Sometimes I wonder whether criminals have established their own specific cryptocurrencies, because even criminals need to trade favors for favours.

But then again, using bitcoin or any crypto would be pretty dumb as a criminal, since with the wrong leak could trace you to everything that you've done with time stamps and possibly even locations. And you'd never know what was a honeypot, especially because you'd be dealing with criminals (and probably dumb ones).

The openness of bitcoin may actually help lower criminality over time because of these features, and make politicians more accountable to their people in more than one way.

You might be wright.  
I mean, your statement might be right.  

You may not hear about everyone who is caught though. I suspect law enforcement doesn't always want to give up all of their methods. =/

I don't think bitcoin is more used by criminals than other currencies.

Drug dealers always used cash, which is a lot more anonymous and untraceable than bitcoin is. There is a good TV show about this in Netflix, Narcos. This series tells the story of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug dealer who built an empire selling drugs in the united states.

He used only USD cash. In the TV show you can see he receiving millions and millions of dollars in cash. He couldn't even handle so much money, then he even started burying money to use later on!

Criminal activity has nothing to do with BTC. Criminals will use any kind of currency.

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I first heard about bitcoin when I reading about privacy online. After a few days, i discovered an article saying that bitcoin was a good currency for privacy... I couldn't stop reading about it since then.

Have you bought yet though? Are you planning to buy?

not yet , better wait for elon musk tweet about s*it coin  

A solid strategy.

It'll bottom out soon enough I'm sure. They say "It's time in the market, not timing."
Timing helps, but time in bitcoin will pay out, no doubt.

There was in the news about problems related to a big exchange where people were trading dollars vs a coin that can be created by some computer processing and the coin can work without banks.
It was the end of 2013, the exchange was Mt Gox, and actually Bitcoin was no longer mined by CPU (nor GPU). I thought I've missed the train and I spent (too) long time with altcoins until I actually became Bitcoiner, but nobody's perfect. But that was when I first heard of Bitcoin.

That was when I'm bored playing online games all day and start searching on how to earn online to sustain my gaming needs lol. And a facebook group/community related to bitcoin pops and I start following it. The members were very welcoming they even give me tip of 0.0001 btc joining and give me tips everything on how tos, thats way back 2015.

I've never actually heard of Bitcoin until a few years ago, when its price jumped to $ 20,000 for the first time. I guess I had heard of the cryptocurrencies, but I didn't think that they would ever gain traction. It was something that people talked about in fringe circles, but I didn't think that it would ever be a practical thing.

Obviously, I was young and stupid back then... I am a bit older now.

Bitcoin information is everywhere currently, so for we to grab the of cryptocurrency this season is no longer difficult bade on internet, many people notice what is cryptocurrency especially bitcoin through friends in the year 2010 and 2011, but due to the advert of cryptocurrency online everyone is now aware of cryptocurrency, even investing on it, shall in this scenario it depends on how you notice what's cryptocurrency.