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>The darknet markets certainly bring some demand, but it's high-velocity. You don't need to hold BTC, only transact in it. Except that if you're doing somethin
by gozur88 10y ago
>The darknet markets certainly bring some demand, but it's high-velocity. You don't need to hold BTC, only transact in it.
Except that if you're doing something illegal you pretty much do need to hold onto it unless you have a way of laundering it to a national currency.
- wmf 10y agoIt seems kind of pointless to engage in crime if you can never spend the profits.
- gozur88 10y agoYou can, but you have to spend them in bitcoins. There might even be enough of a legitimate bitcoin economy you could mostly do it, assuming you weren't a really big time criminal. Those guys have ways to launder the profits anyway.