So I was checking in on the various marketplaces, and it seems that Tortuga has been having problems - neither http://tortugauwngwecwd.onion/ nor http://tforummidhcusvox.onion/ loads for me. (It doesn't spit out an instant error message, just idles for a very long time and finally errors out; all the other forums and markets load fine.)
In fact, checking my logs, the last time I was able to get into Tortuga and its forums was back in 1 January, but it was down on the 9th, and I haven't been able to get in either when trying on the 15th, 16th, and today the 17th. (Or the 18th, although the connections errored out much faster today.)
I searched around for discussions, but I've found no mentions of its current status on SRF2, The Hub, BMR forums, or Reddit - not even complaints that someone lost their coins to it.
So what's up with Tortuga? Are they having really long technical difficulties, pulled a rip-and-run, shut down gracefully, or what?
Thx for the update.
The Mod Team have a hard time to try to follow all the different DarkMarkets evolution, i must say i haven't seen that for the moment, your help to stay updated is welcome...:)
I heard a lot that the site was very buggy, but i must say i haven't used it too much myself.
I totally agree with you, i don't find bad reports about them from users that would have been ripped off, but i must say i haven't seen a lot of reviews of users using Tortuga anyway...
If you happen to find more news about that it would be great if you can keep us updated, we will perhaps take them off the sidebar if it is confirmed that they are closed and Down definitely.