I like a good bit of journalism too and Popper's at least a lot more comprehensible than others but even he's got to understand why the reactions on his Twitter to this... drivel.

Surprisingly, instead of conceding that he went all sensationalist, he's responded with this Tweet: "These #'s start to provide a picture of why we write about this. It is not just because the black market stuff is sensational. It is also one of the most steadily growing and interesting experiments in how BTC can be used in the real world."

Come on, of course it's because black market stuff is sensational. Even if analytics prove "black market stuff" actually doesn't prefer BTC (as Lucius shares 2 posts above), you'll still write otherwise.