Quote from: pinkflower on October 09, 2017, 01:56:06 AM

Quote from: Silberman on October 08, 2017, 03:31:50 AM

Quote from: pinkflower on October 08, 2017, 03:27:53 AM

Quote from: Seedify on October 07, 2017, 09:48:13 PM

There is a strong opportunity for the right blockchain-cryptocurrency solution to solve this problem.

How? If the banks start opening up to the cannabis and medical marijuana industry then users can buy them legally with fiat and credit cards. Thats where BTC and other cryptocurrencies lose their notoriety as the preferred medium to use for buying and selling illegal drugs.

Regulations and restrictions give more value to BTC than we know.

While the money changing hands in the dark net is big, it is not as big in terms of percentage as it was years ago, now many people are doing legitimate business and activities in bitcoin, many people in the forum are against anything that is black hat or illegal and you are going to be banned or given negative trust if you even suggest to do something like that, and that is the general attitude of bitcoin users, we want to distance ourselves from those people.

Not as big? I am sorry but you are very wrong. The darknet market as a whole has quadrupled in size since the clamp down of the Silk Road, and its still growing. You underestimate the allure it has among criminals, especially in organized crime. Its going to get bigger and bigger and BTC will be in the forefront as the preferred cryptocurrency.

Most of the people in this forum are nobodies. They dont even run full nodes.

I said not as big in terms of percentage, even if it has gone up in size by that much, how many times the trading business has grown in the same time period? If the answer is more than that then that means that the piece of the pie that represent illegal transactions on bitcoin has gone down even if the absolute number of transactions and the value of those transactions has gone up.