Quote from: bitcoinst on Today at 04:51:14 PM

At least 870,000 bitcoins are associated with illegal activities. This is about $ 10 billion.

These are all confirmed? I wonder how this site gathers the data to that they really know that the Bitcoin is used in relation to criminals. This is not a small amount of Bitcoin. but compared to the whole supply of BTC, it may be only several percentages. however, it will also influence the market flows if it hits the market. But, the questions are:
1. Does anybody know where are now those Bitcoins? Only hold in their wallet? on the Bitcoin mixers? Or already traded in the market?
2. If it is still kept on their wallet, will they open it and trade it on the market at the same time? I think no because they are different networking and they may have different stages or ways to spend the BTC.
3. DO they always influence the market if they spend the BTC on the market? I think that they may not have a big influence on the market because they are small compared to the whole supply of the BTC. Moreover, the circulating supply of BTC so far is around 18,445,150 BTC. I think that they will also not trade it at the same market to make a big difference.
Well, this is only my opinion because those criminals are not correlated at all. they have different networking. We also do not know whether they have been trading those amounts or not. So, never be panic about this, but stay calm and also watch out.