I parsed it as follows:

Like it or not, Bitcoin - like Tor - (and this will continue to increase over time) is associated closely by the public with drugs, money laundering, gun running and so forth.

So four (to be charitable, two) syntactically incorrect tokens will cause a parsing error? Good to know!

Either English is not your first language, or you're being deliberately obtuse. I can't tell which.

When I read it out loud to my wife, it made sense. But when I read it in my head, I couldn't figure it out.