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Re:The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero by blueprint on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:43AM (#16060195)
You're making big generalizations about lack of usage and economy, and you've provided no citations or verifyable grounds. For example, did you know about https://www.projectcoralreef.com?
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Re:The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero by htormey on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:54AM (#16060937)
In regards to bitcoin I believe he is correct. About 97% of the activity appears to be people on exchanges:

https://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/4122695-bitcoin-series-...

This mainly appears to be due to transaction times and high fees.

I’d be interested to see a similar analysis for monero but that’s probably not easily doable due to its privacy features.

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Re:The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero by lawlessone on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:52AM (#16060230)
All i see are various online "stores" for buying kitsch band tshirts.
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