EDIT: Conclusion - they scammed, AGAIN, not seized
http://andromedam363aux.onion/
Scam indications:
It gets the seized banner and 2 minutes later someone mails me that the market was just seized. And yeah i do remember this thread
A vendor sends this info:
- Orders could be paid for the usual way up til about a week ago.
- Then mid week - u saw a new web page note saying that "deposits arent necessary. Pay for ur order at checkout directly to a wallet!"
- When users finalized orders on the last few days, the withdrawals would not work for vendors.
- Somebody on forum then claimed they found a trick to allow them to basically send coins from their and wallet to the premium vendor upgrade wallet address which would then in turn allow the vendor wallet to function again.
- I dont know that number 4 is true for sure - but next day, the trick became impossible to try because vendor wallets and buyer wallets were simply gone from view so everybody had 0 coins at that stage and a new andromeda wallet addy associated with their acct.
- At that stage, u could then lookup ur andromeda original wallet on blockchain and u saw the coins being systematically emptied into a particular single address (30 bitcoins or so but was still ticking away upon last check). Can send u the address if u want it.
- U also saw vendor profiles being updated to say "do not place orders or deposit coins here! Scam warning!". But then the next day, theyd be rolled back to look like vendor was open for business. Listings too going from disabled to reenabled.
^ The above was not verified yet, but it sounds pretty similar to the things that went down with Sheep, Pandora & The pirate market before they executed their exit scam.
Another support for the scam theory - here
This market been trough several incarnations: Darkbay = Ultravioletcity = Silk Road 3 (past) = Andromeda = Diabolus = Silk Road 3 (current) (From my list changelog: 15.4.14 - Changed SilkRoad 3 name to Andromeda) - All had the same code and design (the first 4 were even official incarnations of each other)
Link to Gwern for another proof that Andromeda used to be called Silk road 3
The Final nail
100% sure a scam from the admins. Beware - the admins of diabolous/sr3 are the same people for obvious reasons (same file names, same "code", same design to name a few).