> What's wrong with people using BTC to buy drugs?
The flaw that is raised isn't that BTC is used to buy drugs, but that it (in the view of those raising the complaint) doesn't have a strong use aside from buying drugs (and, while "drugs" are usually mentioned, the substance of the complaint appears to be more about drugs-as-popular-form-of-contraband rather than drugs-qua-drugs.)
And given the way governments tend to respond to things that (1) are primarily used to facilitate unlawful trade, and (2) become increasingly popular, its a real, if political, risk for the Bitcoin ecosystem.
The flaw that is raised isn't that BTC is used to buy drugs, but that it (in the view of those raising the complaint) doesn't have a strong use aside from buying drugs (and, while "drugs" are usually mentioned, the substance of the complaint appears to be more about drugs-as-popular-form-of-contraband rather than drugs-qua-drugs.)
And given the way governments tend to respond to things that (1) are primarily used to facilitate unlawful trade, and (2) become increasingly popular, its a real, if political, risk for the Bitcoin ecosystem.