Aero market launches at convenient time

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During all the ddos attacks on Zion, TradeRoute, Tochka, etc, it looks like a new market launched at the perfect time, with a rather nice UI.

Has anyone poked around in this place at all? Their go to market strategy and execution so far has been pretty flawless. Making a couple assumptions but hear me out on the draft timeline

A couple questions that come to mind..

Thoughts??


Comments


[12 Points] AeroMarket:

Hi,

We're glad to see people being sceptical, it's as we would expect and actually hope, because you can't trust anyone or any market's claims. We've put a lot of work into the market and I actually contacted the subreddit Moderators personally around a year ago now when we were first starting work to get a grasp of all of the requirements for the Superlist.

This market is something we have put a lot of time and effort into and as mentioned in the announcement, we have held off from launching to ensure we can learn from past mistakes of admins, how servers were discovered and also the downfalls that can occur for vendors and buyers due to how the market functions, for example auto-encrypt, which saw a drastic outcome with the Hansa takeover.

We have timed it pretty badly with the DDOS attacks and expected to be blamed for it, but had started our approval post process with the Mods before it began and we also waited until the attacks stopped to announce, to make sure it wasn't then directed at us immediately and affected our launch. We did sustain a suspected attack not long after the announcement was posted which lasted ~1 hour, which we was able to mitigate with little to no outages, it then stopped all of a sudden.

I think the positive feedback is based mostly on our security features, enforcing 2-FA, encrypted shipping addresses, tracking details and the option for vendors to only accept encrypted messages.

Our ideals and principles towards the open trade of controlled substances are our basis for running a black market and we feel anonymity is key at this point in time to do so.

As far as our team size goes, it does not really add any extra liabilities come in to play. We're a close-knit team who have been in contact before all of this as well as taking on a few extra staff in the last year. We make a point of following specific protocols for verification of identity and certain access is only granted where it absolutely must. The bright side of a "large" team, is that it is a lot easier to handle tasks and manage the market, mainly support tickets. Whilst also having multiple developers on hand we can provide fixes to any bugs immediately.

Please feel free to contact us directly with any further questions you may have via Reddit, Aero Market or our forums.

Aero Team.


[6 Points] basjin:

this post is ridiculous

sort your 'facts' before you post any fud thing twice.

and take less of the drug you are on right now. and go back to school.


[1 Points] Crowfeather1999:

Fud


[1 Points] CookyDough:

Is my conspiracy theory about Aero Markets go to market strategy far fetched?

I wouldn't say so. It might not be like that though. It could be the feds DDOSing, trying to probe markets and fuck with them. They've done that multiple times in the past against markets.


[1 Points] cowboy55z:

Looking for a invite to aero


[0 Points] None:

Honestly...

They seem to have addressed a few general security problems that I don't think people were having. Notably the PIN pad to prevent keylogging (not heard of a case on here of somebody being keylogged).

Users harp on here about mandatory GPG, no auto-encrypt, multisig and Monero only which makes it very hard for Joe Blow to sign up and make a purchase. Each layer of friction you add to your site in the name of security is another 1000 users that will give up in frustration and just use markets that don't care about security.

But hey at least your search works unlike TradeRoutes (seriously I search MDMA on there and the results miss listings with MDMA in the title...).

Most markets die a death. You're fighting 3 well established markets. The only chance you will get a foothold is if one of these comes crashing down. Dream's lifetime suggests that won't happen to them soon. TradeRoute have minimal security issues (bar the 100k theft).


[0 Points] HotPlateD:

Who even use Sourcery and Zion? Everybody is onto Dream and Traderoute.

My assumption: Aero is made by the same people who made Agora. They promised to come back one day and Aero seems to have the best security features just like Agora had. Thoughts on this?