I
am releasing all my DNM scrapes: a 50GB (~1.6TB) collection covering 89
DNMs & 37+ related forums, representing <4,438 mirrors.
It can be downloaded as a torrent; for some torrent clients, the torrent may not work for various reasons, in which case you can download everything directly from the IA. But for all the other details, see my writeup on the contents.
A quick overview of what is covered:
Markets:
- 1776, Abraxas, Agape, Agora, Alpaca, AlphaBay, Amazon Dark, Anarchia, Andromeda, Area51, Armory, Atlantis
- BlackBank Market, Black Goblin, BlackMarket Reloaded, Black Services
Market, Bloomsfield, Blue Sky Market, Breaking Bad, bungee54, BuyItNow
- Cannabis Road 1, Cannabis Road 2, Cannabis Road 3, Cantina, Cloud9, Crypto Market / Diabolus,
- DarkBay, Darklist, Darknet Heroes, DBay, Deepzon, Doge Road, Dream Market, Drugslist
- East India Company, Evolution, FreeBay, Freedom Marketplace, Free Market, GreyRoad, Havana/Absolem, Haven, Horizon, Hydra
- Ironclad, Kiss, Middle Earth, Mr Nice guy 2, Nucleus, Onionshop, Outlaw Market, Oxygen
- Panacea, Pandora, Pigeon, Pirate Market, Poseidon, Project Black Flag
- Sheep, Silk Road 1, Silk Road 2, Silk Road Reloaded (I2P), Silkstreet, Simply Bear
- The BlackBox Market, The Majestic Garden, The Marketplace, The
RealDeal, Tochka, TOM, Topix 2, TorBay, TorBazaar, TorEscrow, TorMarket,
Tortuga 2
- Underground Market, Utopia, Vault43, White Rabbit, Zanzibar Spice
Forums:
- Abraxas, Agora, Andromeda, Black Market Reloaded, BlackBank Market, bungee54, Cannabis Road 2, Cannabis Road 3
- DarkBay, Darknet heroes, Diabolus, Doge Road, Evolution, Gobotal, GreyRoad, Havana/Absolem, Hydra, Kingdom, Kiss
- Mr Nice Guy 1, Nucleus, Outlaw Market, Panacea, Pandora, Pigeon, Project Black Flag, Revolver
- Silk Road 1, Silk Road 2
- TOM, The Cave, The Hub, The Majestic Garden, The RealDeal, TorEscrow, TorBazaar, Tortuga 1
- Underground Market, Unitech, Utopia
Miscellaneous:
- Assassination Market
- Cryuserv
- DNM-related documents (primarily the Ross Ulbricht trial evidence exhibits)
- DNStats
- Grams
- Pedofunding
- SR2doug's leaks
I hope it will be useful.
In other news, I am stepping down on /r/DarkNetMarkets
mod. I have been planning to do so since the beginning of the year, but
I wanted to finish up some big DNM projects before I cut more ties: the
first was my arrests/bust compilation and the second is this, releasing the full scrape archive which I've been working on for years.
I'm no longer as interested in the DNMs as I used to be. I was
originally lured in by the fascination of watching a small cryptopunk
revolution, and I was hopeful that it would go beyond the SR1 model into
multisig and beyond. But we have seen little multisig usage, and that
augurs ill for the distributed marketplaces. (What if someone built a
trustless distributed blackmarket and no one wanted to use it?) Instead,
the SR1 business model has proven remarkably durable despite the
constant wearying turmoil of exit-scams and hacks and as I write this in
mid-July 2015, there seems to be little chance that things will change
substantially soon. (If Tor hidden services are cracked, the DNMs will
simply move to I2P or Freenet; if Bitcoin starts getting too easily
tracked, transactions will be settled in Monero or another cryptocoin
with better anonymity properties, etc.) So I'd like to stop investing so
much energy into monitoring DNMs, which includes stopping my scrapes
and stepping down as moderator.
The exact timing owes something to the LE attention on me; as
unpleasant as the ICE subpoena was, I was almost as disturbed by the
subsequent Coinbase persecution of people who had done little but donate
some Bitcoin to me. (And more recently, an order of some electronics
from China arrived with the box open and the packaging so loosely taped
one could get one's finger inside it; this could have simply
been lazy packing or caused by squishing en route, but on the other
hand, international packages at the border have few or no protections so
it would be easy to flag a particular name for closer inspection...) I
would have liked to finish up earlier, actually, but it's taken a lot of
effort to get the archive into a releasable state (just uploading the
52GB to the IA took ~3 days on my connection).
I did not do much in the way of day to day moderation on /r/DNM,
so there will be little observable change; the current mod team minus
me will be pretty much the same as it was before. I also will probably
continue to comment, offer advice, or post from time to time when
something interesting comes up; at some point, I would like to finish my
overview of proposed distributed market systems from a DNM perspective,
and try correlating DNM downtime against the Bitcoin exchange rate.
But otherwise, I am mostly done.
Posting this archive will be my last action as DNM moderator.
It's a good archive, I think.
Sorting through it, I refound a lot of things I'd forgotten: the BMR
mods chatting on Pastebin about one of them being arrested, unaware that
Dutch police were watching them and tapping all their phones and they
would be going to jail for years in weeks/months, taking down Utopia
with them; Backopy bristling at my criticisms of BMR security while
preparing to take down BMR for being insecure; Ross and Rene at
StoryTime, totally high, talking about Julia (possibly neither of them
will ever see Ross again as he's sent to prison in Virginia for life)
and Ross's twitter making an attempt at technical analysis of Bitcoin
exchange rates (he sounds competent, but it's rather undermined by how
the Mtgox leaks showed he sold off a huge amount of bitcoins not long
before Bitcoin made some of its biggest gains ever) and his drawings
(totally psychedelic); my crawls of The Marketplace, which never got the
credit it deserved for pioneering multisig and tends to be left out of
the post-SR1 story; the evidence that Sheep was run by Tomas Jirikovský,
which I got so much shit for releasing; all the markets with funny
themes like Area51 and Absolem and - of course! - Breaking Bad; even the
worst markets like Black Goblin are still amusing to think back on; the
Ulbricht trial exhibits where they forgot to redact both
copies of information and so wound up leaking information about
Force/Bridges and enabling some journalists to ransack DPR's email
accounts (they never did release all of what they found, the greedy
bastards); and photos of drugs, of every sort, from every market and
vendor, drugs you didn't know existed or were still made, etc etc...
All these and more I give you.
I give you back your memories.
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