Quote from: krishnapramod on February 17, 2018, 06:33:38 AM

Quote from: barneystinson on February 17, 2018, 04:55:25 AM

Quote from: Kakmakr on February 16, 2018, 05:50:19 AM

Over the years, our enemies has used all sorts of labels to categorize Bitcoin users. We were labelled as Drug addicts and Drug lords or a bunch of Paedophiles exchanging Bitcoin in Dark markets for child porn and Money launderers and tax evaders, but it turned out that we are no different than any other person using any other payment network.

I have no doubt, that a small amount of people in this community could be involved in these activities, but when they paint a scarlet letter on a whole community, based on the small amount of people that are doing this, they should turn the mirror on themselves and do a bit of introspection.

We should not allow these people to ostracize us for the actions of a small group of people that are using this technology for criminal activities. It is time for the Bitcoin community to stand up for their rights as law abiding citizens and to educate these fools, with facts.

Show the world that Bitcoin is used more for legal business than illegal transactions in Dark markets.

It is sad to hear that there have been instances that bitcoin has been used in stupid and illegal things what you have said. This wasn't the goal of the developers when they came up with the idea of bitcoin in the first place. These kinds of news and instances just proves the doubters and causes some interested people not to jump into bitcoin. This is the sad fall back of decentralized currency. Since no identities are provided in the wallets it can be used in such transactions.

The goal was quite simple, create something that can be used by anyone, anywhere, anytime, be it for legal or illegal purposes and this is where the value of Bitcoin lies. A person indulging in anything illegal would use whatever is convenient for them, be it Bitcoin, cash, credit cards or other methods. There is no blame game, criminalizing, banning when anything apart from Bitcoin/cryptos are used for illegal activities, the whole Bitcoin as a currency used by criminals is a fallacious argument.

Yes, waited for someone to point that out. It is not the tool, but rather the person using the tool that are guilty. Imagine if the media blamed everyone using guns, because one crazy kid walked into a school and killed 17 people.

It was not the gun, commiting the crime, it was the crazy kid. Weapons are also used to protect people from crazy people like this. People use guns to hunt and competitive Sport shooting, so there are loads of examples where things are used for both Good and Bad things. This is 100% the same for Bitcoin.