Criminality and Bitcoin

[arlinxoha]

Yes, I'm a little suspicious. But not entirely. Because I do not think that Bitcoin has increased the crime numbers in some countries in the world. But I know that criminal activity is happening even before Bitcoin.
Criminal activities are happening all over the world, it's done every day in our world.

[reflector]

Bitcoin has nothing to do with increase in criminality ratio.Criminality existed even before bitcoin was created and it would even exist in future if bitcoin disappears.Even if criminals want to use crypto currencies and hide their identity,they would go with mo nero or zcash which are fully anonymous and would not use bitcoins since bitcoin is pseudo anonymous.Bitcoin transactions could be easily traced unless sevices liking mixing bitcons is used.

Still there are huge amount of people troll the bitcoin and it is been used for illegal activities. I hope bitcoin is not a only source to use it for illegal uses. Even via paypal also they are doing transaction for these kind of purposes. If the bitcoin address revealed that they can back track via bitcoin address so no need to worry about it.

[Granxis]

Bitcoin was not so clean in the first days of the day, nobody can deny it, but it is now being used for good purposes, and Blockchain technology is being explored for use by many countries.

[Blackwhite69]

Criminals will always be there, before any money, criminals are rife, criminals can not be stopped while there is life, don't blame bitcoin if criminals use bitcoin for transactions.

I agree with you because criminals will always be there anywhere so this is not one of the bitcoin of crime.

[Eminem23]

Criminals will always be there, before any money, criminals are rife, criminals can not be stopped while there is life, don't blame bitcoin if criminals use bitcoin for transactions.

I agree with you because criminals will always be there anywhere so this is not one of the bitcoin of crime.

The criminals were before bitcoin and will be after bitcoin. They will always be regardless of the crypto currency. There is no correlation between criminal and crypto currency

[nejibens]

Criminals nowadays use all the sorts of currencies to complete their illegal trades, so we can't here talk only about bitcoin, fiat is also used a long time before even the Bitcoin's creation, and it is still used for this purposes till present.

[ghostunicorn]

Criminals will always be there, before any money, criminals are rife, criminals can not be stopped while there is life, don't blame bitcoin if criminals use bitcoin for transactions.

I agree with you because criminals will always be there anywhere so this is not one of the bitcoin of crime.

The criminals were before bitcoin and will be after bitcoin. They will always be regardless of the crypto currency. There is no correlation between criminal and crypto currency

The community should stop blaming bitcoin for criminality actions. Criminals get paid in many ways, even via dollars, euros and other currencies. Bitcoin is not a must for them.

[cjmoles]

Criminals will always be there, before any money, criminals are rife, criminals can not be stopped while there is life, don't blame bitcoin if criminals use bitcoin for transactions.

I agree with you because criminals will always be there anywhere so this is not one of the bitcoin of crime.

The criminals were before bitcoin and will be after bitcoin. They will always be regardless of the crypto currency. There is no correlation between criminal and crypto currency

The community should stop blaming bitcoin for criminality actions. Criminals get paid in many ways, even via dollars, euros and other currencies. Bitcoin is not a must for them.

It is true.  No self respecting currency is immune to corruption.  Many of the biggest markets around the world are illicit markets.  However, some currencies are better suited than others in the various markets.  Bitcoin's specialized markets are the digital markets....an increase in cyber crime cannot, alone, be attributed to bitcoin but attributed, more so, to the expansion for the digital markets in general.

[Edrian]

Surely bitcoin play a role to nurture illegal things and other criminality but I think even without bitcoin criminality will still increased. Though the role of of bitcoin in criminality is irremarkable. Everyone can bring more money to other country without the notice of other people.

[Blitzboy]

Criminals will always be there, before any money, criminals are rife, criminals can not be stopped while there is life, don't blame bitcoin if criminals use bitcoin for transactions.

I agree with you because criminals will always be there anywhere so this is not one of the bitcoin of crime.

The criminals were before bitcoin and will be after bitcoin. They will always be regardless of the crypto currency. There is no correlation between criminal and crypto currency

The community should stop blaming bitcoin for criminality actions. Criminals get paid in many ways, even via dollars, euros and other currencies. Bitcoin is not a must for them.

that is true. Because of being a kind of money, bitcoin is surely abused by many illegal individuals and organizations. And all kinds of money around this planet is being used for illegal purposes, not only bitcoin. However, bitcoin is providing us a good technology and the best transaction in the world. Cause of that reasons, we can not deny the benfits of bitcoin in our life

[gabbie2010]

Cybercrimes had been in existence before the evolvement of bitcoin, I have witnessed cases were some individuals were arrested by the police who used western union money transfer to fraudulently extort money although bitcoin may be another way to perpetuate such a crime but I believed the interpol has a special unit to checkmates cybercrimes particularly money laundering.

