There is a Doge Road Black Marketplace? Its not such a joke after all some are really using it to buy drugs. It looks like the authorities have a new target to catch.
The darknet market on the link I addressed above is surely not a big deal compared to other means. More importantly, the mentioned Doge Road marketplace and Archetyp swap service were already defunct according to the reports.
But like what is known any coins can be used to pay for illicit activity, its just that they find doge to have a value and good for payment this time.
Exactly, people are dazzled thinking cryptocurrencies are only being used by criminals and to do bad things, etc. While in fact, by any means of economic exchange, a person who would do bad things will make use of any tools that are available/benefit to them.
Some people are just highlighting its bad use, but if you look at the figures, it is so small as compared to let's say using fiat.
This is why for those people who are reading such kind of news, they need to be objective and logical on what's being presented.
Check the numbers and see if that is really significant to influence the illegal market or are they just highlighting its usage in the bad light?
Because it is true, these criminals will use any form of currency that they can get a hold of, as long as they can use it.