A novel report, commissioned by the Dutch government, The report was requested yesteryear the Netherlands authorities to decide how drug markets convey fared inwards the years afterwards Silk Road’s demise. Unfortunately for authorities, the study seems to advise that their efforts to halt online drug trading convey to a greater extent than oft than non failed. In fact, according to the report, the successors of Silk Road are raking inwards millions of dollars inwards revenue each month. British drug dealers convey plainly flora this manufacture peculiarly lucrative, making upwards 16% of global revenue ,or closed to £1.75 million, betwixt an estimated 338 vendors.
However, too according to the report, cryptomarkets convey “grown substantially inwards the yesteryear few years, but non explosively,” which is the best word beleaguered police delineate enforcement agencies could perhaps inquire for considering the residue of the report.
Among the viii closed to pop marketplaces surveyed, in that location are enough of illicit goods too services to buy, the vast bulk (57 percent) of the listings were flora to offering drugs. Over a tertiary featured cannabis derivatives (37 per cent), stimulants (29 percent), too members of the ecstasy line of piece of job solid unit of measurement (19 percent).
Researchers too flora that a quarter of listings were priced above £768 ($1,000), implying that many dealers were using online markets to purchase inwards mass for offline sale.
In all, researchers guess that cryptomarkets generated a full monthly revenue of between £9.2m ($12m) too £16m ($21m) inwards Jan 2016, or several 1 yard k to a greater extent than when the prescription drugs, alcohol, too tobacco which were too flora for sale are included.
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