Only 10% of the transactions have illegal roots. Bloomberg reports it with the reference to Lilita Infante, special agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

This information clearly runs counter to the opinion that cryptocurrencies are used only by the criminals.

According to Infante, the Administration started to keep an eye on Bitcoin five years ago when 90% of Bitcoin transactions were handled by criminals. Right now the number of fraudulent transactions is 10%.

However, it doesn’t mean that criminals stopped usig it at all. Starting with 2013 the number of illegal transactions online went up due to the increase in deals cut in the network.

British police also uses Bitcoin for its own purposes. In criminal investigation of criminal group who was accused of drug dealing and money laundering, British police confiscated 295 Bitcoins and sold it.

Police can keep 18,8% of the money they got for their operational costs.