Yes and no. Unless it is illegal to buy Bitcoins in your country/state/city/area/etc. then buying Bitcoins is fine. Coinbase and the like are more or less estab

Yes and no. Unless it is illegal to buy Bitcoins in your country/state/city/area/etc. then buying Bitcoins is fine. Coinbase and the like are more or less established businesses now. If you intend on using them for things that you wouldn't want traced back to you, there are quite a few Bitcoin tumblers/launderies/what-have-you. Once they come out the other side, you have plausible deniablity.