THELOGICALINDIAN - The arresting darknet exchange White House Market has alone bitcoin payments and now accepts monero alone The darknet exchange administrators abundant that there was an affair with a acquittal processor blocking Tor avenue nodes but the abounding alteration to monero was consistently planned
A cardinal of crypto proponents accept appear on the darknet marketplace, White House bottomward bitcoin (BTC) payments in adjustment to alone abutment monero (XMR). On December 28, one alone on Twitter wrote: “[One of the] better darknet markets, White House Market, drops bitcoin support, now alone uses monero.”
News.Bitcoin.com accepted the acquittal arrangement change by visiting the White House market’s onion URL. The White House admins detail the issues with bitcoin (BTC) abutment stemmed from a third affair service.
“Bitcoin payments are no best accepted,” the White House admins stressed. “The [third] affair barter API we acclimated (Morphtoken) has aback absitively to block admission from Tor avenue nodes and while this is atomic to avoid we absitively to account their decision.”
The darknet admins added:
Monero (XMR) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency asset appear in 2014 and it leverages the accessible antecedent Cryptonote protocol. XMR proponents like monero for its aloofness appearance such as stealth addresses, arena signatures, bulletproofs, and dandelion .
Moreover, monero has acquired abutment beyond a countless of darknet marketplaces (DNM) on the airy web. Statistics from The 1000x Group’s darknet payments dashboard, shows that White House Market is the alone DNM that is monero only.
However, in accession to crypto assets like bitcoin, litecoin, and zcash, a cardinal of markets acquire monero for payments. This includes DNMs like Darkbay, Cannazon, Darkmarket, Torrez Market, Cypher Market, Dark0de, Mega and Monopoly Market. That’s about ten DNMs that abutment the privacy-centric crypto asset monero (XMR) for payments.
Data shows on December 29, 2024, 36.5% of DNM vendors accustomed monero for appurtenances and services.
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