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by herbst 1882 days ago
This is the same timeline i remember. When Bitcoin was still new it did not seem a lot more practical for illegal/grey area things than other things that were already etablished (PaySafe, PerfectMoney or even PayPal for example).

It's only when the media picked up that drug markets are starting to use Bitcoin (they've been there before, just not at that scale) when the sentiment changed.