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legendary
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No doubt it is being used for many illegal actions. They can freely just send money without being traced. Could also pay up with little by little to avoid being monitored. They wony need bags and travel it to their trading place which will be risky.
hero member
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bitcoin is can be used for illegal doings as long it has value its still money. It can buy destructive arms and can pay for hoodlums to do bad things.

Since it is still good as fiat,it depends on holder whether he sued it for good or for illegal.

This is also one of the reason why some countries or states are proposing to regulate bitcoin or other digital/cryptocurrencies,that is - to curb the illegal activities online.By regulating,it also like they are going to control on this currencies and possible anonymous transaction could be not possible anymore.
hero member
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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

Majority of the member in this industry I know they used their bitcoin for legal purposes including myself of course. Even others are doing something which is not good whether they used it for illegal matters it is their free will to decide what there gonna do to their bitcoin.

BItcoin is a tool and can be used both ways, legal or illegal. Just like a gun, it can be used to protect people and can also be used to kill people. The government should not ban bitcoin because it is being used illegally. What they should do is to provide laws that will prevent people using bitcoin for bad things without compromising the good things bitcoin can do.
legendary
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There is more chance of using bitcoin for illegal activities because it's pseudonymous and no one can know who is sending money to whom. I had heard that people are taking more about bitcoin in dark net. Probably people will definitely use bitcoin for doing anonymous activity
yes mate i heard that too, here in my country since btc is not that popular yet those drug dealer taking the advantage of it, but suddenly they been caught by our local police because the transaction that they made has been trace using the local exchange.
Dealers using exchanges to convert or mix their coins aren't that smart as exchanges keep every IP and transaction log for ever.

All this information can be used against you, and linked to you in case you have verified your ID in order to make use of that specific exchange.

There are plenty of ways to get your coins converted back and forth without using exchanges, but probably they weren't aware of it. Dumb people.
legendary
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There is more chance of using bitcoin for illegal activities because it's pseudonymous and no one can know who is sending money to whom. I had heard that people are taking more about bitcoin in dark net. Probably people will definitely use bitcoin for doing anonymous activity
yes mate i heard that too, here in my country since btc is not that popular yet those drug dealer taking the advantage of it, but suddenly they been caught by our local police because the transaction that they made has been trace using the local exchange.
Definitely it would be change, and our government are very strict now and in my country as well, we are already required to comply by putting our personal information in our accounts for KYC purposes and you cannot transact if you will not comply.
hero member
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There is more chance of using bitcoin for illegal activities because it's pseudonymous and no one can know who is sending money to whom. I had heard that people are taking more about bitcoin in dark net. Probably people will definitely use bitcoin for doing anonymous activity
yes mate i heard that too, here in my country since btc is not that popular yet those drug dealer taking the advantage of it, but suddenly they been caught by our local police because the transaction that they made has been trace using the local exchange.
hero member
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Of course bitcoin is being used for illegal activities
Since the government has no Access to the transactions have been processed for these activities through bitcoins.
Also i have seen some deep market websites which accepts bitcoins for selling drugs and Stolen Stuffs.

