[drinchev]

I don't get why journalists are not writing about the criminal side of Bitcoins.

Lots of "users" ( not investors ) interested in Bitcoins are actually .onion sites or other shady / crime organisations.

They actually don't care for human life and I doubt they will care for electricity consumption.

[zaphar]

Honestly Bitcoin is probably an improvement for law enforcement. Cash is more anonymous. Bitcoin is completely public and traceable while in the network. And the moment you pull it out of the network you are connected to a real world entity.

[have_faith]

Do you know of any sources that try and track this sort of thing? like as a rough percentage of dirty money in the system. Because I get the impression that with the recent run of people getting in the percentage of shadyness is dropping as result because of the massive increase in volume from speculators.

[lagadu]

For the same reason they don't write about the criminal side of using fiat currency. Lots of users are criminals who sell drugs or rob people and are paid in pesky, untraceable coins and banknotes and do it just to receive those.