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World’s largest crypto-powered dark web marketplace shut down


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The largest dark web marketplace, called DarkMarket, has finally been taken offline after a joint operation between law enforcement agencies from several different countries - Germany, Denmark, Australia, Moldova, Ukraine, the UK and the States, coordinated by Europol and led by the German Koblenz Public Prosecutor’s office. The market had almost half a million users and over 2,400 sellers of various illegal goods, such as malware, stolen or fake ID cards, drugs and anonymous SIM cards. It largely operated through cryptocurrencies – transactions with cryptocurrency worth more than 140 million euro were finalized. Out of those transactions over 4,650 Bitcoin tokens and 12,800 Monero XMR were transferred.

Source: https://www.forexbrokerz.com/news/world-largest-crypto-powered-dark-web-marketplace-shut-down

I think this is great news. Cryptos being used for things like that give the industry a very bad name.

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