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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by knowThySelfx on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:06AM (#16656778)
Would it be surprising to say that trading in this might include Bitcoin?
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by lagadu on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:57AM (#16658782)
It would: Monero is the de facto standard currency in the deep web nowadays, not bitcoin.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by TeMPOraL on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:22AM (#16657213)
About as surprising as noticing that e.g. moving some trade to Switzerland involves increased use of Swiss franc.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by zanny on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:04AM (#16657600)
I'd imagine they would use Monero or Zcash nowadays since those are proven fairly more anonymized. Bitcoin is wholly public so all it takes is one identifiable wallet to start profiling addresses they interact with.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by anonymous5133 on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:34AM (#16659150)
You used to be able to tumble the bitcoins but cant realistically do it anymore due to high fees.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by knowThySelfx on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:32AM (#16658542)
By Bitcoin I meant Blockchain based money.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by smadge on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:02PM (#16660870)
Then you should say that or “cryptocurrency”
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by knowThySelfx on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:21AM (#16664861)
That I agree. But I couldn't edit it later on.
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by al_chemist on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:33AM (#16659142)
Unless they send you suitcase with human being and they don't expect them to get back with cash, then yes, it would be surprising.
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