Quote from: justbitcoins on November 09, 2015, 03:36:20 PM

Quote from: Skinnyman on November 09, 2015, 02:47:20 PM

to be honest this type of thing is good and bad news for bitcoin. Whether we like it or not criminals are going to now move over to bitcoin bit criminals are still users of bitcoin, though obviously the general public will see this as a bad thing and it might scare them off. Still publicity at the end of the day.

When bitcoin is used as ransom, it is bad publicity. But people still see the report, so it make more people aware of the existence of bitcoin. It is an advertisement for bitcoin.

in this case bad publicity is not good. Bitcoin adoption requires people to trust the system rather than just know about it. these sort of news would hurt the trust in Bitcoin (shallow understanding of it) people will associate Bitcoin with these sort of events. recently read somewhere that Isis has a wallet with few million usd worth of bitcoins?