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Among the other industries finding their home on the Dark Web are mercenaries. A lot of hitmen offer their services on the Deep Web, but you have to get access to some serious cash to hire these professionals. Most hitmen advertise their services that charge the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars. The going rate for a hitman on the Dark Web seems to be around $ 20,000. The general consensus is that if you are looking for a killer for hire, then it is cheaper to find someone in real life and set it that way.
The second consensus seems to be that most of these hitmen are likely scam artists or undercover cops. Unlike the drug trade on the Dark Web, which has many different stories about the services it actually delivers, there are not many stories of people who have successfully hired a hitman. Although I think I will not expect to share with them.
- Dark web has its own currency bitcoin
Of course, none of this illicit commerce could succeed if it was leaving a paper trail, so trade and consumers on the Dark Web had to find an alternative to regular currency. Enter bitcoin. Bitcoin is known as cryptocurrency.
Users create an account and a bitcoin wallet. Transactions are essentially carried out from wallet to wallet. A buyer sends bitcoins from his wallet to the seller's wallet. The transaction codes privately which allows the seller to verify that the buyer's bitcoin is legitimate and has been transferred to their wallet.
Bitcoin is not completely anonymous, but it is as close as you will get when exchanging money. Bitcoin transactions are a matter of public record, but information about the transaction and the user is hidden. Therefore, public records show that bitcoin was sent by 'x' username to 'y' username in the amount of 'z', but none of it can be linked back to an identity or purchased item.
Bitcoins received by sellers can be exchanged for almost any official currency, so it also acts as a universal virtual currency. Users of the Dark web links can exchange bitcoins for all their illegal and illegal purchases and will ensure that their transactions are not detected.