Way lower? Are you sure? I would like to see the hard data on that. You can find the data on the legal stuff but how are you sure the data you saw from the darknet are accurate? Where did you get the data when you made the comparison please post them in the thread and we can continue the discussion.

I guess it was just a small part!
Think about the last major scams out and how much it affects the market  It's not entirely on how people as Bitcoin user would do something like
It depends on the behavior of people

it depends on how we use it. we use money for value exchange for paying value for anything good or bad so its doesn't  make bitcoin responsible for illegal transaction bitcoin is also used of many good causes also like donation and NGO so we cant neglect bitcoin and we cant blame it as responsible for encouraging illegal transaction

it is just like when you give a knife to someone, he will determine whether he will use the knife to cut fish to eat, or to kill people. and we are talking about bitcoin as a currency that can buy both legal and illegal things, can support you to do legal and illegal things. so it will depend how wise the owner to use it.

People resort to use bitcoin like a payment method to buy illegal stuff, because it's more secure and you can't track people with these transactions. No one can disallow that people cannot buy illegal thing by cash, but the problem, It's so risky. so they do that with cryptocurrency, Especially bitcoin.
As we see, in the darknet marketplace we found all stuff sold with bitcoin. There is nothing with real money.
By the way, I don't like this idea about bitcoin, We need to use bitcoin for a good thing not for doing a bad  things or buying drugs etc..

See the thing with cryptocurrencies is that the only time they really get the big news coverage is when they're discussing things being bought with drugs online, like the first time me and my friends ever heard about bitcoin was when Silk Road was taken down and they were talking about this online anonymous cryptocurrency.

They really painted bitcoin in a horrible light and never fully discussed it's use in this online marketplace and how it eliminates the the need of being scared about a chargeback or anything like that. But I guess that's just what the media does these days, highlight what they can in order to get the right amount of views and just ignore the plain ole' facts.