i heard many illegal activities used bitcoin in deepweeb
but i think it will rise bitcoin in the future
many ppl used it so many ppl will look for it
yeah I think it is true that the news that there are many users who use bitcoin for illegal activities, even gambling also is illegal, because the bitcoin system are anonymous, this makes the user more comfortable using bitcoin for illegal activities
I have saw only a few places where it was used as illegal and on a lot of places it is used for good and gambling is illegal in some places not in all countries so in those countries where gambling is legal we cannot say that people are doing illegal with bitcoin.
even china bans banks from using bitcoin only, not other than that in china. the places used as illegal is few just like Indonesia IIRC. nobody can intuitively state if people is using bitcoin illegally unless what anyone own was exposed to be illegal, to do that, you might even have to decrypt their data they have / had encrypted. in US i guess that bitcoin is taxable, but i don't really rich in that law since i am not in the US.