Figure 1
From: Emergence and structure of decentralised trade networks around dark web marketplaces

Ego and full networks. (a) Schematic representation of an ego network surrounding a dark web marketplace (“DWM”, in red). The DWM interacts with its users (“U”, in black). User-to-user (U2U) pairs are represented by arrows (direction indicates the flow of Bitcoin) and by their respective users. (b) Multiple ego networks may be aggregated to form the full network.