Indeed, many use bitcoin as a transaction in illegal purchases such as buying illegal weapons and illegal drugs. they use bitcoin because it is hard to track because the transaction is anonymous. so it's not only in the Philippines that uses it, even in the whole world it uses it

I read an article in which it was written that monero is very successfully used for drug trafficking and in dark net. In any case, the facts cited in the article seemed to me rather convincing. Drug barons found a rather convenient way to avoid unnecessary attention and protect their money from the police and tax authorities. The Philippines is not the only country in which drug trafficking problems are acute, but we must pay tribute, the country's leadership has been struggling hard against drug trafficking in the past 5 years.

You hit the nail on the head: bitcoin transactions are transparent and pseudonymous, not anonymous. Once authorities discover the bitcoin addresses of the drug traffickers, they will be able to grasp the full scope of their operations. Sooner or later the authorities will learn how to use the blockchain to track the flow of funds.

It's a known issue  way back and also the reason why there's still a lots of people who's doubting this chain, negative impressions comes first before people realize that it's really part of every industry, those negative things are also present even in the real fiat currency.

The government should act accordingly regarding to this matter, if they seen this then they needed to have a good counter to avoid things to go bigger.

I don't believe it too.  I am from Philippines and I don't think there are hundreds of bitcoin users who does transact over drugs here. Most of the methheads here aren't that smart to learn about BTC at all. Philstar.com ain't the kind of paper that can be trusted. Proven in many articles they publish are politically aimed to ruined reputation of the sitting President. Just look how divided we are as a nation because of these fake news from a political party that can't accept the fact that they all lose. Philstar is full of shit.

I think they must do regulations regarding this. Not because it could affect bitcoin's value or integrity. But just simply eradicate crimes. Even though drug pushers or syndicates are now using this technology, fiat is still involve in this drug issues. This is going to be bad for bitcoin if the government can't watch over these guys who chose to use bitcoin, and dark web to transact illegal actions.

it must always be a bitcoin that is a scapegoat from a transaction that is considered unlawful, actually if we think well, bitcoin is just a tool or media that we use to facilitate our transactions, like a knife that will produce something good in the form of food if we use it for cooking but it will wreak havoc if we use it to hurt others. So actually it is not a bitcoin that is the source of the problem, but its unwise use will be a problem.

Need an understanding to be a journalist in order to not make a topic which is not relevant. This is one thing that should be know by everyone who which will make a topic about bitcoin. They are just consume a topic without knowing the fact, because there are a lot of cases which has been handled by a police about illegal transaction that use bitcoin.

Once again bitcoin is not fully anynomous, the transaction will be known by everyone because the system is really transparent. Hopefully, in the future the illegality that use bitcoin will be disappear because this information will make everyone afraid and have a negative thinking to bitcoin. It will be good for a journalist to write an article that stated bitcoin is not anynomous in order to the perpetrator aware that if he use bitcoin for their payment system will be known by a police.

That could be true because they don't want to see bitcoin will be used for illegal transaction although they know that bitcoin can do for whatever reason. The used of bitcoin itself will depend on the people, and I am sure that each people will have different purposes in using bitcoin.

Bitcoin can be a good thing or the bad thing, and we should use bitcoin for a good thing only so we can get the benefits of bitcoin and we don't have to break the law. But if we know that bitcoin has been used for the illegal transaction by our friends, perhaps, we need to remind them not to use bitcoin for that thing because there is a risk behind of the illegal transaction in the future and they don't know what exactly will happen to them.