>According to the court document, investigators obtained a digital copy of the servers behind the domains and also made an undercover purchase from the marketplace, both taking place around May 2020.
>Tracking the Bitcoin transaction used to make the purchase led the investigators to a wallet...
The only safe DNMs are the ones that are XMR-only. These are the ones that manage to operate for years and then "retire" whenever they want, instead of getting busted and sent to the "pound me in the ass prison."
Tbh, any DNM that still works with btc is a honeypot imo.
>Yet XMR has not become the standard in the DN unfortunately.
It's getting there. You guys better prepare for it. Make sure you know your wallets, and get your seedphrase storages in order.
You are completely missing out "amount correlation," and also probably "timing correlation."
When you swap 10k bucks' worth of btc into xmr, and then back again from xmr into btc; guess what the chain analysis companies might observe: "From this point 10k worth of btc got out, and from this...
Bitcoin is _never_ anonymous. There are tons of gotchas with using bitcoin that it would make this thread reach to the Mars in length to cover.
Just use Monero.