Cracking down on DNM sites is currently a low priority for the Russian government. The result of this has been proliferation of Russian language DNM sites that largely operate in the open and on an open blockchain.

How do you think things like global-scale shifts in power or protocol updates will affect the blockchains these DNMs operate on?

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The article states that in 2020 there was a 240% increase in use of Tether by pro-ISIS groups in Pakistan and Tajikistan. Not quite fiat but kind of bonkers that theyโ€™re using a Hong Kong based stable coin.

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You canโ€™t make a transaction without the state breathing down your neck in the US and EU.

The west has become more tyrannical and communist than Russia.

Not to mention that if you are selling drugs from an independent supplier you are directly competing with the US government, they donโ€™t like that since they are the biggest drug dealer in the world.

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a huge chunk of any userbase will never care about opsec until bad things start happening all the time

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Even then adoption seems slow. There are so many stories of people getting their accounts frozen for suspicious or forbidden BTC use but the same mistakes keep getting repeated.

I rest easy knowing that my crypto assets are private but I guess most people donโ€™t seem to care because theyโ€™re not spending them? Idk

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