Bitcoin appears in Epstein’s emails by 2011. Monero doesn’t. Because surveillance money serves power, not freedom.

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Go on any darknet market and you will find either completely monero exclusive markets, or hybrid bitcoin and Monero markets where most vendors accept only Monero. Also D/Opsec in Dread basically says to only use Monero on DNMs. From this we can easily conclude that Monero is a vast majority of darknet transactions.
But they're not used as much as Monero. Monero is used even more than Bitcoin for real world transactions but unlike Bitcoin is completely opaque and untraceable.
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Alright I talk about stats a lot so time to bring in the reciepts (note that I don't have X so these are the latest I can find with search engines): ShopinBit: https://x.com/shopinbit/status/1978715781744472132 69% Monero 28.89% Bitcoin 0.19% Lightning This is literally the tagline on the website, they only mention Bitcoin: "A privacy-first service for ordering anything with Bitcoin & crypto, worldwide. No login or extra verification needed" NanoGPT: https://x.com/NanoGPTcom/status/2007149007286554956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2007149007286554956%7Ctwgr%5Ee2c7e07f527f0d9cb4b05b4fb76f29b0d3f3070c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnano-gpt.com%2Fblog%2F2025-year-in-review-payment-stats 44% Monero 18% Nano 13% Bitcoin Cant really see it doesn't have a number but maybe 1 or 2% lightning Numbers from December. The website is focused on Nano and offers a 5% discount in Nano compared to all over currencies. Monero still dominates. Coincards: https://x.com/CoinCards/status/1709306835126386976 Latest is only from Oct 3,2023 mind you yet we find: 32.82% Bitcoin 32.22% Monero 2.4% Lightning Woohoo Bitcoin wins! Wait by 0.6% on a site focused and advertised with Bitcoin 2 years ago while bitcoin supposedly has 20x the market cap. Curious to see the stats now. From these stats (ignoring even darknet market dominance) I make the assured and certain conclusion that the free market PREFERS Monero as a medium of exchange. I challenge anyone to refute this I'd love to hear counterarguments or counter evidence most importantly.
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