I believe that any technology can be used for illegal activities, for example: a telephone, Internet and of course cryptocurrencies, however, the great benefits of a project or system should not be committed just because there are criminals, it is true that cryptocurrencies offer privacy, but before its existence, even if people carried out these illegal practices, then we must strengthen values ​​in society and apply the weight of the law.

"Welcome To Video is one of the first websites to monetise child sexual abuse using bitcoin, which allows users to hide their identities during financial transactions.
Users were able to redeem the digital currency in return for “points” that they could spend downloading videos or buying all-you-can watch “VIP” accounts. Points could also be earned by uploading child sexual abuse images."

of course, its privacy when you nake transaction using crypto. but it cant be crypto fault, you cant blame crypto. i think, the owner cause the trouble, and for me it doesnt give effect on bitcoin, but for people that dont know about bitcoin will give negative think because they can cheated

Lol! I must not be hearing this properly! Kids should be taught how to standup for themselves" as it ever occur to you that the people behind this terrible act normally move in group to adopt children? Even adults are rarely able to standup against 4-5 able bodied men and fight them off not to talk of a kid,
You can only wish not to encounter such people.

250k videos? I don't believe that.

I wish people would actually go on the deep web instead of talking rubbish. There is nothing really on the dark web. It is just unindexed files and a shitton of scams and a few weird forums. Buying drugs and a few other illegal medical things. To access kiddie porn on the dark web you have to actually know the address and be in the circle with the rest of these child abusing lunatics. You cannot accidentally stumble upon kiddie porn it doesn't work that way. It's not like they advertise it. Besides the clear web has everything the darkweb has. There is nothing new about the darkweb that has not already been done 100x before. People need to educate themselves about the darkweb seriously.


What a load of crap. You pay anonymously by handing someone paper notes. So are you doing bad things? Am I doing bad things? If no then you talking crap because you just said people meaning if you give anyone the ability to be anonymous they will.

Your argument is just as ridiculous as blaming chat apps on child abductions. We give people a means to chat online and they abuse it? Sorry buy you are talking nonesense now.

The fact that being pseudonym had been taken advantage by these people. They see it as a gateway for criminal acts considering it took almost 4 years for authorities to caught these maniacs. Imagine of how many videos are being sold from their 8 terabyte storage.

I pity those children. 

I am very happy to hear this news because the police have arrested many people on sexual and pornographic harassment sites, especially those who use children who are used as roles in pornographic scenes, they deserve to be hanged and not forgive so there is no mercy so there is no again such cases later so as not to destroy the future generations of our children.

only people that don't know much about it say that


Silk road was positive overall, checking out the forums on Silk road was part of what convinced me Bitcoin could work. People were mostly nice folks (although they were alot of them middle-class drug addicts despite that) trying to help each other, it was a real marketplace where trust and information drove the prices, and scammers were handled by regular people, not government regulation. It was clearly messy, but it was clearly also working.


child abuse porn and guns were disallowed. The most popular drugs were marijuana (which is on the verge of losing it's UN-imposed illegal status worldwide), and prescription drugs. That's right, legal drugs were 2nd most popular on the Silk Road (although obviously it's still illegal to sell them without a medical prescription, but that's often true of marijuana too)

It is not fair enough to cornering bitcoin just because this news. And also, I'm still happy being called as bitcoin user although this kind of news still popping up in the future. The reason is simple, I didn't do an illegal activity that using bitcoin and I'll never do that.

Bitcoin can be included as a currency (I said it because some people out there is not agree to call bitcoin as currency they just call it as an asset) so, all people is free to using it, I won't blame them because they have a right to using it. Yeah, just assert in the privous post money fiat is  worse than bitcoin if I compare it.