Scam has been existing before cryptocurrencies  were created, in this modern time, people still mostly use fiats to scam, even if bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies  are banned, scammerw will still always make use of fiats to scam. There are many ways scammers o this successfully in a way they can even not be traceable. In some instances, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies  are traceable than fiats.

They are starting to recognize it as they find the value of it growing back again. They will not ignore it as it's giving the attention of everyone who looks after the price but not what it is.
Just like any other payment options that we have in our economy, bitcoin can be an alternative of it. They don't have to look at it as something negative which they can't benefit.

Bitcoin always has pros and cons about the technology it uses which is integrated with the blockchain, so that any transactions carried out in bitcoin will be easily tracked by anyone, this is transparent. Not all governments think that bitcoin is only used as a criminal and illegal destination. Bitcoin also still has a positive side that will be useful. tracking people who hacked on twitter is certainly proof that bitcoin is very useful for tracking crimes committed.

But there are some transactions that will not be easily traced and require permission from third parties, such as if the transaction uses a coin mixer service to eliminate the origin of the coin, this is a level of privacy that is done to eliminate traces of the transaction.

People claim that BTC is not a good replacement because it can be used for money laundering and tax evasion clearly doesn't know, what the Blockchain ledger is.
In fact the technology behind Bitcoins fix other issues in your banking system such as fractional reserve banking and quantitative easing which devalues other supply in circulation.

They're basically making excuses so that their illegal action themselves are unable to be noticed/tracked. It's actually a lot easier for them to be tracked when there's an officially recognized address for each government organization's wallet after all. Also, the twitter hack was quickly tracked because of the carelessness of the hackers themselves. They didn't send them all to mixers, cashed out a few which lead to them being tracked, as well as a few of their fellow hackers just plain up confessed everything when they were caught. Add that to their young age, it was quite natural that their inexperience led them to being caught.

This is basically how past people were fearful of fire because it hurts them, when in reality if people actually bothered to learn about it, it'd be a pretty useful tool for our everyday lives.

that is misleading because as far as i understood the situation these twitter hackers (or most of the other criminals that were caught in the past) weren't caught because they were using bitcoin and through bitcoin blockchain analysis. instead they were all caught because they were using some centralized service (Coinbase in this case and most cases!) and that service revealed their identity.
for example there was a hacker a while ago who sent the hacked bitcoins to his Coinbase account and was also buying stuff from iTunes and were caught that way. he might as well never used bitcoin and were using something like PayPal.

This. Easiest & quickest proof: Bitcoin vs Monero adoption. Monero is slowly pushed back, away from the usual customer's reach. I'd have to guess you'd be more likely to be tracked down and stalked by intel agencies if you were to hold XMR than if you were to hold BTC. It wouldn't surprise me if intel agencies already have some blockchain analysis teams undergoing some hard work behind the scenes.

If Bitcoin was completely uncontrollable, they'd ban it 100%. But I guess we all made mistakes along those many years of crypto experience. One little mistake means everything uncovered and forever recorded out there and available for the state or anyone else who is interested in this data. With cash, for example, tracing it is close to impossible without very in-depth investigation - with no cameras around, using burner phones and voice changers, there's no exact history behind a banknote registered anywhere. BTC is basically a trap for whoever wants to use it the illegitimate way thinking it's the perfect criminal's currency.

The same can be said with fiat. Fiat is still the most used currency when doing illegal things. It even overshadowed cryptocurrency (at least for now). I don't know about your government but our government is really willing to accept legitimate business regarding cryptocurrency. The only thing our government is against are scams.


Bitcoin itself is actually uncontrollable. The only thing the government can control are third-parties that integrate Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. if you don't use those, then you'll most likely will never get tracked (With a little help of mixers)

Possibly part of the reasons. A truely corrupt and "powerful" person will really be very scared of technology like Bitcoin and its very important features. I also think some dislike the technology due to ignorance and misinformation.
If a cryptocurrency/currency is not as transparent as Bitcoin or even more transparent, it can be easily abused. All sort of evil could pass through it without most people knowing. True decentralization makes Proper Transparency possible. This's part of the reasons centralization of crypto must be avoided. People or/and Network/system handling lots of money need to very transparent and accountable.