[jqpabc123]

Wooden nickels were useful for paying too -- if you could find a sucker willing to accept them. Doesn't change the fact that they were essentially worthless.

Criminals are all about taking advantage of people --- at high risk.

They accept the risk (and cost) of using bitcoin in their niche only as long as they remain confident that suckers will trade real usable currency for them.

They undoubtedly make this trade at the earliest opportunity.