There has always been crime, and bitcoin is often used in crime on the internet. It has created a bad image of bitcoin, but om glad that at least in my country, the media covers only the positive parts of bitcoin
as much as it perpetuates a negative stigma of bitcoin, you need to show the bad parts of what happens in the cryptocurrency world. there's no point in making bitcoin seem like a perfect idea, people need to be aware, or be given the opportunities to be aware of everything they can concerning their finances. it might be nice to just hear good news all the time, but there's no point in sheltering people in the long run. whatever media outlet's youre watching that only cover the positives of bitcoin, id advise you to stop watching those.
Criminals have always used and will use advanced technology for their own purposes. However, this is not an excuse to ban them. For example, many crimes are always committed with the use of household knives. However, it never occurred to anyone to prohibit knives, because criminals use them. This is the problem of law enforcement agencies as such criminals to find and isolate. This should not stop technical progress.
anyone will use anything available to them. not using the resources available to you is just limiting yourself, nothing more. as it follows, normal currency, the kind we're used to is widely used by criminals as well, in fact, the great majority of criminal dealings involve fiat currency. so why is it not illegal? there's zero actual substance to the 'criminals use bitcoin' argument as far as i can see.
