A woman has been arrested in the United States for hiring a killer with bitcoin

[F_Societys]

A woman has been arrested in the United States for hiring a killer with bitcoin  

A Nevada woman has appeared in federal court on charges of paying $ 5,000 in bitcoin to a killer to kill her ex-husband.

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

U.S. law enforcement officials say Homeland Security agents managed to crack down on bitcoins paid to hire a killer. These bitcoins are linked to the Falkins account on the local bitcoin website. Falkins is said to have spoken to the scammer before paying him.

The rumors circulating about this criminal case show that the scammer, over a period of one month, tried hard to persuade Falkins to use a more expensive method of murder. While the murder ultimately does not take place, the scammer cuts off contact with the Falkins without leaving a trace.

Federal agents say an unnamed hacker hacked the killer recruitment site, providing information such as conversations, bitcoin addresses and other data to security officials in January 2019.

The data provided by the hacker to the judiciary has similar implications to another case that federal agents are investigating. This case is also related to a killer recruitment website in Dark Web.



Judicial officials say their source provided a wealth of information about several open cases, but did not name herself or these sites.

Federal officials say the information provided by the hacker is "reliable." The archived documents of the case refer to the hacker as a foreign national convicted of possessing child pornography.

Documents in the Falkins case show that he cooperated with the US government without any financial request or even request for release from prison.

The US Department of Homeland Security has not yet officially commented on the matter.

Many people think that bitcoin transactions are untraceable and that they can be used to finance crimes "completely" anonymously. But the reality is that the bitcoin blockchain sometimes reaches out to security systems to handle cases more efficiently.

coindesk

[friends1980]

I'm not saying you copy-pasted this post, but since it sounds quite as if you did, you should add the source to your article, if not you will be banned for plagiarism.

[pixie85]

You have to be stupid to hire a killer these days. Most of the adds online are fakes set up by the police and you can't even be sure if the guy won't scam you.

It's so easy to take the downpayment and run because you know she won't report it. What would she say? I hired a killer and he didn't do his job?

[kryptqnick]

It's a shame that people consider murder to deal with personal issues. It's good that the killer wasn't hired, though. As for Bitcoin, I don't think the means of payment should be emphasized. What's bad is the killer part, not the Bitcoin part. But when Bitcoin is mentioned in such stories, the content of the story casts a shadow on BTC reputation as well. As if killers aren't hired with USD.

[F_Societys]

I'm not saying you copy-pasted this post, but since it sounds quite as if you did, you should add the source to your article, if not you will be banned for plagiarism.

I have added the source. Sorry you did not read it:

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

Also, I did not copy the text and turned it into an article.
And this statement of yours upset me.

[Lorence.xD]

You have to be stupid to hire a killer these days. Most of the adds online are fakes set up by the police and you can't even be sure if the guy won't scam you.

It's so easy to take the downpayment and run because you know she won't report it. What would she say? I hired a killer and he didn't do his job?

People make stupid decisions when their rationality is muddled by emotion in the case of this one maybe anger for her ex-husband. You can't really blame their stupidity if it involves emotions. The best thing that we can do is to crackdown this scammers online because they do know how to play with emotions and they exploit it because they know that law enforcement do not follow up on them. My advice to people that will attempt this stupid games of hiring "hitman" online is take a deep breath and ask yourself whether you can live with your choices and its consequences for the rest of your life.

Regarding OP, add a link so readers can validate the post whether they are from fake news website. It adds to the quality.

[pixie85]

Yes. Hiring a killer should be done in a chain and with familiarity.
Not directly

Unfortunately, people think that everything is like a movie

I'd say it shouldn't be done at all

There was a case years ago in the US where a woman tried this "chain" youre talking about. She contacted her friend and asked if he could help her find a killer because she wants to get rid of her husband. The guy went straight to the police and they sent an undercover officer to record her describing all the details.

Don't do it people!

[cabron]

Well its only just to arrest someone who violates the law, this as far as I know is attempted murder. Apparently she is using bitcoin to pay is just not making it bad for the reputation. It would have been good if coindesk also get the whole story as to why she wanted the guy dead.

Yes. Hiring a killer should be done in a chain and with familiarity.
Not directly

Unfortunately, people think that everything is like a movie

I'd say it shouldn't be done at all

There was a case years ago in the US where a woman tried this "chain" youre talking about. She contacted her friend and asked if he could help her find a killer because she wants to get rid of her husband. The guy went straight to the police and they sent an undercover officer to record her describing all the details.

Don't do it people!

I've seen this on TV. She still deny even after arrested. Seen lots of crime documentary, reasons are mostly about money, new love and kid's custody.

[mk4]

Though the bitcoin was definitely used in an unfortunate manner, well, in the end, it's just bitcoin being used the same way fiat money like the USD is being used. Surprise, I guess? Just a topic that got to the headlines because bitcoin is involved.

[glowing10]

It's a shame that people consider murder to deal with personal issues. It's good that the killer wasn't hired, though. As for Bitcoin, I don't think the means of payment should be emphasized. What's bad is the killer part, not the Bitcoin part. But when Bitcoin is mentioned in such stories, the content of the story casts a shadow on BTC reputation as well. As if killers aren't hired with USD.

Perfectly explained mode of payment is just an option like it can be paid in anything be it fiat or crypto, the result of murdering something is the biggest thing out here. Its unfortunate that such things happen as such people do not deserve to live freely and now police will take its action. But media has its own light to portray in negative way for crypto hope this stops.

[Ayiranorea]

Myself too saw a list of websites on an youtube video through which one can hire a killer. For each activity there is different pay rate. The service starts from fracturing, harming to killing. Upon that I don't think this news to be big. When there is good with something, it'll also have negative things associated with it. The users need to use it for the good and not for the bad.

[k@suy]

Myself too saw a list of websites on an youtube video through which one can hire a killer. For each activity there is different pay rate. The service starts from fracturing, harming to killing. Upon that I don't think this news to be big. When there is good with something, it'll also have negative things associated with it. The users need to use it for the good and not for the bad.

