I think the stronger message is that bitcoin was able to survive without all the darkweb transactions. And that's positive.
darkweb sustains Bitcoin as it is
dark market +darkweb = +90% from Bitcoin.
you will say that someone may use BTC for trading. I rather trade gold which is a regulated market and the earnings are much higher(losses the same) than shit Bitcoin )
Bitcoin is mainly use for illegal things as ponzi schemes, illegal forex, drugs, credit card frauds, fake IDs and so on.
yea a lot bitcoin people use bitcoin for a illegal payment before because anonymity yup
but now btc already really popular
With no doubt people still are using bitcoin for anonymous illegal activities. Maybe not as much as they used to, now that bitcoin has recieved alot of attention. They've probably moved to bytecoin or something even more anonymous.