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Quote from: cambda on May 24, 2016, 08:43:55 AM

Anyone who say bitcoin is used to illegal activities should tell that there were no illegal activities before bitcoin was launched?
Its all depends on user how to plan to use it but a specific payment system isn't made to use for illegal activities,many people use cash and many other payment systems for illegal activities.

Agree. It's just that all kinds of money source are options for illegal activities. Because of being a quite anonymoust in bitcoin, some person take this advantage to use it in their illegal activities. If I will do an illegal activity of course I will open and learn all my options to send and receive money to take care of my security.

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Money is used to illegal activities. Does anybody stoped using money because of that?
the reason the government doesnt like bitcoin isnt that. Terrorist, drug dealers etc etc will always find a way to been paid without trace.

The reason is simple, government controls fiat. they are the only one holding the plates to make more and bitcoin isnt hold by anyone(theorecally) and that makes hard to control a few things like inflation.

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Quote from: ElpadroBitcoin on May 24, 2016, 05:03:58 AM

I think so, the fact that you can make use of Bitcoin without people getting behind your information is of course ideal for cyber criminals. So the answer is yes Bitcoin is sometimes being used for illegal activities.

You are right about that its getting used by criminals but its logical and which currency is not used by criminals right ?
I think its not gonna be a real problem in the future.

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Quote from: bamboylee on March 29, 2016, 10:13:01 PM

Bitcoin's nature allow itself to be used in any illegal activities you can think of. But it is also true in fiat but the government does not ban the use of fiat. Bitcoin will continue to survive because it is a currency useful to us and many more.

That's right..bitcoin and fiat are both use in illegal activity, the only difference is that fiat is under the control of the governments and banks while bitcoin is not..That difference I think government will surely give protection to fiat than bitcoin...

Yes, they will try their most to make sure fiat is protected and not used in illegal activities or counterfeited. But they could ban bitcoin from being used because they have no benefits from bitcoin.

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i have heard that bitcoin was used to support terrorists. so many dangerous activities that bitcoin can be used for, and we all can imagine why.

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Quote from: saladin7000 on May 24, 2016, 08:40:43 AM

I dont know if bitcoin created for that purpose or not but many illegal activities or illegal transaction choose bitcoin because it anonymity

What is illegal? Who makes law? Lawmakers are rich folks, they can change laws whatever they want.
You can use Bitcoin everywhere, nobody can limit that. That's why these rich folks are afraid of Bitcoin. They are too scared that they try to limit Bitcoin userbase. Bitcoin is internet money and nothing is illegal in internet. They can't stop us.

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Anyone who say bitcoin is used to illegal activities should tell that there were no illegal activities before bitcoin was launched?
Its all depends on user how to plan to use it but a specific payment system isn't made to use for illegal activities,many people use cash and many other payment systems for illegal activities.

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I dont know if bitcoin created for that purpose or not but many illegal activities or illegal transaction choose bitcoin because it anonymity

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Gambling is illegal in my country and majority of people use bitcoin only for gambling purposes, so yes it is used for illegal activities.

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No drugs r being used to temp people to part with their coin

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Quote from: 23dzmaz on May 23, 2016, 08:44:02 PM

I think yes, but we never know it because their transaction is really secret. I think the illegal activites only for 1-5 transaction. it's make us hard to detect it.

we don't know whether someone using bitcoin to buy drugs or other illegal activity. because we do not know the transaction has a purpose for what? because there is no control of this makes bitcoin is great to use as currency for criminal or illegal activity

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Quote from: bitcoin110011 on February 06, 2016, 07:11:09 AM

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 guess it depends on who uses bitcoin. I personally use bitcoin only for positive activities, and only some people using bitcoin for illegal activities. And the government will not remove bitcoin, Because bitcoin is decentralized. hehe
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Quote from: ElpadroBitcoin on May 24, 2016, 05:03:58 AM

I think so, the fact that you can make use of Bitcoin without people getting behind your information is of course ideal for cyber criminals. So the answer is yes Bitcoin is sometimes being used for illegal activities.

I hope that the usage of Bitcoin for illegal activities won't affect the adoption of this cryptocurrency. If it will then there will be no logic in this. Money, gold, knives and even simple cars are being used for illegal activities for many years and still we are using all of those things in everyday life.

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I think so, the fact that you can make use of Bitcoin without people getting behind your information is of course ideal for cyber criminals. So the answer is yes Bitcoin is sometimes being used for illegal activities.

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Quote from: ethereumhunter on May 24, 2016, 03:09:04 AM

I think bitcoin will still famous even if there are many people who use for illegal purchasing goods.

yeah agree with you although bitcoin used for illegal activities that will not make the image bitcoin be ugly and abandoned by many users. bitcoin increasingly popular precisely because many media who preach bitcoin poorly

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I think bitcoin will still famous even if there are many people who use for illegal purchasing goods.

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Yes. There was actually one incident, if you know silk road, who sell illegal drugs using bitcoin. The government find them and they were actually put into jail. Even though how private bitcoin is, still, the government has ways to look after these bad guys. Even today, we might not know or have learned about them but there are several of them.

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Quote from: Yipdard on May 23, 2016, 04:53:03 PM

They use bitcoin for illegal activities because it is not a physical currency.

yeah because it's not physical form that makes it easier bitcoin being misused. using digital money is easier to use and sent to anywhere This will make it easier to carry out illegal activities let alone the nature of the anonymous bitcoin. This makes a lot of people interested in using bitcoin for illegal activities

Of course Bitcoin is used by illegal activities and that is because you can easily use Bitcoin as a payment method and that is nice for the currency.
But it is also bad but we cant know what will happen with the value of Bitcoin and that is bad.

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Quote from: Cybertron00 on May 23, 2016, 05:48:43 PM

Bitcoin is can bo use both on legal and illegal things.Common peoples commonly use bitcoins for legal things such as business and extra income.But there are people that is using bitcoins on illegal things such as buying drugs online,weapons,and other illegal things specially on deep web.They abuse it because of it's anonymous transaction that they will benefit in.

Yup it can use it in illegal and legal transaction its up to the owner if they use it in illegal or legal transaction. Like me and my friend im using it in legal way i earn here in legal way. My friend earn in illegal way in deepweb he transact to other users and earn bitcoin. But if you use bitcoin in illegal transactio you have a chance that you will go to jail.

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Quote from: Yipdard on May 23, 2016, 04:53:03 PM

They use bitcoin for illegal activities because it is not a physical currency.

More over they use bitcoin because its of anonymity and its not easy to tracked. even if they say its not anonymous, it really is. its not easy to trace and if authorities can't link accounts then authorities can no longer pursue. why do you think people are are still extorting each other?

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