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legendary
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but on a side note...If bitcoin is banned or illegal in your country, any transaction you will do will be illegal as long as it involves bitcoin right? Eventhough your aim or purpose is legal or lawful.

That's right. If the government in your country issues a total Bitcoin ban for whatever entity, then the purpose of using Bitcoin doesn't necessarily makes a difference since you are using Bitcoin even though you know it's prohibited to do so. That's something they can punish you for. But if they know you bought drugs or weapons, then it makes things far more severe. The punishment for that will come on top of the punishment for using Bitcoin.
sr. member
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Yes it is indeed being used for illegal activities. The main reason? Provides no way to trace the person apparently. Yet, it is even easier to find some Bitcoin criminal than someone selling drugs and receiving notes.
yeah people know that using bitcoin then people will not know the intent of your transaction, then it is very likely that bitcoin is used for illegal activities

Yeah, but on a side note...If bitcoin is banned or illegal in your country, any transaction you will do will be illegal as long as it involves bitcoin right? Eventhough your aim or purpose is legal or lawful.
I think in some countries bitcoin prohibited. does not mean they are doing anything illegal. #imo
if you do a drug transaction with bitcoin might be said that illegal? because all countries prohibit it
legendary
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I see more and more acrticles of bitcoin being used for illegal activities
will this hurt bitcoin in the long run , will governments ban this just like they started to do wih paying in cash for some services
to harden the use of illegal , and money laundering

I really think that your thread really meant nothing because bitcoin is a currency and just like other currency like dollar or other fiat money that are mostly involve in illegal transaction and can be involve in some illegal organization bitcoin is just the same if apply to some illegal activities that is why it is really common sense on what would people do with their bitcoin.

As long it has a value  it would surely  being  used   on  illegal services and  transaction. as  you said   its up to people  decision on how they gonna handle this  things and  how they would  use  up their  money. Bitcoin is  being used  for sure on  illegal things because of  its anonymity feature.

Yup! and that secure feature often times being used by people who's been illegally making transaction with bitcoin and I guess that is why the government wants their hands on controlling bitcoin so they could use it for themselves and I think there are other people that are imitating bitcoin that is why there are other coins out there.
hero member
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Yes it is indeed being used for illegal activities. The main reason? Provides no way to trace the person apparently. Yet, it is even easier to find some Bitcoin criminal than someone selling drugs and receiving notes.

Agreed, through bitcoin illegal activities can be done without revealing the identity as mentioned by the above mate. Also through darknet places one can get services that were not available for fiat or any other currency.
that's the good use of it there's products and services that can't be bought using a local fiat and only accept btc for sure those people who transact illegally doesn't wants to reveal their self that's why btc is very useful for them.
legendary
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Yes it is indeed being used for illegal activities. The main reason? Provides no way to trace the person apparently. Yet, it is even easier to find some Bitcoin criminal than someone selling drugs and receiving notes.
yeah people know that using bitcoin then people will not know the intent of your transaction, then it is very likely that bitcoin is used for illegal activities

Yeah, but on a side note...If bitcoin is banned or illegal in your country, any transaction you will do will be illegal as long as it involves bitcoin right? Eventhough your aim or purpose is legal or lawful.
Banning  bitcoin  is  the common way to stop these transaction but  it  cant really stop the  illegal  activities   because   transaction would  happen  underground and as we all know   transactions  could be hard to  trace  up because of  anonymity of   bitcoin thats  why  its still  useless to ban it for sure.
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Yes it is indeed being used for illegal activities. The main reason? Provides no way to trace the person apparently. Yet, it is even easier to find some Bitcoin criminal than someone selling drugs and receiving notes.
yeah people know that using bitcoin then people will not know the intent of your transaction, then it is very likely that bitcoin is used for illegal activities

Yeah, but on a side note...If bitcoin is banned or illegal in your country, any transaction you will do will be illegal as long as it involves bitcoin right? Eventhough your aim or purpose is legal or lawful.
full member
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I see more and more acrticles of bitcoin being used for illegal activities

Hmmm ... I never noticed this, but now that you mentioned it, I think you may be on to something.

will this hurt bitcoin in the long run

Quite possibly. I think that you should play it safe and just sell all your bitcoins. Like all the chicken shits say: "Better safe than sorry!"

will governments ban this just like they started to do with paying in cash for some services
to harden the use of illegal , and money laundering

I think they should. It would be your duty to support any proposed legislation that attempts to ban Bitcoin. After all Bitcoin is evil!  Grin Grin Grin
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Yes it is indeed being used for illegal activities. The main reason? Provides no way to trace the person apparently. Yet, it is even easier to find some Bitcoin criminal than someone selling drugs and receiving notes.

