https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/01/23/bitcoin-playing-an-increased-role-in-crime-europol-says/Would you believe that the existence of bitcoin has increased the number of criminality in some countries in the world. This is the issue that was being thrown by the EuroPol and the UK Metropolitan Police. According to them bitcoin has played a huge role on the increasing criminality in their area. They added that a huge number of cybercriminals were using bitcoins in their activities.
This just shows that as bitcoin develops both advantages and disadvantages will tag along.
Bitcoin is one of the liquidity source today, may be its centralisation, currency, acceptance, regulation is a lateral part. People might choose bitcoin mode for demanding but bitcoin itself is not a criminality and with or without crypto, people can find other ways for criminality.
Criminality might happen by any other ways not only with bitcoin mode. It's just based on what way the criminals choose.
However before bitcoin also criminality existed and the hackers taking a key role in choosing bitcoin as their mode of transaction for demanding, hackers demanded even hospitals, top organisations etc to make the payment through bitcoin to avoid hack.
Bitcoin even helping many people around, it's a great platform that many getting benefitted through bitcoin even comparing to the government services to the people, we strongly say Bitcoin is for the people and it is regulated with the demand of the people in economic principle such as demand and price.