LOL… I’m surprised how most of you all has turned to call Bitcoin a money laundering tool. To be sincere, when I got into Bitcoin I never had money laundering in mind, I was just looking for a quick, easy and cheapest way to transact money. Apart from that, there are lots of uses for it.
Bitcoin is can be used for both good and bad, depends on who you are and the path you have chosen. One thing for sure that there will always be the bad eggs in the community. There are good people making use of Bitcoin for the good and there are also criminals and bad people using Bitcoin to carry out their evil plans. We all should only hope for the good, anyone in his right senses wouldn’t support evil.
People are ignorant! Banks are money laundering companies, they operate for centuries, they finance wars, wash money from selling drugs, weapons, food, and everything in the countries where is war. But people thinks its easier to call bitcoin money laundering tool then to learn something about traditional system and how it works, some basics, nothing more.
I would like to ask people what they think how they launder money before 2010? Simple question that require simple answer.
The method of money laundering was developed by famous American criminal Al Kapone. He received money from gambling, prostitution and sales of alcohol, during a ban in America in the 1920s, portraying him as an income from his automatic laundry. Namely, one of his business ventures was a company in which the citizens in the machines washed and dried their laundry with coins. He displayed illegally acquired money as income derived from coins embroidered in washing machines in which citizens were washing their laundry. He paid taxes on that income, and the money flowed into legal currents - he was "washed". However, the system has been compelled by bookkeeper Meyer Lansky to allow his friend and employer, again a criminal, Bugsy Siegel to legally gain wealth. Simple method, clean money.