{"id":34134,"date":"2020-12-29T10:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T08:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34134"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:15:04","slug":"major-darknet-market-halts-bitcoin-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/major-darknet-market-halts-bitcoin-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Major darknet market halts Bitcoin payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The darknet marketplace White House Market has halted support for Bitcoin and now accepts payments only in Monero (XMR).<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Largest Darknet Market, White House Market, drops bitcoin support, now only uses monero<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sDd5nAoYjV\">https:\/\/t.co\/sDd5nAoYjV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pnvw4XGyG1\">pic.twitter.com\/pnvw4XGyG1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 No Bullshit Bitcoin (@nobsbitcoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nobsbitcoin\/status\/1343586057368064002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The move was prompted by an &#8216;unexpected blocking of Tor access&#8217;. This was influenced by changes to the MorphToken exchange&#8217;s API, which the darknet marketplace relies on.<\/p>\n<p>In August this year <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/major-darknet-market-goes-offline-exact-cause-remains-unclear\">White House Market became one of the most active darknet marketplaces<\/a> after Empire Market went offline.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, according to Bitfury, the total value in bitcoins earned by darknet actors <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/report-bitcoins-worth-1-4-billion-moved-through-mixers-in-2020\">rose from $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The darknet marketplace White House Market has halted support for Bitcoin and now accepts payments only in Monero (XMR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,477,513],"class_list":["post-34134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-darknet","tag-monero"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34136,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34134\/revisions\/34136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}