It is indeed sad to hear this news that even bitcoin can now use in huge crimes like hiring a killer for killing someone that is we know innocent. And also what saddens the most is can also be used in crimes not only in cyber or virtual world but also in reality. This is would be another reason that's why most of the people are still disagree on using bitcoin.

[peterpanda]

Obviously it is not a good think from a women. In this digital world, it is one kind of foolishness. Some government don't adopt for this kind of activities.

[qwertyup23]

It's a shame that people consider murder to deal with personal issues. It's good that the killer wasn't hired, though. As for Bitcoin, I don't think the means of payment should be emphasized. What's bad is the killer part, not the Bitcoin part. But when Bitcoin is mentioned in such stories, the content of the story casts a shadow on BTC reputation as well. As if killers aren't hired with USD.

Exactly! I was about to mention that the hire of the killer could be done using any other payment method. It just so happened that the lady used bitcoin in her transactions which, unfortunately, contributed to the stigma of bitcoin as a means of perpetrating a crime. Just because bitcoins have been linked to be a method of payment for illegal transactions does not make its entirety negative and illegal.

Myself too saw a list of websites on an youtube video through which one can hire a killer. For each activity there is different pay rate. The service starts from fracturing, harming to killing. Upon that I don't think this news to be big. When there is good with something, it'll also have negative things associated with it. The users need to use it for the good and not for the bad.

I mean, people can always hire or purchase contrabands using any payment method. It is just unfortunate that bitcoins have been put in a negative spotlight which contributes to its growing stigma among the people.

[TedMosby]

I'm not saying you copy-pasted this post, but since it sounds quite as if you did, you should add the source to your article, if not you will be banned for plagiarism.

I have added the source. Sorry you did not read it:

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

Also, I did not copy the text and turned it into an article.
And this statement of yours upset me.

he means you should add the source link.
https://www.coindesk.com/nevada-woman-charged-in-bitcoin-murder-for-hire-as-a-mystery-hacker-again-turns-tipster

she ordered a hitman(s) in 2016. no wonder she paid 12 bitcoins which worth $5,000 at the time.

[MFahad]

It's a shame that people consider murder to deal with personal issues. It's good that the killer wasn't hired, though. As for Bitcoin, I don't think the means of payment should be emphasized. What's bad is the killer part, not the Bitcoin part. But when Bitcoin is mentioned in such stories, the content of the story casts a shadow on BTC reputation as well. As if killers aren't hired with USD.

Bitcoin has nothing to do with this incident. Consider that she could have paid fiat to the killer too. The focus should not be on what is paid to the killer, the main point is women who did this wrong thing by hiring a killer. I don't think coin desk should emphasize on this story much as it is not related to crypto currencies.

[CarnagexD]

You have to be stupid to hire a killer these days. Most of the adds online are fakes set up by the police and you can't even be sure if the guy won't scam you.

It's really funny why there are people who think that hiring killers online is legit, though I'm not really sure but logically how are these people gets the job done especially when you're from the other side of the globe. And yes, if there is going to be a killer for hire online that could be just an entrapment operation for the authorities trying to capture some criminals online.

What would she say? I hired a killer and he didn't do his job?

The story is really shady, I don't get to see the source, could have been a made up story. I'll buy into this story once a credible source shows up.

[Lizzie_Girl]

It's a shame that people consider murder to deal with personal issues. It's good that the killer wasn't hired, though. As for Bitcoin, I don't think the means of payment should be emphasized. What's bad is the killer part, not the Bitcoin part. But when Bitcoin is mentioned in such stories, the content of the story casts a shadow on BTC reputation as well. As if killers aren't hired with USD.

There is no killer...    It's a scam. People that kill don't work on the internet.

You have to be stupid to hire a killer these days. Most of the adds online are fakes set up by the police and you can't even be sure if the guy won't scam you.

It's really funny why there are people who think that hiring killers online is legit, though I'm not really sure but logically how are these people gets the job done especially when you're from the other side of the globe. And yes, if there is going to be a killer for hire online that could be just an entrapment operation for the authorities trying to capture some criminals online.

What would she say? I hired a killer and he didn't do his job?

The story is really shady, I don't get to see the source, could have been a made up story. I'll buy into this story once a credible source shows up.

I'm pretty sure authorities have better things to do. Anything that is extreme that you see online is a scam. All that scary stuff is just made up for entertainment. They do make good storied. There is a tv series about the darkweb stories. Yes, its made up but its still fun.

[target]

You have to be stupid to hire a killer these days. Most of the adds online are fakes set up by the police and you can't even be sure if the guy won't scam you.

It's really funny why there are people who think that hiring killers online is legit, though I'm not really sure but logically how are these people gets the job done especially when you're from the other side of the globe. And yes, if there is going to be a killer for hire online that could be just an entrapment operation for the authorities trying to capture some criminals online.

What would she say? I hired a killer and he didn't do his job?

The story is really shady, I don't get to see the source, could have been a made up story. I'll buy into this story once a credible source shows up.

She couldn't find a better way, hiring someone who she personally met is more stupid.

If I have to put my self in her shoe, I couldnt find a better way than seeking an online hitman, most likely on the deepweb so it can't blackmail me to ask for more than $5k. If she just desperately wanna kill the husband, she should just be the one to do it. Its however going to take a pro of the pro to get away wit hthe forensic investigations.

[Wexnident]

Seems like an old article? 12 bitcoins which equated to $5000, at today's price, 12 bitcoins should go for around more than $100,000. Sides, even if we do say that the woman got it since she didn't hide her address, that was years ago when not much was really being paid attention to the security or privacy of addresses of most people. Plus, oddly enough, it's either the killer met up with the woman herself and transferred BTC directly, or through address, but in that case, the killers should also know who the woman is. If that was the case, kind of stupid from the side of the woman who hired the killer.

There is no killer...   It's a scam. People that kill don't work on the internet.

There is, but negotiations broke down. If what @TedMosby's link is actually the article op has said, then negotiations broke down after the killer tried to offer more expensive ways to kill someone. Seeing that OP and the link provided pertain to the same woman, it should be the same story OP has said.

[nbusser]

Obviously it is not a good think from a women. In this digital world, it is one kind of foolishness. Some government don't adopt for this kind of activities.