Agreed, through bitcoin illegal activities can be done without revealing the identity as mentioned by the above mate. Also through darknet places one can get services that were not available for fiat or any other currency.
legendary
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[quote author=betohell link=topic=1355048.msg16788098#msg1678aafter watching deepweb, I felt that from the first bitcoin is always used for illegal activities, although currently bitcoin has been used for legal purposes. but I think it is very reasonable, because the transaction very quickly from bitcoin and anonymous transactions, making it supports illegal transactions8098 date=1478387870]
i heard many illegal activities used bitcoin in deepweeb
but i think it will rise bitcoin in the future
many ppl used it so many ppl will look for it
yeah I think it is true that the news that there are many users who use bitcoin for illegal activities, even gambling also is illegal, because the bitcoin system are anonymous, this makes the user more comfortable using bitcoin for illegal activities
The legality of gambling depends from country to country so its impossible to generalize, in the subject of drugs the laws of the countries a re a lot closer to each other so you could draw some generalized arguments but even that is changing.
The issue I think people have with gambling is that the governments everywhere must get their cut.  If they do not, then they decide to make it illegal.  Just like alcohol and marijuana in the USA.  It is illegal because the government could not get their cut at first. 
Gambling is not illegal this is give entertainment to those people who have lots of money they do not ever know where they put their money that is why they do gambling. Bitcoin is can be used in illegal but this is depend on the users.
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after watching deepweb, I felt that from the first bitcoin is always used for illegal activities, although currently bitcoin has been used for legal purposes. but I think it is very reasonable, because the transaction very quickly from bitcoin and anonymous transactions, making it supports illegal transactions
legendary
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i heard many illegal activities used bitcoin in deepweeb
but i think it will rise bitcoin in the future
many ppl used it so many ppl will look for it
yeah I think it is true that the news that there are many users who use bitcoin for illegal activities, even gambling also is illegal, because the bitcoin system are anonymous, this makes the user more comfortable using bitcoin for illegal activities
The legality of gambling depends from country to country so its impossible to generalize, in the subject of drugs the laws of the countries a re a lot closer to each other so you could draw some generalized arguments but even that is changing.
The issue I think people have with gambling is that the governments everywhere must get their cut.  If they do not, then they decide to make it illegal.  Just like alcohol and marijuana in the USA.  It is illegal because the government could not get their cut at first. 
It's not an issue for us here living in the crypto world as bitcoin is anonymous and they cannot control it. It's the only pleasure we have here that we can use our bitcoin at any activity we want, may it be illegal or not. Time will come maybe but the govern will be having a hard time to tax bitcoin.
hero member
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i heard many illegal activities used bitcoin in deepweeb
but i think it will rise bitcoin in the future
many ppl used it so many ppl will look for it
yeah I think it is true that the news that there are many users who use bitcoin for illegal activities, even gambling also is illegal, because the bitcoin system are anonymous, this makes the user more comfortable using bitcoin for illegal activities
The legality of gambling depends from country to country so its impossible to generalize, in the subject of drugs the laws of the countries a re a lot closer to each other so you could draw some generalized arguments but even that is changing.
The issue I think people have with gambling is that the governments everywhere must get their cut.  If they do not, then they decide to make it illegal.  Just like alcohol and marijuana in the USA.  It is illegal because the government could not get their cut at first. 
Gambling is not illegal this is give entertainment to those people who have lots of money they do not ever know where they put their money that is why they do gambling. Bitcoin is can be used in illegal but this is depend on the users.
full member
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i heard many illegal activities used bitcoin in deepweeb
but i think it will rise bitcoin in the future
many ppl used it so many ppl will look for it
yeah I think it is true that the news that there are many users who use bitcoin for illegal activities, even gambling also is illegal, because the bitcoin system are anonymous, this makes the user more comfortable using bitcoin for illegal activities
The legality of gambling depends from country to country so its impossible to generalize, in the subject of drugs the laws of the countries a re a lot closer to each other so you could draw some generalized arguments but even that is changing.
The issue I think people have with gambling is that the governments everywhere must get their cut.  If they do not, then they decide to make it illegal.  Just like alcohol and marijuana in the USA.  It is illegal because the government could not get their cut at first. 
legendary
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We do not have contract in bitcoin there is no information to trace all the transaction in bitcoin that is why bitcoin can be used in illegal activities and it is depending on the users.
Actually we can see all the transactions going on in the blockchain network. If you do know the bitcoin address of somebody, you can see all of his transactions history from the start. That's the beauty of digital transactions, everything can easily be traced if you know how to and to whom does those address belongs to. It's all about connecting all the available information. On the other hand, it's also easy to mask your identity online.

We can trace anyone that works into dark marketplaces, but the thing is they can use a single adress for each transaction, in fact i do believe they work that way, otherwise they would be easy found, bitcoin its money soo it will be used for legal and ilegal stuffs, no way to prevent those.
I think they would be clever than that. They will make multi address to avoid being found easily and they might use different wallets also from different websites paying with a little amount to avoid being questioned or the need to give information.
You can use a many addresses as you want but if all you are doing is sending the coins from one wallet to another it won't be too hard to track you down. To be a little more confident that your transactions are not being traced you will have to send your coins through a bitcoin mixer.

