have you anons been following the developments in the dark net recently?
the basic gestalt: law enforcement around the world appears to have teamed up and launched a blitzkrieg on darknet operators, shutting down all major players include dream and wall street(2 biggest drug) and Law enforcement has put so much heat on other sites that they've got scared and exit scammed or just shut down altogether.
There is also a bug in TOR that makes DDOS'ing easy for someone who appears to be blackmailing everyone possible. So basically the darknet is an empty void right now after - leaving its future, and the billion dollar black markets up in the air.
Something always fills market demands. What exactly is going on? Are those markets shut down? Is there no where to buy illegal items now? --sorry for noob question, not into darknet markets but find it interesting
Lucas Ramirez
Decentralized markets made possible by DLT, could take some time as everyone seems to be really altruistic in the space rn but as the tech becomes more accessible the criminal world will not hesitate to implement it
Hudson Adams
The CIA has basically announced that they control over 51% of the TOR network. We will soon probably see some crypto p2p markets come up.
Jaxson Jackson
not sure how that would work with physical deliveries, those will always be the weak point of any clandestine markets
Grayson Miller
how the fuck am i supposed to get my benzos know riiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee
Juan Allen
the weak point was always the hosting. the delivery may be the weak point for the receiver. pro-tip, start using amazon.
Justin Hall
Interesting. Something will replace them but unsure what.
Joshua White
Gonna need a bit more info about this chief
Gabriel Brown
This is a subtle Monero shill isnt it?
Brayden King
from what i understand - things have been running relatively smoothly in the darknet markets for the last few years, and operators became very complacent making child tier security mistakes leading to easy arrests. this coupled with the DDOS vulnerability has totally crippled the dark web.
>pro-tip, start using amazon. can you give us more on this
Owen Sanchez
Tor was funded by US military interests, it’s very likely been compromised and was very likely designed as a way of undermining totalitarian and authoritative regimes, and not designed to enable privacy centric browsing habits in first world countries. There are plenty of markets that are invite only, in fact there are some “markets” that dont even have a .onion, anything else that springs up to replace the big honey pots that went down recently are also more honey pots.
Gavin Smith
Is that how these markets keep getting ganked? What if they built a smart contract powered delivery network?