Are you talking about ordering a hitman or paying with cryptocurrency? 

[JakobFugger]

There is no killer...    It's a scam. People that kill don't work on the internet.

There are thousands of murder cases that have been ordered on the internet. In forums, marketplaces, etc. This is very common. Cases that have been documented and tried with thousands of evidence.

Of course, most of these offers are scam. People trying to deceive others. But this is everywhere. The point is that a murderer is not able to kill thousands of people on demand. usually someone who wants to offer these services kills no more than 5 people. In general, people ask for someone with some proximity. An ex-security guard, a known ex-police officer, etc. When this possibility does not exist, He will search on the internet.

What does not exist are specific murder marketplaces that are reliable. Obviously, successful isolated cases may have occurred. But most of these marketplaces are scams. The big problem to be solved is the question of the oracle. In a negotiation between two parties, if one decides to deceive the other, we need a third party to decide who is right.

There are thousands of projects on track to offer this oracle without human interference. A decentralized oracle. It is an opportunity, but also a great risk.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen

[eaLiTy]

A woman has been arrested in the United States for hiring a killer with bitcoin  

This is not the first time i am hearing a news about wife and ex wife hiring a killer, Dalia Mohammed case was a media sensation as all her communications were recorded and she hired an undercover cop to kill her husband and another news which hit the headlines recently was the wife of a  footballer Emre Belözoğlu put a hit on him after he filed for divorce and in this case the ex wife tried to hire a hitman in 2016 and it was revealed to the authorities by an convict.

According to coindesk  Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

A correction ex wife Kristy Lynn Felkins hired to kill her ex husband.

 

[Bitcoinislife09]

I've heard a lot of things about hiring a killer in deep web thing where you could pay bitcoin to some illegal things or something like hiring a killer. Well, killing your ex-husband? seriously? Maybe he falls into a trap or someone offers this to him and the woman just takes the offer because she wants to kill her ex-husband. I'm sure that the authorities could tract a lot of these transactions because of a lot of their trusted sources. But 5000$ was a big amount of bitcoin  just invest it instead of using it in killing.

[Yatsan]

A woman has been arrested in the United States for hiring a killer with bitcoin  

A Nevada woman has appeared in federal court on charges of paying $ 5,000 in bitcoin to a killer to kill her ex-husband.

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife.

I have read this thread a couple of times and I am sorry for being to practical on correctness of the words used for it is supposedly a news article so every single word matters because a misused word can lead up to confusion considering this is a news article. I know it was stated in the subject that a woman is arrested due to criminality of hiring a killer using Bitcoin but that just not ends in there. I am reading the entire article not just the title all alone and what I can say that to avoid plagiarism this thread of yours have undergone paraphrasing which leads to interchanging words resulting to errors.

I'm not saying you copy-pasted this post, but since it sounds quite as if you did, you should add the source to your article, if not you will be banned for plagiarism.

I have added the source. Sorry you did not read it:

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

Also, I did not copy the text and turned it into an article.
And this statement of yours upset me.

Also, it is not enough just citing on where it came from for you still must have provided the news article so that we can see the overall article itself that includes the whole story about this case. Citing where it came from must always include URL that is linked to the article to support this thread. Overall, this is really an awful scenario on how people is becoming pathetic to hire killers and using Bitcoin as a tool to make transactions to come up on doing this.

[Baofeng]

Seems like an old article? 12 bitcoins which equated to $5000, at today's price, 12 bitcoins should go for around more than $100,000. Sides, even if we do say that the woman got it since she didn't hide her address, that was years ago when not much was really being paid attention to the security or privacy of addresses of most people. Plus, oddly enough, it's either the killer met up with the woman herself and transferred BTC directly, or through address, but in that case, the killers should also know who the woman is. If that was the case, kind of stupid from the side of the woman who hired the killer.

It's because the supposedly crime happen years ago, that's why 12 bitcoins is $5k then.

Of course it is a scam and she feel for it, the bad thing is that she was caught will all the info. We also have to give kudos to the hackers who help the agent in this case. Here is the court documents: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/press-release/file/1319781/download

[Ryker1]

Well, I think this is one of the article that the OP came from the topic. ^{[ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/nevada/articles/2020-09-26/nevada-woman-accused-of-bitcoin-murder-for-hire-plot ]}

This is not new, even fiat money has the same cases as this. Perhaps social media again trying to spread FUD news to have an effect on the price. Everyone have a choice in making crime and it is involved either crypto or fiat money are the same. But why if the crypto are involved they keep spreading on it. I dont like an article like this, perhaps I suspected that the whales doing this for the price manipulation.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

So what? would you label bitcoin as a bad tool?

I think this information will not give much to bitcoin and an overview from other to bitcoin. Using bitcoin is like you use money in you whole day now, you can't judge and give a bad assesment into bitcoin and tell them to another people now, they have known bitcoin well.

[kezinaur14]

Seems like an old article? 12 bitcoins which equated to $5000, at today's price, 12 bitcoins should go for around more than $100,000. Sides, even if we do say that the woman got it since she didn't hide her address, that was years ago when not much was really being paid attention to the security or privacy of addresses of most people. Plus, oddly enough, it's either the killer met up with the woman herself and transferred BTC directly, or through address, but in that case, the killers should also know who the woman is. If that was the case, kind of stupid from the side of the woman who hired the killer.

There is no killer...   It's a scam. People that kill don't work on the internet.

There is, but negotiations broke down. If what @TedMosby's link is actually the article op has said, then negotiations broke down after the killer tried to offer more expensive ways to kill someone. Seeing that OP and the link provided pertain to the same woman, it should be the same story OP has said.

It got necroed by some twitter "news" handles and it took off, anyway, I saw this earlier today in one such profile. I mean I'm all for bitcoin chatter either way.

[MCobian]

Nowadays people are losing their human nature, it can very easily decide to kill someone. For me kill flies already feel guilty,
moreover reading articles like the opening post, gives me the creeps to read articles like this. Actually this happened because
the person couldn't control his emotions, because anger can make us unable to think logically. But related to hiring a killer with
Bitcoin is not new in my opinion, there have been several similar instances too.

