Topic: Bitcoin and kiddie porn - page 3. (Read 765 times)

Child pornography is very common in the dark web plus the common payment they've been using to access the site is mainly the Bitcoin. This news is nothing new it is widely happening around the world some of these children were from different countries and is also a victim of human/child trafficking.

I'm glad that the authorities find the responsible people of making these injustice and unlawful crime.

Well, obviously they didn't. Bitcoin isn't terribly anonymous, especially if people don't use a different address on each transaction. In these types of operations often the weak link lies in the laziness of the people involved. In any investigation, they have to find out which address belongs to whom, and then start solving the puzzle.

Linking the alleged operation to Bitcoin is stupid, Bitcoin has nothing to do with it, its a coin like any other, and if people think they can evade justice with it, they have to think twice. Yes its "possible", just like its possible with fiat, but that doesn't mean its going to "protect" you if you don't have a clue.

There are many details that we will never know. Did the site changed the address for payments on each payment? I doubt it. Did the users? unlikely. Can the agents infiltrate and start gathering incriminating data? probably. And none of it has anything to do with Bitcoin. If anything it may be that Koreans like Bitcoin but that's about it.

The media, as usual, wants to correlate Bitcoin with evil, always. Since the very beginning, back when Satoshi still posted, with the Wikileaks donations.

Once upon a time the Slipknot group wrote a song 'people = sh*t' Unfortunately, Bitcoin is used on the black market, including for kiddie porn. It's disgusting, I want these people to be punished and be jailed to prison

Bitcoin is not related to kiddie porn, it's bad people who use Bitcoin in bad places. This is not bitcoin's fault. Even those bad people use all the digital money in bad activities when Bitcoin is anonymous, but they can cheat on other digital money by using a fake identity or fake IP! Is it Bitcoin or other money's fault? No way. Is Kiddie porn a new thing in the world? No, it's not. It was available even before Bitcoin creation! You can't blame Bitcoin or other privacy coins rather try to blame those shady people.

It's been there before Bitcoin was created. They've been there on the darkweb for decades. Bitcoin just made these criminals more free and made their life easier because of its features. Actually Bitcoin is just one of the most used by criminals these days. There are several alternative cryptocurrencies out there are being used for illegal doings.

Indeed that is the reason most people wanted privacy so that they can do their desires without other knowing it.  This is the sad truth about having freedom/privacy, those who have nefarious intent exploit this kind of freedom in order to do their illegal stuff, and this kind of stuff is also holding back Bitcoin for so long since government can never condone such act.

What's negative about this news can someone explain?

Child porn was there in the 70s and 80s and the number of pedophiles who are found and brought to justice is increasing thanks to the Internet and people helping to track them down.
When there was no Bitcoin it did not stop them from trading porn for dollars and they are still doing it.
They were caught.
Thanks to this more people will hear about Bitcoin
Those idiots could've chosen a really anonymous cryptocurrency and not Bitcoin.

Well, it is a good thing to know that even law enforcement now has been knowledgeable about tracing crypto transactions in order to caught those illegal activities. It will stop that kind of business and also protect children from being abusement. Well, probably the criminals did not have much idea on bitcoin transactions, that's the reason why the authorities were busted them and shutting down their sites. I'm just happy to know this kind of news, sounds like it will trigger to adopt other countries in bitcoin since some illegal activities will be caught.

Not exactly how I get it but I think meant that when cryptocurrency provides privacy, those bad actors are going to be taking advantage of its features.

Well BTC isn't exactly an anon coin, it can be traced and can actually help authorities when these criminals misunderstood btc to be untraceable. Anyway The news didn't blame BTC  or any crypto for being part of their operation.

Honestly this is one of the most neutral news I have seen related to the crypto industry more specifically towards Bitcoin. I've read the whole article hoping for some silent jabs against Bitcoin being the main tool for this crime to happen but I was surprised there was none found in the whole article. This is what I am hoping for news media sites are not insinuating on anything against cryptocurrency and they are more focused against the crime involved and not Bitcoin entirely. Back then you will see a lot of new sites go in the opposite direction where it made Bitcoin like the main ingredient for this crimes to happen that is why we got a bad impression from the start.

maybe the government and the law enforcement agencies should do a better job of bringing their colleagues to justice?


there are countless stories now from 20th century about people in politics, the police, showbusiness or intelligence being involved in sexual abuse of children, some of the most egregious examples were going on right under their noses.

