Quote from: BillyBobZorton on June 05, 2015, 06:40:31 PM

It's quite funny, because I remember saying an article like this back in 2012, where BTC got linked to paedos, drug dealers and other criminals, which made me totally ignore it as something not good.
Thanks to that FUD article, I lost the chance of being a millionaire a year later, but thanks to that article, im here today ahead of a lot of other people, with a couple BTC under my belt, ready for the revolution to take over the world in the next decade.

OP has started sharing these articles for the sake of spreading fear. This won't benefit anyone, not Bitcoin or his beloved Goldcoin. He should stop.

What did people think was happening? Banks suddenly getting incoming transactions valued at thousands and even millions of dollars and that nobody was going to ask where it came from?
Let's get back to reality.

Quote from: bryant.coleman on June 07, 2015, 08:33:46 AM

How can cash be anonymous, and Bitcoin not so? If I am using a proxy server or a VPN or other anonymization services such as the I2P browser, how can someone find out my real IP address? And if I am using a one-time Bitcoin address, created just for a single Bitcoin transaction, I don't think anyone will be able to trace me using it.

That's the main thing here. If you pick the wrong proxy/VPN and you do something illegal you're done for. We've had several reports of VPN's giving data to governments in the past.
Finding a VPN that is secure (strong encryption), reliable and one that keeps no logs isn't as easy as it seems.