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>(and also enabling things like money laundering, drug trafficking, etc.)

"Darknet markets are no longer a major use of Bitcoin, accounting for less than 1% of Bitcoin transactions in 2017"

https://blog.chainalysis.com/crypto-crime/

Mainly because known markets were shut down (maybe some new ones have cropped up which are not in that tracker?) and the dominant use of bitcoin transactions currently is wild speculation.

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