It is just too obvious that the government and its people don’t want the legalization of bitcoin neither do they want the consensus of decentralization in which it operates. This is not the first time we have been hearing many negativity being attached to the name of bitcoin and it continues always. Before the coming of bitcoin, fiat was used for many illegal purposes and that hasn’t stopped till date. Both of them are being used for good and bad purposes but that doesn’t mean we should dislike or give a negative and permanent thought about them in which it was not what they were built on to do.

This is nothing more than a smear campaign against Bitcoin which the government and other mainstream media always does and this time it has utilized the ongoing conflict to gain more traction. There were wars, terrorism and illegal funding long before Bitcoin's presence and they are trying to link terrorism with Bitcoin & crypto to tarnish it's image and to create some sort of fear in people's mind about crypto. It's better baseless as usual, They will fail this time as well like they did in the past and it's a failure ont heir part that they didn't speculate this and had proper Intel about the conflict and now trying to shift the blame over crypto currency. These conflicts are happening for over 50 years and we should question the. that if crypto is used as a medium to collect donations then what was the medium which was used for terror funding before existence of crypto.

We just need to ignore these news as people with even slightest common sense would understand the intention of this news as they used similar claim for isis as well.

Well, like oktana have said, crimes have been since way past, criminals have been stealing, kidnappers have been kidnapping, serial killers have been doing their job with high sophisticated weapons, to simply put, crimes have been since the creation of man, so i am personally wondering why this set of people we call the government or lawmakers are acting like they don't know all this, they are acting like it was at the emergence of bitcoin that crimes slipped into our society, which is utterly a big lie and high delusional.

The lawmakers are particularly concerned that a huge amount of money was raised through cryptocurrencies, which was later reported to be false, but the lawmakers still will not withdraw back their request to go after bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, i would say that this attitude from this so-called lawmakers is nothing but out of their personal hate for bitcoin and crypto, if asked, will they say NO, that no illegal funding have ever been successfully done through fiat? How does criminals make payment for guns on the dark web before 2008? how was human trafficking funded before 2008? how were serial killers funded before 2008? all this are questions they know the answer to, but might not want to say the truth.

Bitcoin is here to stay, regardless of what ever anyone does.

I guess that's going to be helpful because the OP didn't mentioned that how he received the mail and from whom did he received that mail. I don't think that such allegations are any new in the sphere of Bitcoin and those type of allegations against Bitcoin will take place every here and there.

I remember that during the times of Russia-Ukraine war such type of false allegations against Bitcoin were raised and now those same people are again raising such allegations to defame Bitcoin. Their main point is to show that Bitcoin is used for crime activities but they never show the truth that fiat and other payment systems are also used for crime activities.

Bitcoin is a payment system and it depends on the users who are part of the payment system. They get their own personal wallets and from those wallets they can send their Bitcoin to anyone they want. Criminals or even laymen can have their Bitcoin wallets and people can have literally millions of wallets without any restrictions. Bitcoin is for everyone, and it is on the mentality of someone that how he/she uses it.

"this would be very concerning if it was true"

Even if it was true, why are they even trying to paint it as if all this fiasco was all because of bitcoin/crypto lmao. All these kinds of crimes existed even before bitcoin, and even without bitcoin they'll just be using the typical fiat currency.

I guess a major point in this particular situation is that raw information are oftentimes not black and white. Those who use them without thoroughly understanding them, their context, nuances, perspectives, and so on are the ones who particularly mislead others.

Thus, digesting and properly appreciating information are a responsibility, or even necessary capabilities, especially to personalities who have the influence either to shape a certain perception of the public or to create policies and regulations that will be implemented by the government and affect everybody else.

In which case, both Angus Berwick and Ian Talley of the Wall Street Journal, the journal itself, Senator Elizabeth Warren and the other more than a hundred lawmakers who signed the letter sent to no less than the White House and the Department of Treasury destroying the image of cryptocurrency, are all a big failure.

It's either they are incapable of digesting such data or they're biased or they're simply irresponsible. Either way, they should have just avoided acting on them.

They don't seem to know what a Bitcoin wallet is, or a Bitcoin address, or the difference between a centralized and decentralized platform, and so on.

This is a very old FUD that they keep using and spread it more whenever bitcoin is starting to rise again because each time the bull market starts it attracts a large number of people and they want to at least slow it down. So if they can scare even 1% into staying away from bitcoin they consider it a success in their battles against bitcoin.

This is complete nonsense. Firstly, there is no proof that Hamas used Bitcoin in its surprise attack on Israel. Secondly, even if it is proven that they used Bitcoin, what is the difference? What does Bitcoin have to do with the story? If they ban Bitcoin won't Hamas fighters be able to raise money again???!!!

They've done this many times even before Bitcoin existed, so why all the hype? It is better for them to focus on ending the war between the Palestinians and the Israelis rather than ignite a new war against Bitcoin.

I never understood post/emails like the one you pasted: everything is just a tool, how we decide to use it makes the difference, that's it. Otherwise I could say that screwdrivers are bad people you can kill someone using one; same thing with cars, you can use them to run away after committing a crime; you can use cell phones to organize a robbery, and so on. And years ago there actually have been researches about the amount of cryptos actually used by criminals and the percentage was ridiculously low, nothing compared to cash for example.