It's pretty obvious though, you just have to look at the recent scams that PlusToken has pulled-off, which roughly to be estimated around $2 billion worth of crypto's including BTC, ETH, USDT and OMG.

And then we have the usual scams, fake-giveaways and now, cyber criminals are using the covid-19 hysteria to jump on and take advantage of people's emotions. I'm sure the community is doing everything to warn people of a possible scam, but I guess the market is really big that it is hard to cover, plus we still have a lot of gullible people, who also thinks that they are smarter and can get easy money. But they really don't know that scammers are really out there, trying to lure and milk them in which every way they can.

If this was true then it is absolutely ridiculous to think on why the government is always pinpointing the criminal activities involved in the crypto industry as if it was the biggest concern on as acting out a vehicle for crimes to happen. The funny thing about this one is they always left out scams when they are talking about illicit activities they always focus more on money laundering and tax evasion and drug payments and nothing about scams that victimize people within the the industry. It really makes you wonder on why they are pushing on things they really don't know about yet they act as if it is the main threat on the criminal world. Lets just hope this analysis becomes mainstream so that these politicians would shut their mouth about crypto being a tool for crime.

I can agree with that, the ease of transaction is mainly the advantage for me when you are talking crypto. Based from the OP's graph, the large contributing part are scams and I think that's true. So many crap and scam projects, promising overwhelming returns, etc. but they will disappear once they got their money. This is the sad reality in crypto. But they are lessening now as less and less investors are joining these ICOs, IEOs, STOs or whatever your call it and especially now that we are in crisis. I hope these crap projects will be gone forever.

Take the USD for a second and imagine it was 100% transparent and anyone could fully analyze anyone's wallet. How much USD and fiat overall do you think is used in illegal activities? I'll tell you it's a ton of money and fiat is still alive and doing well overall (ignoring the pandemic and economical downfall).

Same goes for jewelry and precious metals. You can't really compare how BTC is used for illicit activity with fiat because fiat doesn't have an entire damn history of where every single penny has been. This "BTC is used by criminals" shit is old and utter bullshit. Anything is used by criminals and they'll never cease to exist.

The source is quite unreliable though but I'll give it a credit for that although most of these numbers are not really the right number as I was expecting. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are already one of the source of these criminal activities around the globe and I think it is not just only in cryptocurrencies since there are wide scams in fiat too such as the investment scam also known as hyip.

This is far to be compared. Criminal activities are required to use the most anonymous method they find in the market. However, criminals represent just a little portion from the total number of bitcoin users.

It would be good to see a data comparison of cryptocurrency vs fiat and their perspective illegal activities. 1% will not be a big deal when we compare it with fiat money. With fiat, a huge percent of illegal activities is going on.

Earlier, studies were conducted in the USA and Europe on the role played by bitcoin in the illegal use of funds among the entire cryptocurrency. It turned out that only about eight percent of cases of illegal transactions in cryptocurrency belonged to using bitcoin. Most of the illegal transactions were using anonymous coins. It also provides data that only 1.1 percent of all transactions in all currencies are owned using cryptocurrency. Of course, this figure is not very large. We can say that there are no problems in this regard and Bitcoin is mainly used for its intended purpose.

There are still many people who do illegal in crypto transactions, they use it for their own interests and also acts of cheating in various ways, for example, scamer who continues to deceive people into selling tokens or other things.
But no one would have thought that even crypto is often used for crimes in funding terrorists, money laundering and other fraudulent matters so this transaction is still polemic until now because some countries are still afraid of it, could the state be able to control the blockchain so I sure they will implement it to become a mass adoption.

I understood your point but the graph is very hard to understand, thereare overlapping colors which makes the graph confusing. If you can provide a cleaner bar graph many will appreciate. I am sorry that I don't understand the graph that you provided but this is a good insight on what is going on with the crimes and illegal activities that uses bitcoin.