Kids Are Using Bitcoin to Buy Fake IDs Online

[alani123]

The thing is that you can find someone to sell you almost anythng online. Is it because of the anonymity bitcoin offers? I don't think so! Bitcoin's anonymity is partial, realy few people use the appropriate tools to be fully anonymous with it. There are several other payment processors that provide anonymous transactions and are used for fraud too. Why put the blame on bitcoin when there are registered companies that profide the same tools to fraudsters and also in a larger volume?

Few examples would be Perfect money and Payeer. Top e-currency payment processors used for controversial transactions and money laundering.

[bluemeanie1]

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/how-kids-are-using-bitcoin-to-buy-fake-ids-online/362008/

kids are using US Dollars to buy fake IDs.  Should we ban US Dollars?

notice how they are never consistent with this thinking.

-bm

[oXo]

Of course.  They're saving their greenbacks for the hardcore drugs they buy on the street.  The cause is not the coin, it's a lack of guidance and support through good parenting. 

I agree to most of this, it doesn't matter if they do it with cash or with bitcoins as those are just currencies, but it's people's nature's and teaching that determine these.

[mezmerizer9]

Well today, no one wants to blame their kids, Its always someone elses fault.

[keithers]

Poor parents are always the ones that are so quick to blame everyone but themselves for their children's decisions and actions.   They love to point the finger at someone (in this case Bitcoin), and blame bitcoin for their inability to monitor their own kids.

If it wasn't bitcoin they would be buying these with cash anyway.   Probably the cash that they obtained from selling the pills out of these same parents medicine cabinets. 

[Davis14]

If there was no bitcoin then they would just be using something else perhaps LTC?