It’s a bit like saying that we shouldn’t pay attention to a flourishing new drug cartel because it only represents a small amount of all drug trading worldwide.
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Among all non-trading and mining uses, illicit activity accounts for 26 percent of all blockchain transactions. When you throw in gambling and mixing, the figure goes up to 41%. (This also leaves out illicit activity that Chainalysis can't spot, like tax evasion.)
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Some of the rest is legitimate payments — $1.7 billion last year, acc. to Chainalysis. But when you add that to the $748 billion in drug transactions, drugs could be said to be responsible for 31% of all Bitcoin payments.
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The dollar, meanwhile, enabled around $100 trillion in legal payments last year (acc. to the Fed), so total global drug sales would only account for around .5% of all dollar payments.
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(The dollar also enabled lots of other kinds of transactions, like foreign trade, capital markets activity and lending that have no analogue in the Bitcoin world and that probably make many people more willing to tolerate the illegal transactions.)
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These #'s start to provide a picture of why we write about this. It is not just because the black market stuff is sensational. It is also one of the most steadily growing and interesting experiments in how BTC can be used in the real world.
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It's not the only thing we are going to write about in the crypto realm, but it certainly seems worthy of coverage.
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How many sources do you use for the illicit transactions figure?
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Either you know not as much about bitcoin as I thought you did, or you are misinterpreting their data. Where’s regular bitcoin transactions to and from people on chain? “Exchange” probably means p2p sending not “exchanges” Otherwise nobody uses BTC for any other purpose

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@chainalysis are you actually saying here that over 80% of Bitcoin transactions were sent to and from exchanges?
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What does illicit mean here? E.g. is capital outflow from China? Genuine question. TIA
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