My friend and I are 5th year computer science students and considering launching our own dark net market.
We are aware there are already a couple of well put together and professional markets like agora and evolution, but ours would be a little different, in that we would be a lot less involved.
By this I mean that the market would be pretty much between the vendor and buyer, with very little protections put in place for either party. This would have the downside that it may allow for scamming, but the upside that we could charge virtually zero fees.
The market would be designed so that minimal funds are stored on site, and at checkout funds are sent directly from the customers bitcoin wallet to an intermediary address where they would be mixed and then forwarded to the sellers external address.
Really the only advantage of our market over working with a vendor offsite is it would allow people to find what they need in an organized environment, and to leave feedback. Like I said though, there really wouldn't be much support except for technical issues since we don't exactly have a support staff. We would have essentially no involvement when it comes to vendor/customer relations, except to remove vendors that are obviously scamming.
The only fees however would be a $50 or so vendor registration fee to avoid spam (with free reg for established vendors).
Another idea we had was for a 2 party multisgnature escrow, where both the buyer/seller would have to agree to release funds to one party (we would not participate), but one party could put in a request and if it wasn't challenged in 5 days or so the funds would be released.
Anyways, if there would actually be any interest in another market, we're both pretty experienced and are looking for another project.
TLDR: thinking about creating another market with ~0 fees but also limited protections
Been there.
Wow! There is no market with this feature.
Sounds promising! No support. no resolution.
So innovative!
FTFY - "Thinking about creating a market that will be an automatic money machine for me while i dont give a shit about scammers and the benefit of my users"