Brian Keegan: It's incorrect to regard Bitcoin as the preserve of criminals

A Bitcoin ATM. One recent estimate puts the share of cryptocurrency in illicit use at less than 2% of the total in circulation. Picture: PA

The online cryptocurrency Bitcoin was in the news when, as part of a CAB investigation into the sale and supply of drugs, a man was made to forfeit Bitcoin worth €52m by the High Court.

Bitcoin is just one of several types of cryptocurrency which are widely used to make
payments online.