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Patently false. It is one of the worst currencies for illegal transactions. The last place you want your illegal money to be is a public ledger. Maybe monero or

Patently false. It is one of the worst currencies for illegal transactions. The last place you want your illegal money to be is a public ledger. Maybe monero or another private currency would be more common with criminals

FDSGSG 6y ago
Sure, Monero is technically better. But actual usage is what matters, and Monero doesn't have that. There's one DNM pushing Monero, nobody on cybercrime forums is using it. Ransomware operators have tried it, but usually shifted back to Bitcoin.
- AlwaysBCoding 6y ago
  It's only an anecdote but I used to buy Adderall on Libertas, which was a Monero-only drug market, seemed to work pretty well and solved a real world problem for me.
  - FDSGSG 6y ago
    And Libertas ended up shutting down because their exotic tech choices drove away all the users. At least 90% of darknet trade happens using Bitcoin.
    - john117 6y ago
      Source on that 90%?
      - FDSGSG 6y ago
        I run data collection scripts on 64 different darknet sites. Markets that accept both BTC and XMR get hardly any XMR deposits, WHM is a major market that makes up essentially all the XMR traffic but is growing much slower than BTC-accepting markets despite being very popular on Dread.