What happened to darkweb and what will the future bring us?

So, I am sure everyone knows about the operation that took place in June and July. Which resulted in Alphabay and Hansa shutting down, and leaving behind yet another victory for law enforcement. Since then we've seen two quickly made marketplaces open, only to later leave together with vendors and users funds.

With the amount of plugins available today it is very easy to build your own marketplace in a few days. You don't even need to have a technical background to do it. This is what bothers me the most, because these scams only happen on the "international" scene. Meanwhile, we can see French, Russian and German marketplaces who has been around for years. Who has had structure from the beginning and who has a development team who knows how to maintain and manage a business.

Agora isn't that far back in time, when will someone with the same vision, skillset and operational knowledge come forth?

Darkweb is quickly leaping towards the end in my opinion, with Grams having announced that they may shut down and right now the left overs is only Dream marketplace. One can say what they wish about them, but personally I would not conduct any business there.


Comments


[16 Points] None:

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[4 Points] Joskins:

Dark times have descended, but take heart. It's not even near over, and I don't think it will be until drugs are legalized. There is just too much money to be made for the scene to be so fucked up for an extremely long time.

I think future centralized marketplaces (these will dominate in market share for a long time) should ban fentanyl and fentanyl analogs for their own self preservation. It also needs to be made clear that normal customers don't want to buy from markets which allow fent sales.

One can say what they wish about [Dream], but personally I would not conduct any business there.

I wouldn't and don't either.


[4 Points] MassAppeal_UK:

Once the OB2 community matures and monero is adopted a bit more then it will be another hay day for us. Mark these words.


[4 Points] Chipklaatu:

With the amount of plugins available today it is very easy to build your own marketplace in a few days.

A marketplace that will be taken down within months*


[3 Points] None:

Divide and Conquer


[3 Points] None:

I think before long, all markets will become strictly invite based like TMG or CGMC, but until then we will get the same old same old- market comes, market gets LE'd to fuck or gets smart and exit scams, rinse and repeat.


[4 Points] gangsterdam020:

The European markets aren't flooded with Fent and co, that's why they exist for so long with little waves.


[1 Points] MandyThatGirl:

A sharp poke in the eye with a stick.


[1 Points] HODLLLLLLLLLL:

I think someone needs to make a good site for a database for (legit) DD vendors.

For example, you go to ddsitesDOTonion. You search for what you want and ONLY verified legit dd shops can be shown. (How they get on the site could be a number of ways)

Site acting only as a database and/OR maybe somehow assisting with escrow (multisig?)

I can't hash out all the details as it's just a line of thought as how many the dnm could progress.