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Re:Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civili... by ryanlol on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:58AM (#27119713)
Exploit.in, verified, maza, xss. Loads of public runet forums, english language crime forums like darkode have all died but the russian forums welcome english speakers.

Fraud shops like unicc, ferum, slilpp move more money than darknet drug markets and primarily use BTC or LTC (I don’t think any accept XMR)

Hydra, the biggest darknet drug market still doesn’t accept monero.

Of course it would make sense for all of these people to be using monero, just like the efficient market hypothesis makes sense.

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Re:Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civili... by trompetenaccoun on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:26PM (#27132833)
Cheers!

Hard to say what's the biggest shadow market of course but afaik WHM is the largest one for drugs and they only accept Monero. You're right, Bitcoin is still popular in the Russian forums, but that's at least partly because it's easier to cash it out anonymously over there. Lots of services that let you exchange your BTC for cash and my guess is the remaining coins just go through tumblers until they're clean.

https://news.bitcoin.com/darknet-giant-white-house-market-dr...

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Re:Berkshire: Bitcoin is ‘contrary to the interest of civili... by ryanlol on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:55PM (#27144431)
FWIW Hydra is vastly bigger drug market than WHM.
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