Table 1 Formation mechanism of stable U2U pairs.

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

  1. We compare the time at which the first transaction between a pair of users occurred with the time in which these users interacted with the same DWM. Each row in the figure indicates a possible temporal sequence, which we classify in two groups: users who met outside the DWM (first two columns) and users who met inside the DWM (last column).