Topic: A woman has been arrested in the United States for hiring a killer with bitcoin - page 2. (Read 846 times)
September 27, 2020, 10:45:20 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 10:29:07 AM
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
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.
September 27, 2020, 09:32:46 AM
Sometimes womens have really mad ideas...
September 27, 2020, 09:20:40 AM
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/
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reasons-avoid-dark-web/
September 27, 2020, 09:06:43 AM
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.
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.
September 27, 2020, 09:01:56 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 08:44:11 AM
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
September 27, 2020, 08:20:39 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 08:11:27 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 07:58:10 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 07:23:31 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 07:16:21 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 02:04:50 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 01:53:43 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 01:26:22 AM
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.
September 27, 2020, 01:16:44 AM
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.
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.
September 27, 2020, 01:14:55 AM
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.
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.
September 27, 2020, 12:39:27 AM
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.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.
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.
September 27, 2020, 12:34:20 AM
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.
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.
September 27, 2020, 12:28:30 AM
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.
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