Bitcoin for transactions to distributed drugs, that is very mostly serious problem. You are absolutely right, because bitcoin is anonymously and it transactions also anonym. No one knows the real people that makes a transaction in bitcoin.
The other illegal activities in my region is playing Gambling with bitcoin as well. In my region playing Gambling or games related with that is illegal, moreover that illegal activities most found in internets, online gambling.
hero member
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Of course bitcoin is being used for illegal activities
Since the government has no Access to the transactions have been processed for these activities through bitcoins.
Also i have seen some deep market websites which accepts bitcoins for selling drugs and Stolen Stuffs.
full member
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There is more chance of using bitcoin for illegal activities because it's pseudonymous and no one can know who is sending money to whom. I had heard that people are taking more about bitcoin in dark net. Probably people will definitely use bitcoin for doing anonymous activity
hero member
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Yes it is used for criminal activities but that is not a bad thing at all because its logical that it happens these days.
Bitcoin is used for this a lot but we cannot do anything about it too so why not.
Authorities should make their job to capture the criminals but not to stop bitcoin, any currency can be use for illegal activities and even fiat. In overall this would help the market of bitcoin to grow and anyone will be beneficial in using bitcoin.
full member
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Yes it is used for criminal activities but that is not a bad thing at all because its logical that it happens these days.
Bitcoin is used for this a lot but we cannot do anything about it too so why not.
member
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bitcoin is can be used for illegal doings as long it has value its still money. It can buy destructive arms and can pay for hoodlums to do bad things.
hero member
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No. We've heard this thing a lot of times on the news channels but it's not true. It is used for illegal activities just like USD and EUR is being used. It's not such a big difference between the two, except the fact that people would obviously prefer doing these kinds of transactions through anonymous methods than through cash.
yeah true what you say that this is not much different from what they are doing well with the fiat as USD or GBP, and so forth, this is a usual phenomenon and we will not be able to stop them for that, because basically everyone has the freedom to using money or their bitcoin
I disagree a little bit it’s not the same the amount of trades related to criminal activity is very low compared to the amount of deals done in fiat and the corruption that goes along with it.
You mean there are more illegal activities with bitcoins than USD and others ? If so you are wrong friend, because see bitcoins first of all I hope and believe not known to illegal and wrong people. While with USD almost 90% of the world is aware and hence obviously more crime and illegal will happen with USD than with BTC.
hero member
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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
Bitcoins are not used for illegal activities and if you call gambling a illegal activity, since its banned in some countries then well, I am sorry but your thinking is stubborn and hilarious. because come on, how can you stop someone from having fun with his money the way he wants. Apart from that, I do not think BTC are being used anywhere illegally.
hero member
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No. We've heard this thing a lot of times on the news channels but it's not true. It is used for illegal activities just like USD and EUR is being used. It's not such a big difference between the two, except the fact that people would obviously prefer doing these kinds of transactions through anonymous methods than through cash.
yeah true what you say that this is not much different from what they are doing well with the fiat as USD or GBP, and so forth, this is a usual phenomenon and we will not be able to stop them for that, because basically everyone has the freedom to using money or their bitcoin
I disagree a little bit it’s not the same the amount of trades related to criminal activity is very low compared to the amount of deals done in fiat and the corruption that goes along with it.

The problem is if the countries could stop those marketplaces the police wouldnt be needed, soo the governement couldnt steal money saying thats for our security, and in fact they cant take all criminals into the jail, no space. Since the begining media tryed to kill bitcoin saying its connected to silk road, soo we the honest people they didnt said nothing about, bitcoin wont die now and might last forever, as long the interest keeps into it.
Well, the media is obviously in the bed with the government, so they are trying to destroy bitcoin because bitcoin has allowed people to do transaction with money that is not issued by any government in the world.
sr. member
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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
To keep it real I do think that bitcoin is being used for some illegal things online but I do not really care about that because I am making use of bitcoin for my self.
I am not here to play police man and keep track of those things, there is nothing you can do about it.
hero member
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No. We've heard this thing a lot of times on the news channels but it's not true. It is used for illegal activities just like USD and EUR is being used. It's not such a big difference between the two, except the fact that people would obviously prefer doing these kinds of transactions through anonymous methods than through cash.
yeah true what you say that this is not much different from what they are doing well with the fiat as USD or GBP, and so forth, this is a usual phenomenon and we will not be able to stop them for that, because basically everyone has the freedom to using money or their bitcoin
I disagree a little bit it’s not the same the amount of trades related to criminal activity is very low compared to the amount of deals done in fiat and the corruption that goes along with it.

The problem is if the countries could stop those marketplaces the police wouldnt be needed, soo the governement couldnt steal money saying thats for our security, and in fact they cant take all criminals into the jail, no space. Since the begining media tryed to kill bitcoin saying its connected to silk road, soo we the honest people they didnt said nothing about, bitcoin wont die now and might last forever, as long the interest keeps into it.
hero member
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I am terrible at Fantasy Football!!!
No. We've heard this thing a lot of times on the news channels but it's not true. It is used for illegal activities just like USD and EUR is being used. It's not such a big difference between the two, except the fact that people would obviously prefer doing these kinds of transactions through anonymous methods than through cash.
yeah true what you say that this is not much different from what they are doing well with the fiat as USD or GBP, and so forth, this is a usual phenomenon and we will not be able to stop them for that, because basically everyone has the freedom to using money or their bitcoin
I disagree a little bit it’s not the same the amount of trades related to criminal activity is very low compared to the amount of deals done in fiat and the corruption that goes along with it.
hero member
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No. We've heard this thing a lot of times on the news channels but it's not true. It is used for illegal activities just like USD and EUR is being used. It's not such a big difference between the two, except the fact that people would obviously prefer doing these kinds of transactions through anonymous methods than through cash.
yeah true what you say that this is not much different from what they are doing well with the fiat as USD or GBP, and so forth, this is a usual phenomenon and we will not be able to stop them for that, because basically everyone has the freedom to using money or their bitcoin
legendary
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Of course it is, just like every other currency.
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