The Silk Road was the purpose of Bitcoin..
What is it these days?
Alphabay? But I haven’t explored in a long time..
I’m all for free markets..
Although a bit OT, last I heard [I did not check] most darknet markets are using XMR instead of BTC since it's way more anonymous.
Back to the subject on hand, there seems to be a bit of a loop going on here and although people seem to agree with me they still come back to CM is for "bad people"
No, it's for lazy people. There is nothing CM does that you can not do yourself. I just went and setup accounts on 2 exchanges that require nothing more then an email, actually used a separate disposable email service for each one while sitting in a parking lot on the free Wi-Fi from the Wendy's
Both have about the same price on XMR at the moment. So I could move my BTC to 1 of the exchanges, trade to XMR, withdraw to another exchange and trade back to
BTC and to my wallet.
Would cost me ~ 30 minutes of time, 1.5% trade fee, .01 XMR withdraw fee and the
BTC withdraw fee.
To find me you would need to get the records of an exchange in China and exchange someplace else and then figure out how to trace XMR.
*I did not do this because I have better things to do with my time but the point remains the same.
Or, I don't know, install Samourai Wallet and use Whirlpool and be done.
-Dave