Is there something that Bitcoin was not blamed for yet?

[Kprawn]

Murder :

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-latest-bill-gates-cryptocurrencies-reddit-fentynl-deaths-money-laundering-criminal-a8232346.html

Druglords :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)

Child pornography :

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mgbeda/bitcoin-is-implicated-in-a-clearnet-child-porn-trend

Ransomware :

https://news.bitcoin.com/us-blames-bitcoin-ransomware-attack-wannacry-on-north-korea/

Terrorism :

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/fears-over-bitcoin-use-in-terror-financing

Scams :

http://www.badbitcoin.org/thebadlist/

What else have we not been linked to, since 2009? I think Bitcoin is the perfect payment option for both legal and illegal

transactions and we are even better than cash.... Or so they say.... 

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Family Disputes 

This wont happen in coming 1-2 years but will eventually happen in long run.
Think of a scenario when a father invests in Bitcoin and dies then sons and family members fighting to get the partition in their favor.. Though this seems dirty but money makes everything happen..and it is bitcoin.

[Inn0vative1]

You left out the biggest "sin" of all: Global Warming!:

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-global-warming/
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-mining-guzzles-energyand-its-carbon-footprint-just-keeps-growing/

Bitcoin must be so evil, it must be stopped!! 

[Sudhik]

I think that's depend by our self, Bitcoin come isn't for crime activity, but to make our easier to do payments.
I think that is wrong if we blame Bitcoin because of that, I think that ploblem (crime activity) can be happen without bitcoin. They can use money,  or another way. We can see around few years ago before bitcoin come , there many crime activity and the payment using money, should we blame money for it?
Don't blame the increasingly modern world, but blame who can't use it in good way!

[belyaevi]

A senior member mentioning that bitcoin is best payment option for legal and illegal activities. Are you trying to promote the use of bitcoins for such activities by saying so. We should be discouraging this because it is one of the main reasons why some countries are banning bitcoins in their community.

Any kind of negativity associated with bitcoins will hamper its chances to survive longer. Regarding bitcoins being associated with other problems like global warming, we should be looking at solutions to those problems instead of just laughing at them or ignoring them completely.

[taiwww]

Lolz. So you made the collection of every ways of spending the moeny in short. Whether it is legal or illegal bitcoin has out reached to every other corner of the world. That makes us think that bitcoin is already good payment system and people are using it without disclosing their identity really. Also we don't know many things yet, if bitcoin is so anonymous then it could be the case that military people are using it to buy and sell the weapons also. Yeah this could be the case guys, we would never know about such instances as their transactions are most secured one. Bitcoin could turn out to be big surprise if this news comes to be true in the future.

[Wind_FURY]

Ok, then let's start blaming cars, cellphones, computers, fiat money, the banks and all the other modern inventions that assisted criminals in perpetuating their crimes.

Bitcoin is hear to stay.

[Loveboard]

Lol, ironically, btc has not been blamed for suppressing and manipulating African poverty. That's one thing I'm pretty happy about. Bitcoin is known for helping solve the African financial problems by cutting the lines in banks where people can't even access their money.

Now that's pretty neat . Btc is like Africa'S hero, trying to solve exploitation by banks and helping Africans attain financial control.

[MysteryMiner]

The only bad thing associated with Bitcoin are Scams. All other "evil" things are just boogeyman of western world.

[Herbert2020]

the media has a magnifying glass at their disposal and they can choose to focus that on any different aspects they want. so far the have chosen to focus that on all the negativity surrounding bitcoin and most of it is lies anyways.
any logical person can see that bitcoin may be involved in all of the things mentioned so far but the involvement is only a very tiny part of it, there is a lot more to bitcoin than just the negativity and on top of that it is not as much as fiat is involved in all of those things.

[Shreek]

I've heard about bitcoins used by terrorists, I think they are not responsible, they just want  make bitcoin shunned by the public, so the part of people who wants the bitcoin crushed will be happy.

and, I agree with you, bitcoin is the legal currency that will be accepted by the world as a tool of transactions, and it will happen within the next 5 or 10 years.

[Kakmakr]

I would add a increase in the divorce rate and also dismissals from work. ^smile^   The reason for this is as follows :
A lot of people get into Bitcoin and they become totally obsessed with the technology. This leads to marital problems, because the partner gives too much attention to his/her Bitcoin matters and neglect their spouse.

This can also be applied to the work environment, where people use their employers resources to mine coins. There has been several reports where people was dismissed, because they mined coins on their employers IT infrastructure.

[jseverson]

How could you forget money laundering? That's like, what every single government representative says about the issue. Everyone is a money launderer now!

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-low-risk-for-money-laundering-high-for-cybercrime-uk-treasury

Also, would you believe Bitcoin is a contributing factor to the nuclear war? North Korea is using it to fund nukes!!1one!11!!