[Rengga Jati]

A woman has been arrested in the United States for hiring a killer with bitcoin  
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coindesk

First, it is better to enclosure the lin source of this news. I know that you didn't copy paste and plagiarize the ar5ticle. However, it will help us and more trusted if enclsuring the source.
I have searched the news and probably it is here:
https://www.coindesk.com/nevada-woman-charged-in-bitcoin-murder-for-hire-as-a-mystery-hacker-again-turns-tipster

It is very This crime has been started in spring 2016 but it was failed.
First of all, I want to say that this incident was truly inhuman and outrageous. Whatever the cause, a wife is willing to spend a lot of money to kill a man who is none other than her ex-husband. Isn't this an outrageous thing but we can't turn on the woman because we don't know the exact trauma or problem that triggered this premeditated murder.

Next, regarding how to pay the killer using Bitcoin. I hope that the emphasis on Bitcoin shouldn't be too high. because here it is just like any other contract murder. Where they use money or other valuables as compensation for crimes they have committed.
Bitcoin is just a manner that those irresponsible people use. Right now if that happens, maybe not many people will think negatively about Bitcoin. because anything can be used as a guarantee for him. Someone might use BTC, money, gold, and more when they want to hire hitmen like this.

The data provided by the hacker to the judiciary has similar implications to another case that federal agents are investigating. This case is also related to a killer recruitment website in Dark Web.

This is precisely what is very dangerous. However, such is the one on the dark Web and we, as before, still can't do much with the site.
If they make recruitment like that, of course, it is not only in one country. Maybe it could be an international crime. This must be immediately acted upon and eradicated.

I do not want to comment on the law and punishment that the woman should pay. But, I really want to make sure that we may never think that BTC is used for crimes only. This depends on the owners whether going to use it for crimes or not. As many criminals also use BTC for money laundry or even other crimes.

[verita1]

This is a disappointing case. So many good things that can be done with Bitcoin and make them stand out anywhere in the world and people create hell by doing illicit acts like this. Fortunately, the case was not carried out, As the article says, people have a wrong concept about the anonymity of Bitcoin.

[F_Societys]

This is a disappointing case. So many good things that can be done with Bitcoin and make them stand out anywhere in the world and people create hell by doing illicit acts like this. Fortunately, the case was not carried out, As the article says, people have a wrong concept about the anonymity of Bitcoin.

Yes. This can do a lot of damage to the character and face of Bitcoin.
I just hope that these things will be lessened one day so that the people of the world will become more familiar with the true face of Bitcoin.

[F_Societys]

Nowadays people are losing their human nature, it can very easily decide to kill someone. For me kill flies already feel guilty,
moreover reading articles like the opening post, gives me the creeps to read articles like this. Actually this happened because
the person couldn't control his emotions, because anger can make us unable to think logically. But related to hiring a killer with
Bitcoin is not new in my opinion, there have been several similar instances too.

Maybe these illustrations and games or even movies have subconsciously affected people.
We also saw in previous years that bitcoin was used for drugs, smuggling, and so on.
I hope the people of the world will prosper.
Hoping that day.

[F_Societys]

So what? would you label bitcoin as a bad tool?

I think this information will not give much to bitcoin and an overview from other to bitcoin. Using bitcoin is like you use money in you whole day now, you can't judge and give a bad assesment into bitcoin and tell them to another people now, they have known bitcoin well.

It is true.
We see thousands of types of cash violations every day, however, why does it not spoil its face ??
Perhaps the only thing to consider is that cash has been around for hundreds of years, but bitcoin has only just entered the economy for a few years.
Let me give you an example:
A child who has just entered a school gets into fights with everyone and steals and ...
The manager also warns the child or fires him.
But another child who has been in school for several years and knows how to steal and break without the principal complaining to him.

This was a conceptual example.

[F_Societys]

A woman has been arrested in the United States for hiring a killer with bitcoin  

A Nevada woman has appeared in federal court on charges of paying $ 5,000 in bitcoin to a killer to kill her ex-husband.

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife.

I have read this thread a couple of times and I am sorry for being to practical on correctness of the words used for it is supposedly a news article so every single word matters because a misused word can lead up to confusion considering this is a news article. I know it was stated in the subject that a woman is arrested due to criminality of hiring a killer using Bitcoin but that just not ends in there. I am reading the entire article not just the title all alone and what I can say that to avoid plagiarism this thread of yours have undergone paraphrasing which leads to interchanging words resulting to errors.

I'm not saying you copy-pasted this post, but since it sounds quite as if you did, you should add the source to your article, if not you will be banned for plagiarism.

I have added the source. Sorry you did not read it:

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

Also, I did not copy the text and turned it into an article.
And this statement of yours upset me.

Also, it is not enough just citing on where it came from for you still must have provided the news article so that we can see the overall article itself that includes the whole story about this case. Citing where it came from must always include URL that is linked to the article to support this thread. Overall, this is really an awful scenario on how people is becoming pathetic to hire killers and using Bitcoin as a tool to make transactions to come up on doing this.

Okay. You accept my apology.
After all, you are an experienced member and I am a new member and I need your experience.
I hope you are lucky dear friend.

[F_Societys]

I've heard a lot of things about hiring a killer in deep web thing where you could pay bitcoin to some illegal things or something like hiring a killer. Well, killing your ex-husband? seriously? Maybe he falls into a trap or someone offers this to him and the woman just takes the offer because she wants to kill her ex-husband. I'm sure that the authorities could tract a lot of these transactions because of a lot of their trusted sources. But 5000$ was a big amount of bitcoin  just invest it instead of using it in killing.

Someone who has spent so much money really could have made a good investment with all of it. Or he could have done other important things.
This is where it is said that money does not make sense.

[Yaunfitda]

For this woman, making a contract to someone in the darkweb to hire a killer is already a sin. Look she was still hoping that it will go as plan, but look at how the scammers did to her, ask for more money. And then someone leaked the information to the authorities getting here arrested and for sure going to jail for her actions here, very stupid. As far as bitcoin, it's dark market, people only transact their using crypto what do you expect? But it doesn't mean that bitcoin is going to be used for this purposes only, it's just part of the equation.

