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by vorpalhex 1626 days ago
You need to recheck your numbers. [1] says the number is about 7% for the US. [2] is > 10% for Bitcoin before I stopped adding.
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[2] says:

> illicit transactions making up less than 0.5% of Bitcoin’s yearly volume in 2020

No adding required.

[1] throws a lot of numbers including/excluding different categories of drugs/etc. You can squabble about 7% or 12%, but the point is it's an order of magnitude higher than 0.5%.