> These are NOT dnms and he knows it

They are per the definition used by law enforcement and by wikipedia. If you've got a strange stricter definition of "it only counts if drugs are widely sold there," that's a you-problem

> These onion services have completely different threat assessments than a DNM

Nope. They have very similar threat assessments, for the following reason:

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/paxful-inc-co-founder-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-fail-maintain-effective-anti-money-laundering

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when Robosats does ANYWHERE near the volume paxful was doing

then you can talk about similar threat models.

not before.

right now, nobody in LE gives a shit about any of the sites you mentioned.

and for real

shopstr does essentially zero volume. trying to tout it as a successful use of LN in an adversarial environment is totally ridiculous.

but you dont actually care about giving users useful information do you?

> when Robosats does ANYWHERE near the volume paxful was doing

then you can talk about similar threat models. not before.

If they did not apply the threat model when small, then the operators' personal information would be compromised before they get big.

> shopstr does essentially zero volume

Where are you getting those statistics?