[Bekuciwu9]

I dont see whats the news here. The way i see it, woman used money to hire killer , as bitcoin is money. Its not like she used potatoes or corn to pay the killer, that would be a news though.

[samputin]

It's a shame that people consider murder to deal with personal issues. It's good that the killer wasn't hired, though. As for Bitcoin, I don't think the means of payment should be emphasized. What's bad is the killer part, not the Bitcoin part. But when Bitcoin is mentioned in such stories, the content of the story casts a shadow on BTC reputation as well. As if killers aren't hired with USD.

Bitcoin has nothing to do with this incident. Consider that she could have paid fiat to the killer too. The focus should not be on what is paid to the killer, the main point is women who did this wrong thing by hiring a killer. I don't think coin desk should emphasize on this story much as it is not related to crypto currencies.

Well, since bitcoin is mentioned, they published it. And another story where bitcoin is involved in a wrong doing. If people would read this just by reading the headline, some ignorants would think that bitcoin is really and only used for such acts. Funny some people think that crypto like bitcoin is used only for misdeeds and not thinking that fiat is also used to pay murderers or criminals.

[friends1980]

I'm not saying you copy-pasted this post, but since it sounds quite as if you did, you should add the source to your article, if not you will be banned for plagiarism.

I have added the source. Sorry you did not read it:

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

Also, I did not copy the text and turned it into an article.
And this statement of yours upset me.

he means you should add the source link.
https://www.coindesk.com/nevada-woman-charged-in-bitcoin-murder-for-hire-as-a-mystery-hacker-again-turns-tipster

she ordered a hitman(s) in 2016. no wonder she paid 12 bitcoins which worth $5,000 at the time.

The essence of the problem is that your original articles are in English of high quality, but your replies are low quality posts in English of moderate quality. That's extremely suspicious.

Also, your shitposts get reported by me and deleted by the mods, yet you continue to post the exact same "yes oh my gawd you're so rite" replies to every single person who posts a reply here. If you wish to post such childish stuff, I'd suggest you start your own forum or a blog or whatever, instead of polluting this community which is doing everything every day over and over to keep spammers and shitposters like you out of here.

So quit whining about being upset and delete your posts from today voluntarily, instead of letting other people waste their time and energy reporting and deleting them, until eventually you get banned.

[FlightyPouch]

It's a shame that people consider murder to deal with personal issues. It's good that the killer wasn't hired, though. As for Bitcoin, I don't think the means of payment should be emphasized. What's bad is the killer part, not the Bitcoin part. But when Bitcoin is mentioned in such stories, the content of the story casts a shadow on BTC reputation as well. As if killers aren't hired with USD.

Bitcoin has nothing to do with this incident. Consider that she could have paid fiat to the killer too. The focus should not be on what is paid to the killer, the main point is women who did this wrong thing by hiring a killer. I don't think coin desk should emphasize on this story much as it is not related to crypto currencies.

So true, as said by @mk4, it is just a headline because bitcoin is included. I guess this also shows us how bitcoin is not actually an anonymous crypto currency since they could still track the girl. I am confused with the other information given though.

[plvbob0070]

Why would she even trust hiring a killer without really knowing who's the killer and how she can trust him that she'll get what she paid for. She should've done it herself because she'll just also end up in jail. But kidding aside, some people really think that they can run away with all their wrongdoings using bitcoin... People who think this way is just ruining the image of bitcoin, giving others a misconception about bitcoin that's why some people think bitcoin is something bad.

[bryant.coleman]

It is difficult to believe these "stories". Can anyone be so dumb to actually hire a murderer for just $5,000? I still remember the case of Ross William Ulbricht. The FBI wanted to make sure that he remains behind bars for the rest of his life and it is being alleged that they created some fake web chats showing that he hired contract killers to take down his competitors. It is very easy to create fake web chats.

[Leviathan.007]

I could not believe that really some people can kill other people for bitcoin until I visited the darkweb. If you visit darkweb (I would highly recommend you not to) there are many websites and organizations there you can give them some bitcoins to kill anyone you want in all over the word. I even saw the option where you can could ask them for a body part or ask them to make it looks like and accident. Which really crazy and unbelievable to see some people created a website for it. I think these actions are really damaging the bitcoin reputation in all over the world to see the criminals are using the bitcoins (and recently sometimes monero) as the main currency for their dirty works.

[coolcoinz]

According to coindesk  Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

A correction ex wife Kristy Lynn Felkins hired to kill her ex husband.

OP can't even quote an article without messing it up  

It is difficult to believe these "stories". Can anyone be so dumb to actually hire a murderer for just $5,000? I still remember the case of Ross William Ulbricht. The FBI wanted to make sure that he remains behind bars for the rest of his life and it is being alleged that they created some fake web chats showing that he hired contract killers to take down his competitors. It is very easy to create fake web chats.

With Ross they had a lot on him and that murder for hire was just one of the many. They usually try to get a video or a voice recording.
In her case they had transcripts of messages sent between her and a guy pretending to be a killer for hire.

What would she say? I hired a killer and he didn't do his job?

The story is really shady, I don't get to see the source, could have been a made up story. I'll buy into this story once a credible source shows up.

This one is real.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kristy Lynn Felkins, 36, of Fallon, Nevada, was indicted today for a murder-for-hire plot, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
According to court documents, Felkins sent 12 bitcoin (valued at approximately $5,000 at the time) to a darkweb hitman website to have her ex-husband murdered. (...)The website turned out to be a scam, and Felkins was not refunded the bitcoin she sent to the site, which is no longer in operation.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/nevada-woman-indicted-hiring-hitman-darkweb-kill-her-ex-husband

[molsewid]

I could not believe that really some people can kill other people for bitcoin until I visited the darkweb. If you visit darkweb (I would highly recommend you not to) there are many websites and organizations there you can give them some bitcoins to kill anyone you want in all over the word. I even saw the option where you can could ask them for a body part or ask them to make it looks like and accident. Which really crazy and unbelievable to see some people created a website for it. I think these actions are really damaging the bitcoin reputation in all over the world to see the criminals are using the bitcoins (and recently sometimes monero) as the main currency for their dirty works.

