Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem

By Kyle Soska, Nicolas Christin. USENIX Security Symposium, 2015

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Sex, Drugs, and Bitcoin: How Much Illegal Activity Is Financed through Cryptocurrencies? (2019, unknown): “This assumption is supported by ample anecdotal evidence, objective empirical evidence in the form of darknet market scrapes that show the goods and services traded there (e.g., Christin, 2013; Aldridge Décary-Hétu, 2014; Van Buskirk et al., 2014; Soska and Christin, 2015), as well as actions by law”
An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain (2017, background): “The recent seizure of AlphaBay serves as a reminder of the fragility of these marketplaces, whether due to lawful actions, hacks, or exit scams [28], leaving users remain at risk of deanonymization.”