Yes bitcoin transaction is not that anonymous, addresses used and its transaction can be traced. So there are some services that enables you to make tracing the addresses use  more difficult thru mixer services.  But I read somewhere that this services advertisement are just exaggerated since it is not that difficult to trace even with those mixing procedures.  I wonder if that statement is true.
legendary
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We do not have contract in bitcoin there is no information to trace all the transaction in bitcoin that is why bitcoin can be used in illegal activities and it is depending on the users.
Actually we can see all the transactions going on in the blockchain network. If you do know the bitcoin address of somebody, you can see all of his transactions history from the start. That's the beauty of digital transactions, everything can easily be traced if you know how to and to whom does those address belongs to. It's all about connecting all the available information. On the other hand, it's also easy to mask your identity online.

We can trace anyone that works into dark marketplaces, but the thing is they can use a single adress for each transaction, in fact i do believe they work that way, otherwise they would be easy found, bitcoin its money soo it will be used for legal and ilegal stuffs, no way to prevent those.
I think they would be clever than that. They will make multi address to avoid being found easily and they might use different wallets also from different websites paying with a little amount to avoid being questioned or the need to give information.
You can use a many addresses as you want but if all you are doing is sending the coins from one wallet to another it won't be too hard to track you down. To be a little more confident that your transactions are not being traced you will have to send your coins through a bitcoin mixer.
hero member
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We do not have contract in bitcoin there is no information to trace all the transaction in bitcoin that is why bitcoin can be used in illegal activities and it is depending on the users.
Actually we can see all the transactions going on in the blockchain network. If you do know the bitcoin address of somebody, you can see all of his transactions history from the start. That's the beauty of digital transactions, everything can easily be traced if you know how to and to whom does those address belongs to. It's all about connecting all the available information. On the other hand, it's also easy to mask your identity online.

We can trace anyone that works into dark marketplaces, but the thing is they can use a single adress for each transaction, in fact i do believe they work that way, otherwise they would be easy found, bitcoin its money soo it will be used for legal and ilegal stuffs, no way to prevent those.
Well, using a single address for each transaction should be common practice and not only practiced by such people besides they are probably also tumbling their coins and using the Tor network, different wallets, different places to access the Internet and even different computers.
I do believe the most of you didnt read my post at all, i said they should use one single adress for each transaction. If they were to use just one single account it would be some exchange wallet, where they can get paid and send the coins to whatever they wanna.
sr. member
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Yes it is indeed being used for illegal activities. The main reason? Provides no way to trace the person apparently. Yet, it is even easier to find some Bitcoin criminal than someone selling drugs and receiving notes.
yeah people know that using bitcoin then people will not know the intent of your transaction, then it is very likely that bitcoin is used for illegal activities
hero member
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We do not have contract in bitcoin there is no information to trace all the transaction in bitcoin that is why bitcoin can be used in illegal activities and it is depending on the users.
Actually we can see all the transactions going on in the blockchain network. If you do know the bitcoin address of somebody, you can see all of his transactions history from the start. That's the beauty of digital transactions, everything can easily be traced if you know how to and to whom does those address belongs to. It's all about connecting all the available information. On the other hand, it's also easy to mask your identity online.

We can trace anyone that works into dark marketplaces, but the thing is they can use a single adress for each transaction, in fact i do believe they work that way, otherwise they would be easy found, bitcoin its money soo it will be used for legal and ilegal stuffs, no way to prevent those.
Well, using a single address for each transaction should be common practice and not only practiced by such people besides they are probably also tumbling their coins and using the Tor network, different wallets, different places to access the Internet and even different computers.
hero member
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Yes it is indeed being used for illegal activities. The main reason? Provides no way to trace the person apparently. Yet, it is even easier to find some Bitcoin criminal than someone selling drugs and receiving notes.
How can they be easier to find? Heck criminals of Bitcoin are harder to find then real criminals, why? Because they do their felonies online, it is easy for them to create a new website in minutes claiming their company is real, with new emails they can create new Bitcoin addresses in which they can transfer what they stole and make it more untraceable.
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Yes it is indeed being used for illegal activities. The main reason? Provides no way to trace the person apparently. Yet, it is even easier to find some Bitcoin criminal than someone selling drugs and receiving notes.
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We do not have contract in bitcoin there is no information to trace all the transaction in bitcoin that is why bitcoin can be used in illegal activities and it is depending on the users.
Actually we can see all the transactions going on in the blockchain network. If you do know the bitcoin address of somebody, you can see all of his transactions history from the start. That's the beauty of digital transactions, everything can easily be traced if you know how to and to whom does those address belongs to. It's all about connecting all the available information. On the other hand, it's also easy to mask your identity online.

We can trace anyone that works into dark marketplaces, but the thing is they can use a single adress for each transaction, in fact i do believe they work that way, otherwise they would be easy found, bitcoin its money soo it will be used for legal and ilegal stuffs, no way to prevent those.
I think they would be clever than that. They will make multi address to avoid being found easily and they might use different wallets also from different websites paying with a little amount to avoid being questioned or the need to give information.
If you are  a  pro  scammer  and  a hacker you would  surely do things that  anyone couldnt able to  trace you  up, as you said  they could  able to use  multiple addresses  in able hard to  trace  or  use  coin  mixers ,with these things   you cannot   trace  them easily  thats   why   bitcoin  is  being  used on  illegal activities and  we  cant really stop that.
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