Why can't someone like you believe that bitcoin can use as payment for killing other people? As we all know, bitcoin right now is convertible to cash, and the anonymity features more likely use in illegal transactions. So someone who can do the job and know-how to use bitcoin will take this offer. So I think it's not unbelievable for us.

This kind of news will give a wrong impression for bitcoin. Like in our country, my parent after they heard the bad news about bitcoin, they think bitcoin is used only for illegal transactions.

[Xembin]

If someone can make use bitcoin to purchase any kind of commodities in some country, i think people can also use bitcoin to hire a killer or spear people life also.
For her to make use of bitcoin to hired that killer to kill for her,  it have no effect to bitcoin than to promote bitcoin how important it is a in country.
since the killer said she make use of bitcoin to hired him,very easy to trace if actually the court want to know the truth of the matter whether she make use of bitcoin for the payment to the killer.

[yazher]

Anyway, this kind of hiring method is pretty old and they can be easily tracked now. Mostly, this kind of thing happened in the dark web because most of the underground transactions such as this are common there. Most of the time people who offer such services are just scammers and fraudsters but there is a tendency that you are talking to real criminals which were happened here in this topic. That's why of all the places on the internet you should avoid going to that place.



https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reasons-avoid-dark-web/

[babykika2027]

Sometimes womens have really mad ideas...

[yulchatar]

Well its only just to arrest someone who violates the law, this as far as I know is attempted murder. Apparently she is using bitcoin to pay is just not making it bad for the reputation. It would have been good if coindesk also get the whole story as to why she wanted the guy dead.

Yes. Hiring a killer should be done in a chain and with familiarity.
Not directly

Unfortunately, people think that everything is like a movie

I'd say it shouldn't be done at all

There was a case years ago in the US where a woman tried this "chain" youre talking about. She contacted her friend and asked if he could help her find a killer because she wants to get rid of her husband. The guy went straight to the police and they sent an undercover officer to record her describing all the details.

Don't do it people!

I've seen this on TV. She still deny even after arrested. Seen lots of crime documentary, reasons are mostly about money, new love and kid's custody.

I would also add violence to your list as a reason to take revenge on the offender in the same way, but only more "effectively".
Perhaps her husband beat her, perhaps also threatened her with violence.
And in general, apparently, this woman did everything quickly, was emotionally unstable and didn't know much about cryptocurrency transactions, so she made so many mistakes.

[Tamim121]

I hear that Bitcoin is use most in dark web for buying illegal things. Though I'm not 100% sure about that.  But in my opinion no one can trace Bitcoin transaction, this can be a reason why they use Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is not responsible for this. People illegal use and bad thinking responsible for this.

[Shohanur]

I hear that Bitcoin is use most in dark web for buying illegal things. Though I'm not 100% sure about that.  But in my opinion no one can trace Bitcoin transaction, this can be a reason why they use Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is not responsible for this. People illegal use and bad thinking responsible for this.

How it is possible to someone to trace the transaction of bitcoin? We know that bitcoin is a decentralized coin and user can use it on sweet well. But you got the last point that bitcoin is not responsible for such kind of work.

[AakZaki]

Yes, I agree about Bitcoin, which is only a payment option, like FIAT payments, which is different, only bitcoin transactions can be anonymous. But Bitcoin's reputation will not remain good in my opinion, because in this case murder is the main problem and then BTC is only an alternative payment. It is unfortunate if bitcoin is used as payment for criminal or illegal actions.

[target]

It is difficult to believe these "stories". Can anyone be so dumb to actually hire a murderer for just $5,000? I still remember the case of Ross William Ulbricht. The FBI wanted to make sure that he remains behind bars for the rest of his life and it is being alleged that they created some fake web chats showing that he hired contract killers to take down his competitors. It is very easy to create fake web chats.

So you believe Ross didn't put a hit to those men?
The guy looks very harmless actually but later it was discovered that the wallet where he sent the fee for the hit was his old friend who also tried to scam him for this hits. There really isn't a way to know all the facts besides those FBI men.

One shouldn't trust a  hired hitman because ultimately these men are just going to extort you in the end. Lots of stories about this.

[F_Societys]

For this woman, making a contract to someone in the darkweb to hire a killer is already a sin. Look she was still hoping that it will go as plan, but look at how the scammers did to her, ask for more money. And then someone leaked the information to the authorities getting here arrested and for sure going to jail for her actions here, very stupid. As far as bitcoin, it's dark market, people only transact their using crypto what do you expect? But it doesn't mean that bitcoin is going to be used for this purposes only, it's just part of the equation.

This woman has been deceived and lost her property.
I also agree with you that a lot of crimes are being committed these days and a limited portion belongs to Bitcoin.
People are quick to point to this limited area and say bad bitcoin.
Yet they forget its goodness.

[Oceat]

Yes, I agree about Bitcoin, which is only a payment option, like FIAT payments, which is different, only bitcoin transactions can be anonymous. But Bitcoin's reputation will not remain good in my opinion, because in this case murder is the main problem and then BTC is only an alternative payment. It is unfortunate if bitcoin is used as payment for criminal or illegal actions.

It is widely known in the dark web as a way of payment for any services they offer. If you haven't know it has been used for years as a way of payment for almost everything you want in the dark web. Bitcoin is not really anonymous since everything is being recorded in the blockchain that can be viewed in a public ledger. The woman probably didn't take enough time to do her own research about how the authorities could follow the transaction.

[AmoreJaz]

For this woman, making a contract to someone in the darkweb to hire a killer is already a sin. Look she was still hoping that it will go as plan, but look at how the scammers did to her, ask for more money. And then someone leaked the information to the authorities getting here arrested and for sure going to jail for her actions here, very stupid. As far as bitcoin, it's dark market, people only transact their using crypto what do you expect? But it doesn't mean that bitcoin is going to be used for this purposes only, it's just part of the equation.

