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That's not the whole story, some of it also has a functionality in facilitating trade of drugs and weapons.
by juujian 2y ago
That's not the whole story, some of it also has a functionality in facilitating trade of drugs and weapons.
- mingus88 2y agoWhich also seems to be pretty much dead at this point. TOR appears to have enough nodes operated by the authorities, with enough notable de-anonymizing exploits that anybody running a market or selling enough gets got And the ledger isn’t anonymous, and never was. Even using a mixer isn’t really good enough anymore to keep the authorities from tracking bitcoin flows to the point of cash out.
- toraway 2y agoDrug markets are very much not dead. One of the largest and most popular markets (Archetype) has been running smoothly for almost 4 years at this point. Which operates exclusively on Monero due to its far superior anonymity over Bitcoin. Most markets have either required Monero or heavily discouraged Bitcoin for quite a while now.
- hiq 2y agoNot sure where you get that from given the number of headlines mentioning cryptocurrencies including BTC and USDT being used in money laundering and crime in general. It looks like the US government has way less control over USD-based stablecoins than it has on the actual USD.