This post is to give some support and useful facts to all those local Bitcoin evangelists on their offices, families and friends discussions. Because if you are one of us, you should receive very frequent comments about Bitcoin being the preferred currency of the drug dealers, money launderers and terrorists. And those comments sucks, but to be fair, if you had a traditional newspaper and you need to get readers interested, would you choose a piece about water wells being built in Kenya by Bitcoin borderless donations:

or a movie-kind plot involving “drugs, secret service and the dark web” like this one:

Come on, I am sure even most of you, bitcoin evangelists, are more likely to click on the latter than to watch the 3 minute video.

But I`ll try to give you some facts that will help next time someone accuse you of promoting this shadow currency.