This woman has been deceived and lost her property.
I also agree with you that a lot of crimes are being committed these days and a limited portion belongs to Bitcoin.
People are quick to point to this limited area and say bad bitcoin.
Yet they forget its goodness.

because media is blowing up the situation. they always wanted to report any fraudulent activity surrounding bitcoin. but forget to highlight the importance of this creation.
 they are fast to report news like this, how btc is used in this kind of activity. and for those noncrypto users, they think that btc is really a fraud whenever they read this kind of news.
but the fact is, a lot of fraud has been happening when it comes to fiat money. youre right, bitcoin only share a small portion on this.
 a lot of ignorant people are stuck to this perspective, that btc is in the bad light because of this fraudulent/illegal activities or whatever they call it

[batang_bitcoin]

I was just watching about kinds of stuff like this on Youtube and she probably has been chatting with an agent. With the evil plan that she had, karma came to her quickly.

I hear that Bitcoin is use most in dark web for buying illegal things. Though I'm not 100% sure about that.  But in my opinion no one can trace Bitcoin transaction, this can be a reason why they use Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is not responsible for this. People illegal use and bad thinking responsible for this.

It is because it's untraceable and the girl was just traced through chat logs and on that log, there's the address indicated which led the investigators to an account on localbitcoins which had detected her.

[F_Societys]

I'm not saying you copy-pasted this post, but since it sounds quite as if you did, you should add the source to your article, if not you will be banned for plagiarism.

I have added the source. Sorry you did not read it:

According to coindesk Thirty-six-year-old Kristy Lynn Felkins has been summoned to court on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife. The case is said to be related to another case involving the recruitment of a killer. It is worth noting that this killer was not hired in the end.

Also, I did not copy the text and turned it into an article.
And this statement of yours upset me.

he means you should add the source link.
https://www.coindesk.com/nevada-woman-charged-in-bitcoin-murder-for-hire-as-a-mystery-hacker-again-turns-tipster

she ordered a hitman(s) in 2016. no wonder she paid 12 bitcoins which worth $5,000 at the time.

The essence of the problem is that your original articles are in English of high quality, but your replies are low quality posts in English of moderate quality. That's extremely suspicious.

Also, your shitposts get reported by me and deleted by the mods, yet you continue to post the exact same "yes oh my gawd you're so rite" replies to every single person who posts a reply here. If you wish to post such childish stuff, I'd suggest you start your own forum or a blog or whatever, instead of polluting this community which is doing everything every day over and over to keep spammers and shitposters like you out of here.

So quit whining about being upset and delete your posts from today voluntarily, instead of letting other people waste their time and energy reporting and deleting them, until eventually you get banned.

I will do this soon. Also, during the conversation I had with the director of the association, it was decided that my previous articles, which are not of good quality, would be removed and new, high-quality articles would be replaced.
I also have to say about responding to others that I do as you say and spend more on analytical answers.

Why would she even trust hiring a killer without really knowing who's the killer and how she can trust him that she'll get what she paid for. She should've done it herself because she'll just also end up in jail. But kidding aside, some people really think that they can run away with all their wrongdoings using bitcoin... People who think this way is just ruining the image of bitcoin, giving others a misconception about bitcoin that's why some people think bitcoin is something bad.

By doing this, not only will the face of Bitcoin not be tarnished, but it will also make people who have never heard of Bitcoin known to it.
This is what makes Bitcoin so popular.
At the same time, it should be borne in mind that the ultimate goals of this news are in the hands of the people and they must maintain their awareness.

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

[Assface16678]

Well we all know that the use of the bitcoin before it came with the darknet or the deep web they are using on the black market is the bitcoin is one of the easiest and secured transaction but the problem is do we really need to use this coin just to get a life of a person.

I was just watching about kinds of stuff like this on Youtube and she probably has been chatting with an agent. With the evil plan that she had, karma came to her quickly.

I hear that Bitcoin is use most in dark web for buying illegal things. Though I'm not 100% sure about that.  But in my opinion no one can trace Bitcoin transaction, this can be a reason why they use Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is not responsible for this. People illegal use and bad thinking responsible for this.

It is because it's untraceable and the girl was just traced through chat logs and on that log, there's the address indicated which led the investigators to an account on localbitcoins which had detected her.

On the internet we are giving a trace with the use of the different information we leave when we are using this do there is no doubt that the investigators will find out that mastermind which.

[F_Societys]

It is difficult to believe these "stories". Can anyone be so dumb to actually hire a murderer for just $5,000? I still remember the case of Ross William Ulbricht. The FBI wanted to make sure that he remains behind bars for the rest of his life and it is being alleged that they created some fake web chats showing that he hired contract killers to take down his competitors. It is very easy to create fake web chats.

The important thing in this case is the name of Bitcoin.
I think governments want to make bitcoin look bad because the whole world depends on cash, and governments know that.
Bitcoin will take a lot of power from them.
Now, they may want to tarnish the identity of Bitcoin with news or fake deeds and pretend to people that Bitcoin is bad.

I could not believe that really some people can kill other people for bitcoin until I visited the darkweb. If you visit darkweb (I would highly recommend you not to) there are many websites and organizations there you can give them some bitcoins to kill anyone you want in all over the word. I even saw the option where you can could ask them for a body part or ask them to make it looks like and accident. Which really crazy and unbelievable to see some people created a website for it. I think these actions are really damaging the bitcoin reputation in all over the world to see the criminals are using the bitcoins (and recently sometimes monero) as the main currency for their dirty works.

I have seen these sites and I can say that more than 70% of them are either police or spies.
These are the only ways to trap criminals.
And the other 30 percent who use bitcoin, I think, is normal.
In the past, criminals traded in cash, gold, etc. and if Bitcoin can improve itself in terms of good deeds, it can show people what its true power is.

If someone can make use bitcoin to purchase any kind of commodities in some country, i think people can also use bitcoin to hire a killer or spear people life also.
For her to make use of bitcoin to hired that killer to kill for her,  it have no effect to bitcoin than to promote bitcoin how important it is a in country.
since the killer said she make use of bitcoin to hired him,very easy to trace if actually the court want to know the truth of the matter whether she make use of bitcoin for the payment to the killer.