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-cryptocurrencies-north-korea-hackers-digital-currency-exchange-security-a8171931.html

But yeah all of these are just ridiculous lmfao. It just goes to show that people will twist just about anything to fit their narrative.

[MAJICOIN]

Beside all these activities bitcoin is also using for the good purposes as well and with every currency there are so many bad affects also come into the market like the criminal activities are also happens through bitcoin and with this currency many problems are sort out in the present time. I like to use bitcoin it is good currency for good people too,

[u9y42]

You can strike off "blamed for hindering the search for extra-terrestrial life" from the list of things it hasn't been blamed for: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43056744 ("Crypto-currency craze 'hinders search for alien life'") - other radio astronomers, as well as many gamers, are also not happy.

Scientists listening out for broadcasts by extra-terrestrials are struggling to get the computer hardware they need, thanks to the crypto-currency mining craze, a radio-astronomer has said. [...] The Seti scientists are currently trying to improve their capacity for analysing such data at two observatories - Green Bank in West Virginia and Parkes in Australia. But they have been hit by the GPU shortage. "We've got the money, we've contacted the vendors, and they say, 'We just don't have them'," said Dr Werthimer. [...]

[FrueGreads]

Didn't even knew there was a website called badbitcoin.org. So much hate! (EDIT: read their footnote and I know they are not against bitcoin, and just try to expose the scams in the community. I still don't think bitcoin scams are different from fiat scams, so I don't see the need for a specialized website for the so called "bitcoin scams". I think they are just trying to take advantage of the bitcoin brand, but it's ok.)
I think those news are just stupid and were made just to get those clicks and traffic sites needs to get adds and things like that. I'm glad that with the recent decrease is resulting in the loss of interest from those price driven "investors" (apparently the google search for the term bitcoin, has been decreasing as it's price drops). Maybe this way we will get rid of those so called "news sites" that only exist to spread fake news and rumors.

I think that everyone that is well informed knows that those news are just stupid. Thanks for sharing though, sometimes those articles are good for us to have a good laugh.

[alyssa85]

You missed out North Korean sanctions busting via ze evil bitcoin:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-11/north-korea-hackers-step-up-bitcoin-attacks-amid-rising-tensions

Some people are going to be gutted if Trump manages to pull off a peace deal.

[squatz1]

Nah, that's normal though. The MSM (and dumb people) are trying to blame Bitcoin for so many things as a way to make us look like a horrible group of people which is only involved in criminal activities, this makes it easier to ban us when they want to and it makes the public not care / look the other way when that day comes.

It's smart by the msm but it really is going to fuck us in the future.

[Sexie]

I think that's depend by our self, Bitcoin come isn't for crime activity, but to make our easier to do payments.
I think that is wrong if we blame Bitcoin because of that, I think that ploblem (crim activity) can be happen without bitcoin. They can use money,  or another way. We can see around few years ago before bitcoin come , there many crime activity and the payment using money, should we blame money for it?
Don't blame the increasingly modern world, but blame who can't use it in good way!

Bitcoin always involves with such blame, according to media now a days. It helps to increase the number of rich people anyways It helps unemployed people to have their own income. If they have to blame bitcoin in some other kind of evil things, it just all comes from all local money , the root of all evil things. People using Bitcoin as they way of easy payments through internet. If  people Will use it in a much better way there is no more terrorist and no more greedy people in this world.

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[VitKoyn]

Well it is true that Bitcoin is always being blamed and linked into illegal activities and crimes as if the fiat currencies are not getting involved in this. Governments and other people who don't want the use of cryptocurrency to be legal should understand that any currency, commodity or anything that has a value can always be use on illegal activities, and they just have to accept that they cannot destroy Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies by linking Bitcoin with drugs, crimes, terrorism, or even money laundering. Because at the end, people will still decide if they want Bitcoin to stay here and it is more likely to go that way.

[Wind_FURY]

The only bad thing associated with Bitcoin are Scams. All other "evil" things are just boogeyman of western world.

But those are part of what gives Bitcoin its value. The ability to act outside the banking system like you have never acted before.

I believe that its censorship resistance and regulatory arbitrage properties should be revered through "scams". Hahaha.

They cannot make it stop.

[bitcoinrays]

I've heard about bitcoins used by terrorists, I think they are not responsible, they just want  make bitcoin shunned by the public, so the part of people who wants the bitcoin crushed will be happy.

and, I agree with you, bitcoin is the legal currency that will be accepted by the world as a tool of transactions, and it will happen within the next 5 or 10 years.

I am really astonished with people who can even think of such stupidities. Like someone was saying, bitcoins are becoming a source of corruption, bitcoins are being used throughout in dark web and human trafficking and all such crimes. Dudes, this is bad image of bitcoins that we are promoting. Some bad people are using wrong side of the coin and we are happy to share it, causing devaluing to bitcoins.