One of the weakest arguments against bitcoin I have ever heard has to be that “criminals use it”

how does an intelligent person hear that an just accept it? Do criminals live in a different world than we do? Do criminals accept fake money for their crime? I don’t even understand the logic #bitcoin

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Criminals use USD more than any other curency. That fact usually ends the "criminals use it" retort for me 😂

Yeah but money equals value, why would a criminal use money that has no value? What’s the point of being a criminal? Criminals steal value. The logic is borderline flat earth theory yet I hear it so often and I’m left thinking “did this person even think about this for even 2min?

I find most criminals hold different value hierarchies and generally don't think that hard about them either. There are of cource exceptions.

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