yes its true on current time deepweb is using all the payments on bitcoin or i should say mostly on bitcoin and also seen some old wallet sites have moved to deepweb and i really hate those sites because they charge 0.001btc transaction fees.

general rules is when we make money from something, we should pays tax, and in bitcoin, we don't have to pay any tax and because of this, i am sure that for somehow bitcoin is being used for illegal activities but i don't know what kind of that activities and i don't want to think too much about that. as long as i am play safe with bitcoin, then i think i will be fine.

Bitcoin is  really being used on   illegal transactions because of its  anonymity  features and  its really normal that  people would really tend  to use  it  on illegal stuffs because   authorities would really have a  hard time to trace them  up regarding  on their  activities. This is  somehow  the  disadvantage  of  anonymity  but   it really depends  on  the  user  on  how  he  gonna  use   bitcoin for any  purposes. This also gives  negative  image to bitcoin also.

Bitcoin is definitely being used for illegal activities, but hey, united states dollars and great britain pounds are also being used for illegal activites! And they are currency produced by the government. So are you going to blame the government for facilitating these illegal trades because they are printing the currency? Definitely not!

I don't know any off the top of my head, but I'm fairly sure someone has to be using it for illegal activities. I'm guessing maybe selling narcotics online so you don't have to deal with the cash in person?

Everything with value such as oil, Gold, diamonds, paintings, drugs, weapons, etc, can function as a currency to finanace terrorism for example. What bothers me is that always when something minor happens with Bitcoin as point of attention (like a hacker asking for 10BTC ransom for example), the whole media seems to jump on it to show the outside world how bad and dangerous an internet currency as Bitcoin is.

There are even times where the media is referring to Bitcoin as being the currency of the underworld. It just shows that they have an anti Bitcoin campaign running either sponsored by the government, or they are owned by the very elite that do depend on the current banking system. Nothing happens without a reason.

I agree that we can't blame people who are ignorant of bitcoin.  But we can explain to them the fallacies about bitcoins to make them understand bitcoin more and in order for them to have a change in heart of thinking is bitcoin is for illegal activities only.  Even with lots of legit merchants using bitcoin, illegal activities that use bitcoin as currency still exist.  The same thing illegal activities that uses fiat currency exist.

We actually can blame people for thinking like how they are doing right now. Especially in the case of them so easily taking everything the media says for granted. It doesn't cost a lot effort to do some research yourself in order to know what Bitcoin is, and how it can be used to benefit them. But instead, they just assume Bitcoin is like the media is saying it is.

SilkRoad can be seen as the very first successful merchant depending fully on Bitcoin. At the time I entered the world of Bitcoin, this didn't bother me at all. I didn't look at it as being a negative point. I looked at it as being a great example of how well Bitcoin is working as currency tool.


Yep. If people after that still don't see much added value in using Bitcoin, then you at least have tried it, and they know what Bitcoin is. When at some point they are ready for it, then they know where and what to look for.

Whether it is with bitcoin or not, the result is always becoming with the user. So if a user wants to earn with bad activities we can't force them to stop.
And that is real and happening so we can't deny that bitcoin is being used in illegal activities. Because in real life, fiat money or dollars are being use in illegal activities where it all started.

Yeah no one can stop user who using bitcoin for illegal activities. People only can give admonition for these people. Usually they playing Gambling or transactions bitcoin for drug. It is the most they do.
Buy and sell drug with bitcoin transactions as payment. They get a advantage from bitcoin feature as like anonymous uses.