcoin users. It's not necessary everyone uses this virtual currency for illegal trades. I earn coins by selling my gift cards, recharges and signature campaigns which is legal and hence don't care what others say or feel.

[TastyChillySauce00]

I was told a similar thing by Citrus cash wherein a user send me fraudulent funds and I complained about them and this fraudster to the police. They then said that bitcoin is a currency that's used for illegal purposes. I just did not waste my time replying to them as they support fraudulent transactions and criminals and then blame bitcoin users. It's not necessary everyone uses this virtual currency for illegal trades. I earn coins by selling my gift cards, recharges and signature campaigns which is legal and hence don't care what others say or feel.

sometimes these people just feel like they know about everything and don't want to learn about something furthermore and will result having limited knowledge and limited capacity of brain to think about things deeper,and that's how fool people was made

[Jeremycoin]

Yup, Bitcoin is not all about the bad thing. But if you said so, then fiat (physical money) is also for criminals. Because Bitocin and fiat, they're both money. If you just think about the bad side of a technology, then you would not understand its advantages.

[guoyu78]

It is bad that we call bitcoin as the currency of criminals, bitcoin is a currency of digital world and all of the digital businesses are dependable on bitcoin  and those who are not yet on bitcoin are shifting to bitcoin, there are more legit businesses on bitcoin than criminals, and more people are getting benefit with bitcoin rather than harms.

[QuestionAuthority]

I posted this somewhere else but it seems more fitting here.

Bitcoin seems to be the worst magnetic attractant for criminals since the prohibition era liquor business or the 40s-50s Vegas gambling business. Too bad Bitcoin didn't exist in the mid 20th century. The Chicago, New York and Vegas La Cosa Nostra would have loved it.

Bitcoin doesn't have to be illegal for it to be a vehicle for crime. Gambling isn't illegal but every gambling city like Las Vegas is a haven of other types of crime like illegal prostitution. Yes, that's right, prostitution is ILLEGAL in Las Vegas but it's the second largest industry after gambling.

[studas]

It is only a rumor against bitcoin, no one have proof that bitcoin is used for crimes by criminals, maybe in the past in some places it was used for crimes, but now we do are not seeing any place where we hear about that concept the more we hear is bitcoin is a best currency for those who want to earn online money.

[Hugroll]

first of all, bitcoin is a "Digital" currency not virtual , and secondly its accessible to everyone, whether a criminal decides to use it is upto them. It in no way endorses criminals.

[QuestionAuthority]

It is only a rumor against bitcoin, no one have proof that bitcoin is used for crimes by criminals, maybe in the past in some places it was used for crimes, but now we do are not seeing any place where we hear about that concept the more we hear is bitcoin is a best currency for those who want to earn online money.

Seriously? Have you been living in a cave for the last five years? Dread Pirate Roberts only accepted Bitcoin, got life in prison and made world wide news. Mark Karpeles used Bitcoin to steal a half a billion dollars, also world wide news. I think we've heard a little about crimes revolving around Bitcoin.

[goinmerry]

Well, i'm surprised because that's what normal people know about bitcoin thanks to mainstream media who likes to publicize anything which is bad or controversial.
But, i think we can change people mindset if we try to correct if we happen to talk about bitcoin to normal people.

I hope that can be done in an easy way. Damage had been done and correcting it will be harder. Specially now that a lot of people are using the social medias to increase in number of scamming. How can we explain that kind of criminality.

[krishna1]

thats true sometime people just bitcoin by how bad it is being used till now.it is just being used by some bad people so that does not means that this is bad its just a money but they think this because their understanding about bitcoin is not clear