Surely _some_ came from ransomware, but I feel the article overstates this. Presumably, the hackers also exchange it as soon as they have the chance and they wo

Surely _some_ came from ransomware, but I feel the article overstates this. Presumably, the hackers also exchange it as soon as they have the chance and they wouldn't have used this as an environment if it didn't have value in the first place. I think a much better case can be made that early crypto liquidity came from darknet markets.