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Re:Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA dir... by vincnetas on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:09AM (#26803506)
I would think that BTC is not used only for buying drugs. If my numbers are correct daily BTC transaction volume is 290K or 15B€ or 750 tones of cocaine at 20€/g. Thats a lot of cocaine. In 2018 its estimayed that worldwide 1.7k tones were produced totally.
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Re:Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA dir... by lodovic on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:59AM (#26803861)
This assumes that the end users buy their cocaine straight from the big drug kingpin. These drugs are paid for many times.
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Re:Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA dir... by veb on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:37AM (#26804117)
That and there's more than cocaine out there on the darkweb.
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