Jeffrey Epstein is the most blatant example recently. This guy was a billionaire hedge fund associate, hung out with Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Kevin Spacey, Bill Clinton and dozens more powerful world figures. He got an 18 month sentence in 2008 for having sex with a 13 year old girl, and spent most of it on "office leave" flying his private jet to his private island in the Caribbean (where he regularly trafficked teenage girls to sexually abuse, and where alot of these celebrities, corporation owners and former world leaders seemed to enjoy visiting )

Out of that 18 month "sentence", Epstein served 13 months. For good behavior . He slept in prison, then went straight out after breakfast to the airport where his private plane was housed, on "business". He donated several million dollars to the low category prison he slept at too, but they took a little time and gave it back. Presumably they thought that whatever corrupt deal he was trying to get from them wasn't worth a few million dollars.


The "justice" system and the "prison" system let that happen. The newspapers knew, but because it embarrassed very powerful people, they kept their mouths shut till summer 2019 (almost 10 years too late), then did a quick expose at the time of the year (summer) while most people quit reading the news because there's no serious stories (politics, finance and sport are out of season all summer long)


Not 1 Bitcoin involved, and the US justice system did everything they could to cover it up and help the people involved look as good as possible. And the newspapers made one of the most corrupt scandals ever look like it was important for 5 minutes, when they knew about the whole thing for 10 years. The Trump-haters are the biggest hypocrites here; Trump was significantly involved with this guy in the 2000's, and it's hard to believe that someone as well connected as Trump (especially as Trump's daughter was a teenager at the time) did not know he was a sex trafficker of teenagers. And yet the Trump bashing media said ZERO about it, when all the facts were available to them the whole time, and very likely because of Bill Clinton and other Democrat siding people's involvement too (one of Epstein's co-conspirators was a guest at Clinton's daughters wedding, after Epstein was finished with prison, and while still a part of Epstein's staff )



So don't give me this "government good, Bitcoin bad" crap, they give zero fucks when it's their friends that are the pedophiles

This shows how popular it's becoming and at the same time how little understanding of cryptocurrency payments these people have. They chose Bitcoin as the best payment method but got caught so it proves to the media that bitcoin still can be traced and that it doesn't guarantee anonymity. It works only as long as people aren't ready to dedicate a lot of resources to tracing it. This means that if you want to hide your shopping habits or gambling addiction it's perfect but if you hire hitmen or pay for child porn you're going to get caught.

This is one of the negative effects for bitcoin because it is abused for disgusting transactions and very pornographic, and that is one of the reasons the government prohibits it because it is misused for negative things and crime as a transaction tool.
must be completely eradicated which can damage the image of bitcoin for the worse.

Same a like with how people really knew how fiat money being used illegally by those people who intentionally control over it. There's always other side of the stories, they are just highlighting things since particularities of bitcoin is really undeniable. We should learned how to work with such things and expect that not only those who intend to use this currency for good will exist but also those people who wanted to take advantage will keep looking for another outlet to perform their illegal activities.

bitcoin is a code. bitcoin has no arms, bitcoin has no legs, bitcoin has no brain, it is people who have arms, legs and a thinking brain (allowing them to distinguish right from wrong) that are committing crimes. It's the same with gun ownership laws. For some people, who own a gun is to commit crimes, but let's say we have an alliance invasion someday? How will civilians defend themselves? Sometimes news channels don't seem to think before posting or commenting on things

Hahaha made my day mate lol 😂

Why every crime that happens always be blamed for bitcoin?dos this pornography is already here even bitcoin wasn’t existed?then why now pointing fingers just because of privacy?

Well there are lots of this to come so be ready fo that mate,anyway this will be here even without bitcoin

“Through the sophisticated tracing of bitcoin transactions, IRS-CI special agents were able to determine the location of the Darknet server, identify the administrator of the website and ultimately track down the website server’s physical location in South Korea.”

How does that work then?

Well, we should be thankful for Bitcoin and blockchain technology because if it wasn't conceived, the world will be overwhelmed by these sick bastards who prey on  children's innocence! I think they thought that BTC would be safe to use  and could give them absolute privacy thus were encouraged by it to do their evil deeds thinking that by using this technology, it could make them anonymous and unstoppable!

But in fact,  if they have not been careful enough, they could be traced through their Bitcoin transactions and their identities could also be revealed - that could connect them to that monster website, which I think will give a strong evidence to guarantee an indictment!

If you think that sharing child porn is privacy  . If they use those privacy privileges then they will be prosecuted and be in the jail for a very long time.
There are certain things you need to obey and that does not include these sort of illegal activities and i am glad they are arrested and sent to jail for a very long time but since you mentioned bitcoin alongside these porn sites, only fools will use bitcoin for illegal activities .

Probably they ABUSE it.
And this by far is sick and gross of pedophiles. I might assume that the site is the one who advise to use bitcoin as mode of payment to those who want to hide their identity.

On the best side, the criminals are now behind bars, however some surely will wait the news to be over and business as usual again.