Table 2 Nomenclature.
From: Emergence and structure of decentralised trade networks around dark web marketplaces
Group | Description | Number of users | |
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Users who do not form stable U2U pairs | Users that either interact only with DWMs or form not stable U2U pairs | 15,871,206 |
2. | Users who form stable U2U pairs | Users who form at least one stable U2U pair as detected by our chosen metholodogy31 | 106,648 |
2a. | Users who met outside DWMs | Users that form stable pairs and met at least one other user following the chain of events in Table 1 (first two columns) | 88,828 |
2b. | Users who met inside a DWM | Users that form stable pairs and met at least one other user following the chain of events in Table 1 (last column) | 37,129 |