Bitcoin will not slip with these actions and these violations.
All Bitcoin has to do is stay on track and show the world that it is not just for murder and theft.
Instead, Bitcoin is set to change cities and lifestyles.
And that only happens over time.

Anyway, this kind of hiring method is pretty old and they can be easily tracked now. Mostly, this kind of thing happened in the dark web because most of the underground transactions such as this are common there. Most of the time people who offer such services are just scammers and fraudsters but there is a tendency that you are talking to real criminals which were happened here in this topic. That's why of all the places on the internet you should avoid going to that place.



https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reasons-avoid-dark-web/

In the past, it was difficult to trace these events. But now, with the advancement of police science, almost all roads are closed and people think that everything is like a movie and they can do anything.
Also, when you enter the dark web space, there are thousands of scammers, and if you lose property, nothing can be done.
And it is not only bitcoin that is traded on these networks, and today, as in the past, there is a large volume of cash transactions.

And this is a complete picture:



[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

[supine]

I'm not saying you copy-pasted this post, but since it sounds quite as if you did, you should add the source to your article, if not you will be banned for plagiarism.

I found the source just by searching what the title says here is the link Source.
I know that this kind of things aren't new in this world but I still found it scary how people could easily pay for someone else life to end and how they could live facing this world like nothing happens.

[F_Societys]

Sometimes womens have really mad ideas...

These ideas are not for women or men, and sex discrimination cannot be discussed here.
People take crazy actions with misconceptions that are sometimes based on the lifestyle and influence of internet networks and movies.
Although this article is a small example of this, it was interesting because of the bitcoin debate.

[stompix]

Though the bitcoin was definitely used in an unfortunate manner, well, in the end, it's just bitcoin being used the same way fiat money like the USD is being used. Surprise, I guess? Just a topic that got to the headlines because bitcoin is involved.

The rules for articles in the press now is that you need to attract readers by all means, and unfortunately, bitcoiners and crypto lovers are the prime targets, you put some good news, they immediately flood the net with links, you write something bad about bitcoin they immediately get triggered but nevertheless they still read the article. Easy money!

But in my opinion no one can trace Bitcoin transaction, this can be a reason why they use Bitcoin.

How it is possible to someone to trace the transaction of bitcoin?

Bitcoin is pseudonymous, besides,  :
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/press-release/file/1319781/download

She gave the fake admin every detail needed to identify her by law enforcement agencies.

[PonZZ]

I don't like when something like this accident happens. It harms the Bitcoin reputation. Many people still associate Bitcoin with money laundering and illicit activity.

[MickLichz]

Well I'm not surprised that the authority or someone keep track or trace the transactions made in crypto or bitcoin, it is because as the time goes by I know that the technology is becoming more powerful tool even in internet. But the thing is this woman did a stupid decision driven by her emotion she didn't think carefully and just hired a killer people now a days tend to do things before they think and this woman's doing could add a bad impression about bitcoin used for this kind of things which is not good for bitcoin industry. At least the authority manage to track the transaction and able to stop the crime, technology and internet now a days is getting more scary.

[ralle14]

I don't like when something like this accident happens. It harms the Bitcoin reputation. Many people still associate Bitcoin with money laundering and illicit activity.

These kind of activities won't stop and it shouldn't harm Bitcoin's reputation at all since the same activities can be done with other currencies as well but with Bitcoin it's only going to be worse for them since everything is posted in the Blockchain and the authorities can easily gather evidence against the people involved. It only looks bad for Bitcoin because usually these bad news gain the attention of most people and those people don't even use Bitcoin to begin with.  

[batang_bitcoin]

I was just watching about kinds of stuff like this on Youtube and she probably has been chatting with an agent. With the evil plan that she had, karma came to her quickly.

I hear that Bitcoin is use most in dark web for buying illegal things. Though I'm not 100% sure about that.  But in my opinion no one can trace Bitcoin transaction, this can be a reason why they use Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is not responsible for this. People illegal use and bad thinking responsible for this.

It is because it's untraceable and the girl was just traced through chat logs and on that log, there's the address indicated which led the investigators to an account on localbitcoins which had detected her.

On the internet we are giving a trace with the use of the different information we leave when we are using this do there is no doubt that the investigators will find out that mastermind which.

Yes. The investigators got the lead of tracing her and most logs and that's where it all leads everything. Those bitcoin addresses and the plan as in everything that in the chat logs are strong evidence to prove her plan.
Another reason why many still don't like bitcoin because of such news, they all think that bitcoin is just for this kinds of stuff.

[F_Societys]

I don't like when something like this accident happens. It harms the Bitcoin reputation. Many people still associate Bitcoin with money laundering and illicit activity.

It makes sense to consider it relevant.
Because it is easier and more interesting for fraudsters to track it down.
The solution is to change the way we look and think.
And people should not think that bitcoin is just for money laundering.

Well I'm not surprised that the authority or someone keep track or trace the transactions made in crypto or bitcoin, it is because as the time goes by I know that the technology is becoming more powerful tool even in internet.

This woman's emotional decision had three consequences:
1- The woman herself is found guilty
2- Injury to the public mind
3- Destroying the face of Bitcoin
Of course, bitcoin is not destroyed by these actions, but this news can draw negative views towards bitcoin, and in this case, governments will take strange actions ...

[snipie]

To resume this: bitcoin is safer than FIAT hidden in dark cases, since law agencies can track it and bust criminals so fast? That's good to hear.

[Ucy]

.. on charges of paying 12 bitcoins ($ 5,000 at the time) for trying to hire a killer to kill his ex-wife

Wondering if this^ means that bitcoin was worth $5000 at that time, or the total of 12 bitcoins was $5000(at approximately $417 per coin)? Just trying to figure out exactly when this happened.

Many people think that bitcoin transactions are untraceable and that they can be used to finance crimes "completely" anonymously. But the reality is that the bitcoin blockchain sometimes reaches out to security systems to handle cases more efficiently.

Well, nice! I guess this is part of the reason it was made a transparent Leger in the first place... And combining the transparency with proper privacy/anonymity makes things safer for innocent users.