A huge volume of all Bitcoin transactions
When the FBI shut down Silk road the price was crashed
1. your talking about past mindsets when bitcoin had only 5 retail uses. but now bitcoin has over 130,000 retail uses and is holding its own without the need for drug industry..
2. silk road got hit years ago... yea there was a speculative crisis that tanked the price temporarily due to panic.. but now silk road has gone.. how come the price is $400 .. (multiple times higher then it ever was while silk road was around)
bitcoin has become more popular now due to legitimate trade and usefulness.. (dell overstock newegg etc) and its no longer the darknet coin of 50,000 users. but instead the legit coin of multiple millions of users
stop living in the past, trying to say we need to cut off legitimate trade advertising, and to go back to the bad old days....otherwise bitcoin will go back to a 50000 userbase and a low price that reflects that.
1. People still sell drugs via bitcoin and sell fake ID CARDS / PASPORTS / WEAPONS in a huge volume.
2. Silk road has gone, and still there are plenty of illegal sites based on bitcoin and the price rate effected from illegal stuff the most today.