[ayeshajum07]

I dont think that would be the reason of increasing numbers of criminals. 

Even without bitcoin, criminals are continue to exist and beside there's a lot of ways to exchange payment on their transactions.

The great purpose of bitcoin are not meant for the criminal.

[J Gambler]

The is no doubt about the fact that criminal activities could be linked to every other currency not just bitcoin alone. And I don't agree with your submission that bitcoin has led to the increase in criminal activities or cyber crime. All criminal activities has been in existence and on the high level before the introduction of Bitcoin.

Yes because bitcois in anonymous. No one would be ever to know where does the other user spend their bitcoins. Whether they will use it as their funds for criminality or not. No one can ever predict it or say it. We just need to keep our mind set to be not likely to be like them. Bitcoin is free to everyone thats why.

[JL421]

I'm really sad that now bitcoin has started to get bad reputation because it is a easy way of doing illegal things and with some many accessories being introduced to bitcoin it keeps getting easier for to use bitcoin network for illegal purposes and I'm scared that because of this bitcoin doesn't get banned

[szpalata]

I'm really sad that now bitcoin has started to get bad reputation because it is a easy way of doing illegal things and with some many accessories being introduced to bitcoin it keeps getting easier for to use bitcoin network for illegal purposes and I'm scared that because of this bitcoin doesn't get banned

Fiat currencies like the US dollar are used every day to perpetrate crime but they don't get banned so why lump thus on Bitcoin now? It just doesn't make sense to think Bitcoin is going to be banned because people use it for illegality, we can't control how people should use their money, can we?

[smileee]

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/01/23/bitcoin-playing-an-increased-role-in-crime-europol-says/

Would you believe that the existence of bitcoin has increased the number of criminality in  some countries in the world. This is the issue that was being thrown by the EuroPol and the UK Metropolitan Police. According to them bitcoin has played a huge role on the increasing criminality in their area. They added that a huge number of cybercriminals were using bitcoins in their activities.

This just shows that as bitcoin develops both advantages and disadvantages will tag along.

One of Bitcoin's most convenient features is that users do not need to disclose personal information when dealing and that is beneficial for many people including criminals. They will take advantage of Bitcoin for profit, crime. And the strongest evidence is that the number of Bitcoin users increases, and the number of criminals increases.

[HughCaires]

Has BTC given criminals a way to increase their anonymity, yes. Has it increased criminality in general, no way. 

[Jombitt]

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/01/23/bitcoin-playing-an-increased-role-in-crime-europol-says/

Would you believe that the existence of bitcoin has increased the number of criminality in  some countries in the world. This is the issue that was being thrown by the EuroPol and the UK Metropolitan Police. According to them bitcoin has played a huge role on the increasing criminality in their area. They added that a huge number of cybercriminals were using bitcoins in their activities.

This just shows that as bitcoin develops both advantages and disadvantages will tag along.

 i think bitcoin bitcoin play a big role in increasing the rate of criminilatity because of being anonymous you can hire someone to kill (gun for hire) , scamming, and hacking those data. But even before  bitcoin arrived criminality is always the problem eversince

[secdark]

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/01/23/bitcoin-playing-an-increased-role-in-crime-europol-says/

Would you believe that the existence of bitcoin has increased the number of criminality in  some countries in the world. This is the issue that was being thrown by the EuroPol and the UK Metropolitan Police. According to them bitcoin has played a huge role on the increasing criminality in their area. They added that a huge number of cybercriminals were using bitcoins in their activities.

This just shows that as bitcoin develops both advantages and disadvantages will tag along.

 i think bitcoin bitcoin play a big role in increasing the rate of criminilatity because of being anonymous you can hire someone to kill (gun for hire) , scamming, and hacking those data. But even before  bitcoin arrived criminality is always the problem eversince

Agree with you pal! It is easy to send and receive bitcoin online  and used it in illegal activities . Like in deepweb you can used it to hire someone to kill and pay with bitcoin and that is the easy transactions.  Also you can buy guns and drugs and it will lead to high criminality rate. But overall it is not all about bitcoin it is all about people

[8Habits]

I'm really sad that now bitcoin has started to get bad reputation because it is a easy way of doing illegal things and with some many accessories being introduced to bitcoin it keeps getting easier for to use bitcoin network for illegal purposes and I'm scared that because of this bitcoin doesn't get banned

Fiat currencies like the US dollar are used every day to perpetrate crime but they don't get banned so why lump thus on Bitcoin now? It just doesn't make sense to think Bitcoin is going to be banned because people use it for illegality, we can't control how people should use their money, can we?

That is true mate. There is no way to ban a certain fiat or any form of currencies like Bitcoin if its main features are for the convenience of the consumers and offer a lot of value. The people who will have the bitcoin or fiat money is responsible for his actions of using it and it is not the fiat or bitcoins that will get blamed of any illegal transactions whatsoever.