Darknet Marketplace Monero Market Goes Offline Until January 2017
“We believe Monero is by far the best cryptocurrency at the moment to buy/sell anonymously,” an unknown rep of Monero Market told CCN before the Monero-focused dakrnet marketplace went offline today. The representative added: Bitcoin is not anonymous anymore. There has been lot’s of article of buyers/sellers being busted recently and this is just the tip of the iceberg. We believe in Monero and we do believe our market will grow in the next months as more and more people will get busted using Bitcoin. Monero Market was the first darknet marketplace to solely use Monero, a crypto-currency....
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