The crypto boom may have made criminals richer

http://ift.tt/UJ8wUr years, bitcoin has been the de facto currency of black markets on the so-called dark web. Anonymous, easy to store, and able to be transferred without an in-person interaction, bitcoin was a natural fit for the “Amazon for drugs,” other illicit online black market trading, and terrorism. And if these actors ...

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