This is really a stupid one. The guy who has been arrested was involved with criminal activities like hacking credit card and buying bitcoin with them. Now, what's the relation with bitcoin?
Before the bitcoin era, there were still credit card hacker and using them with fiat money.
I can smell the reality. Bangladesh govt is
trying to put a negativity on Bitcoin. The reports are being made as per the govt requirement and their hidden agenda against Bitcoin.
It's also quite confusing as the article is calling his wallets/addresses as "accounts" lol. I don't know if they were referring to his bank account or his bitcoin holdings with this quote:
None of the reporters who have reported on bitcoin so far have enough knowledge on bitcoin. I have read one article earlier about this issue. By "accounts" they were referring to bitcoin wallet/address actually. You can't even imagine how poor idea they have about bitcoin. Problem is we can't go public while using bitcoin, we can't directly criticize this or getting involve with this because of the laws. They are misleading people with wrong information.
Last year I had read a book on cryptocurrency written in Bengali, although author did a great job, still there was some mistakes.
Yeah, I've also had a look at a few Bengali articles floating around on the internet, though there are a select few. There are videos on YouTube too, but all of them are full of misinformation and people don't really know what they are talking about. I didn't expect anything more from the author of this article, and sure enough, they think bitcoin addresses as "accounts".
But, I am afraid that this kind of stuff might create a bad name for bitcoin, is the fact that acceptance in countries like where I live, India, might be affected severely due to this. First of all, the media reports nothing more about bitcoin but the scams that have been committed using bitcoin, and portrays bitcoin in a bad way. This will affect adoption, and may lead to banning of bitcoin (though unlikely, but a kind of ban WAS imposed on BTC in India, which was subsequently lifted). So yeah, I think it might be detrimental to adoption of bitcoin in certain states in the long run.
Actually, it is already giving bad image to bitcoin, because of wrong portrayal of the situation.
The media people always wanted to give the impression that bitcoin is somehow used in fraudulent activities.
We can't prevent them from publishing their works because that's where they earn their living.
We just hope that they will be more responsible with their reporting, and be more educated with the situation.
Should not give bias reporting but should just state matter-of-facts, which, a lot of them fail to do so.
Now, it is up to the reader how he look at this situation and how he can educate himself about this kind of topic.
