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.
Of course it was. In any great, new system, the initial stages are always filled with "black/dark" usage. Read: the internet, cryptocurrencies, humanity