Is bitcoin used by criminals ?

[Eclipse26]

Bitcoin Main goals not used criminal activities. If some people it used criminal activities Who can not be held responsible for all Bitcoin users. Why not, one socity all quality full people are live.

I think bitcoin can be used by criminals. Honestly they are anywhere. Anyway I think people wont let those criminals to success on their plans. Actually bitcoin helps us all in our financial needs which criminals make it as an opportunity to do crimes against people who have lot of money. Criminals can also used it through transaction since it was private and no knows about it between you and the receiver.

[SMSabuj]

I once read an article that says bitcoin is used as a payment transaction for terrorists and hackers. And maybe you guys in this forum also already know it. But here i want to convey my personal opinion in that matter. I think that internet and bitcoin interrelated. Many terrorists and criminals use internet .so also with bitcoin which used perpetrator However, despite all these issues, do people make concrete efforts to ban the internet? No. Not because removing and banning Bitcoin is difficult, but because the internet offers more positive than negative. For the same reason, we have to be more careful about our mindset for Bitcoin, because much evidence has shown that Bitcoin brings many positive, if not more, effects than the internet. Internet and Bitcoin are just devices that 'bad guys' and 'good people'. Fortunately, the world is filled with more people in the 'good people' category.

Yes, Bitcoin is used as a payment for Terrorists and Criminals. Bitcoin is the blessing for them. They use Bitcoin for their payment system. Because Bitcoin is Decentralize. Nobody can track them. That's why the use Bitcoin.

[9jaflick]

this happen at the early stage of bitcoin, where drug dealers, criminal and people using bitcoin to purchase guns. presently i dont think this is still happen anymore, because i dont think any wise criminal will try using bitcoin for it transaction anymore because bitcoin is not as anonymous as it used to be 

[Xester]

Honestly, bitcoin/altcoins can be use by Good and bad people. So my answer is yes! it can be use by the criminals it is because its kind an open source that can be use use for illegal purposes.

Yes it is indeed used by many criminals I guess now that bitcoin has did not asked for any identities.  Every transactions are quite easy without giving your identity.  But if criminals will do anything as they please, even using criminals can do it.

[marabanda]

Lol, seriously? Of course not, except that only stupid criminals, because there are already a lot of time there are ways to track transactions on bitcoin. Criminals use monero.

[sheenshane]

this happen at the early stage of bitcoin, where drug dealers, criminal and people using bitcoin to purchase guns. presently i dont think this is still happen anymore, because i dont think any wise criminal will try using bitcoin for it transaction anymore because bitcoin is not as anonymous as it used to be 

That's possible happen if user in bitcoin abused on it, yes you are right that bitcoin transaction cannot identify who is the user on it.
I don't if some who tried to traced a criminal using blockchain trasaction, that's some reason why other country prohibited bitcoin in their place. Like what happen in Russia they did not accept bitcoin through that same reason, their ministry said about bitcoin " Trades with cryptocurrencies have become so widespread, a legal ban on such activity would lead to the creation of conditions for the use of cryptocurrencies as an instrument to service illegal businesses, launder criminal incomes, and finance terrorism,” .
We could not blamed them besides we respect what the decision they made.

[chaukhchi]

Of course it can be because the criminals are many ways to perform their actions one of them to commit fraud and criminals can be innovative lately even they are looking for ways and means to continue their activities without the authorities knowing it and bitcoin can be a tool for it.
Bitcoin can be used as a payment of weapons and drugs.Because Bitcoin use is never limited to a group of good people or bad people.

[Virman01]

it all depends on the way we use it, as well as the knife if we use for the positive thing the knife is useful for cutting fruit vegetables and so on, and vice versa, if we use a knife for a negative thing then we can use the knife to kill people. as well as bitcoin.

[Crash21]

I am sure that it's the most popular currency in criminal world because your transactions anonymous and can't be detected. Darknet is good expample.

[jayveerastrullo]

by this time i think there are criminals that uses bitcoin to scam other users. of course for you not to be one of the victim you need to be knowledgeable on how bitcoin works.

[rose8963]

Actually, this problem has occurred. Criminals or some non-governmental organizations use Bitcoin's anonymous commercial features to use it as a tool to support illegal activities such as drug trafficking, poison and weapons. This problem is also one of the reasons bitcoin is banned from some countries. They have reason to worry about it.

[Jerical13]

Cryptocurrencies have actually led  with law enforcement, as agencies get better at identifying criminal behavior, while criminals come up with new evasion techniques and increasingly anonymous cybercurrencies in order to defeat the efforts of law enforcement. I think it is really so.

[argiyan.tri]

I've also read the same thing with you, used by criminals and so on. but we are good at using bitcoin today. we have to be wiser. do not let us also use it as a negative thing. for example gambling and the like.

[jhonnydeep87]

I have heard of paid assassins being paid through BTC and drugs being traded online. Some terrorists use it to handle weapons. The police are also difficult to track down the evil elements you know that decentralized transactions mostly guarantee the anonymity of their users. For now I do not know if it's still harassing because most offenders are caught by federal agencies and the dark web is turned off.

[tiktak89]

In fact, this information is out of date. Simply bitcoin was once used on the website where it was possible to buy illegal things, but the government quickly covered it. But the trace of "crime" on bitcoin still remained.

[AntonGrishko]

Bitcoin is just a currency so it can be used by crimes like any other. This is normal.

[muhdede]

I have heard of paid assassins being paid through BTC and drugs being traded online. Some terrorists use it to handle weapons. The police are also difficult to track down the evil elements you know that decentralized transactions mostly guarantee the anonymity of their users. For now I do not know if it's still harassing because most offenders are caught by federal agencies and the dark web is turned off.

that's why bitcoin is one global currency that can be accessed by criminals even when connected to the internet and therefore Bitcoin as one of the best land in allocating stolen money or crime proceeds to be converted e BTC so even the police will be difficult to track because of the many access bitcoin without using valid data identifier

[kuntet99]

Every person are allowed to use bitcoin, even the criminals. Bitcoins has no limitations on whom person were allowed. Even a common people who has the money to invest on it.

I agree, because everyone has the right to invest in bitcoin and not look at all people in any way.

[Ruthless67]

Bitcoin is being used by everyone, and maybe it is also being used by heads of states, so we do not know who uses bitcoin.

[sirkings0003]

It would not be ruled out that criminals also use bitcoin. Criminals also use the conventional banks for illicit transactions even with all the know your customer documentations. In as much as I don't encourage criminality, let it not be used as reason to tag bitcoin a bad name