Hey all so it's become clear that the current method of hosting darknet websites is not reliable to circumvent take downs by the FBI and such.
DNMs are reliant on a crucial technology to enable anonymous transactions, cryptocurrencies. But I feel the darknet community as a whole has been neglecting the driving force behind cryptocurrency, Blockchain technology.
There exists blockchains such as SHIFT which make use of IPFS to host static websites, Lisk, and more.
Think about it, a darknetmarket hosted on a blockchain using IPFS. Not only would this make taking down the website supremely hard, it would also make detection of who runs the site harder, and help mitigate opsec screw ups.
We suffered a great loss to the community (Hansa and Alphabay) and I think it's time the community comes together to clean up the mess and change the game.
I truly believe a fully decentralized, anonymous, and take down resistant marketplace could be created using blockchain technology.
We can rid centralized administrators removing exit scam risks by open sourcing and blockchain darknetmarket design and hosting.
Edit:
What I'm proposing is that instead of a website behind made by a single person or small group of people who can do whatever they want is that some sort of committee is established with the sole purpose of designing an open-source darknetmarket running on Blockchain technology.
Until this happens we will continuously face take downs and more. This is the way of the future for darknetmarkets and for the sake of everyone in the DNM community it's time to get started before it's too late
Decenterilzaion needs to happen or else market takeovers like this will continue.