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by fc373745 1634 days ago
There was a period of time where bitcoin was almost exclusively used for illegal substances / activity - predominately for drugs (the only time I ever used bitcoin was to buy adderall on silkroad), but also for things like hiring hitmen, weapons, and child pornography.

To see cryptocurrency grow to what it is today, especially given the context of what it originally was used for is a bit demoralizing.
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DarkWiiPlayer 1634 days ago
> what it originally was used for

This "guilt by association" type thinking makes no sense at all. Why would it matter who the earlier adopters of bitcoin were and what they were using it for? This is like saying TOR is bad because most people associate it with those same things (drugs, hitmen, etc.)

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frankbreetz 1634 days ago
It matters because it is basically funding the worldwide crime system, if some bought slaves for 1000s of bitcoin, that is now worth many millions of dollars and guess what? That money is going to be reinvested into a bigger, better and more sophisticated criminal organization.

Crime is a business like anything else, profits get reinvested

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