Thu Jan 30 21:59:46 2020
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— Bitcoin has lost steam, but criminals still love it
— The amount of cryptocurrency spent on so-called darknet markets, where stolen credit card information and a wide array of illegal drugs can be purchased with bitcoins, rose 60% to reach a new high of $601 million in the last three months of 2019, according to data released Tuesday by Chainalysis, a firm that tracks every bitcoin transaction and serves as an adviser to an array of government authorities. <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/technology/bitcoin-black-market.html>
