Topic: Is bribing via bitcoin a good idea? - page 7. (Read 96898 times)

no, this is crazy. why would you want to use Bitcoin to bribery. You are not a pure man. This is a bad idea, the money should be used reasonably and legally. you are not allowed to use it for your offense. this is a moral misconduct, Bitcoin is a clean coin, if you take advantage of it to do it, Bitcoin will be affected, the reputation of Bitcoin would be libelous. I advise you not to do it

Seems like many of you are focusing on the whole bribes are bad thing and also that Bitcoin is not anonymous. I want to get a bit more technical. But first let me say, yes bribes a bad, but bad things happen on this world. I do not recommend it. Secondly if you want to stay anonymous, then buying anonymous and mixing the coins a couple of times before the bribe should be good enough in most cases.
What i do not get is the USB part. I just assume this has to be done in person, since it would be much safer to just send the keys per mail/email/text massage (of course encrypted). But even when meeting face to face, i see no need for the USB. The other party will have to make sure they get the money, so they will have to sweep the address provided by you. This is so you can not just have a copy of the keys and immediately "double spend" (technically it is not a double spend, if two persons have the key and one just spends them quicker then the other) before they can spend the coins. So there will have to be some kind of internet connection anyway, why not just use a paper wallet (you could swallow the evidence if the situations changes) then or do it with a wallet on your phone. For safety reasons it is not smart to use an unknown stick. The potential of malware, spyware and what not are just to big to take.

If you do this and if you got caught. This will be a sensationalized news for the bitcoin community. And this will have a negative impact to us. And if this ever happen, bitcoin will have a difficult to be adopted by many people.

Bitcoin is not anonymous at all.. u got pseudonyms on the blockchain.. its pseudonymous..
But with a good Bitcoin Mixer you get near to fully anonymous.
I think bribing with BTC is more useful, safer and easier than with Fiat

Let us use an example for those officials had been caught in the act using illegal drugs. What happens next? They will bribe to not be in jail. So, bribing is not a good idea anyway. They use it to bad intentions to cover up of one's fault. Bitcoin couldn't control by anybody so utilize our bitcoin in a good way.

I would say you actually have a greater chance of getting caught, since the person will probably try to convert the Bitcoin to fiat at some point.
If they are under suspicion of anything, anyone watching them may catch them trying to cash out their coins.
Paper currency is much easier to hide as long as you don't try to put it into a bank account or something like that.

Yes, from the aspects of privacy and escaping investigation from anti corruption authorities, it is a good idea. But it shouldn't be promoted and will destroy the purpose of Bitcoin. Otherwise it will give the Chinese authorities another reasons to talk to the Bitcoin exchanges and cause the fluctuations of price.

It's too hard to quickly verify for the bribee.

it is action that is not commendable. bitcoin created to make our financial life for the better. rather than as a tool for negative actions.
I suggest to use bitcoin only for positive activities.

Sometimes, (especially in third world countries), you need to give people bribes to make them do their job. It is a social evil, but it exists.
Bitcoin will just make it harder for those people to get outed. 

I agree. if some of bitcoin users bribe then bitcoil will be more well-known as illegal currency or criminals' currency because many users use it to do criminal things or bad things. even you can bribe and no one knows, (remember God always knows), it's still not a good thing. so just do not do bad thing using bitcoin for some time.

What makes you think "bribing via bitcoin" could be a good idea a priori? I think it's a bad idea. Bribing is not a nice thing to do or to be involved in -- not at all. Could you go into more detail regarding the "one USB stick"?

it is a good idea if you insist on bribing because theres no evidence that can link it to you as long as you dont put any real information to your transaction but I think theres just a small bad people who uses bitcoin mostly on 3rd world countries they dont see any value on bitcoin unless they are a techy guy that knows what bitcoin is.

Why would any one need to give a bribe in the first instance if you didnt even engage in something of illegal ends. And even if that is the case, I want to believe that the person who is to collect the bribe will be the one to determine the currency of acceptance and if he or she has agreed to collect bitcoin then I dont see any problem since it is money and even if it is fiat, he will still collect.

Bribing itself is not a good idea, by any means. Though its secure as no name is involved while transacting, but it might give Bitcoin a bad name.
And in many countries Bitcoin is not so popular, even some on takes bribe, it will be difficult for him to cash it to spend it.

While I would never recommend bribing anyone and in most countries that's illegal, the concept is ok however it is incredibly unlikely it would work since there is no visible value on a USB drive that can be checked, unlike what happens with cash. The only way a system like that would work would be to have it organized in advance.

Thats not good at all. There are many people have some mistake in their thought about bitcoin. If they just read from a small piece of review about bitcoin and they consider that bitcoin is just a digital coin which allow people trade with bad purpose like drug dealer, man,... and now, one more time, you've confirmed that rumour is true when asking that is a good idea if people bribe via bitcoin. I don't say that you want use bitcoin to bribe but if you think about that, meaning many people also think about that too... So who know, some people will do that or even that is happening.

No one can stop you if you decide to use btc to bribe someone but just to remind you, if the person you bribe with just don't do what you want him to do, you still lose your btc. Whatever you want him to do just do it legally, if you have to fall in line up to a hundred, just do it.

This is somewhat like extortion still so its not as a good as what it seem like even if you are the victim. If you make transaction to bad cops, then surely you already know they are bad. Bribing them doesn't make them good cops.

Bitcoin would not be a good choice of payment if it came to bribing because if any anybody found out about this transaction they can easy give proof that this actually transpired and can not be written off the network.

The activities of bribery could not be justified, with money, property, food or bitcoin all breaking the law. Let use bitcoin for better things and positive. If a lot of offense with bitcoin can then give rise to concern many people.