Why are there no new markets popping up?

Back in 2013-2014 after SR went offline I remember so many new markets popping up looking to become the next big thing or bring important changes to the Darknet (multi-sig, forced encryption..etc). But in the last half year it has all quieted down. Just two main markets and a bunch of very small ones which really don't seem to be going anywhere.

Does the majority of the community really find it better to have most of the Darknet listings, vendors and escrow funds on two giant markets rather than to diversify it through several markets? Or is it just about the vendors searching the biggest market for the most sales potential?

I don't hope it will happen anytime soon, but if any of the bigger markets goes down it will be very interesting to see how the community will react and how this market will be replaced. I really do miss C9, TMP, CR and the days when Sheep and SR1 where still in their glory days.


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[28 Points] deezyyyy:

Maybe now that everybody's about to watch Ross go to prison for life they're a little scared...


[11 Points] dilirio25:

This is why although I dislike carding, I like the fact that Evo evolved from a carding forum. I'm sure its been attempted to be stopped by now, and the fact that it hasnt gives me hope the guy who runs it isnt keeping a diary of all his illegal dealings.


[12 Points] youtakesally:

We're on a dead end:

  1. The markets we have work quite well. I don't think a new market would be seen as more efficient/stable/reliable than Evo and Agora. Also, the fees must be reasonable, otherwise competition would arise.

  2. There's room for innovation, but nobody cares for it. A lot of users don't even use PGP, let alone multi-sig or other currencies (Forcing PGP, multi-sig or adopting other currencies would be some features a new market could implement, among others).

  3. Decentralized markets are coming, and that will probably will take a huge cut off centralized markets. Maybe the big ones will stay, but I wouldn't be programing a market if I know that those are around the corner.


[9 Points] thisismyDNMthrowaway:

The Rule of Two doctrine, was the guiding principle of the Order of the Sith Lords DNMs after the internecine New Sith Wars Silk Road shutdowns. It replaced the practices of Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness Ulbricht.

The Rule of Two was instituted by Darth Bane Varsity Jones, once a student at Kaan's Sith academy Kahn academy, in response to what he viewed as inevitable, self-destructive infighting within the SithSilk Order. The Rule of Two states that there would be only two Sith DNMs at one time, a Master and an Apprentice, guaranteeing that when the Apprentice becomes powerful enough in the ways of the dark net market side to take the title of Master, only then would they be worthy of the title. This transfer of power would only take place when the Apprentice takes their Master's life and finds a worthy student to repeat the cycle. Both Master and Apprentice were considered to be Sith Lords Libertarian Gods.

The practice survived with varying levels of enforcement for a thousand years until the murder of Darth Tenebrous Redandwhite at the hands of his apprentice in 2013— Darth Plagueis Dread Pirate Roberts held the doctrine in contempt, and intended to live forever together with his own apprentice, Darth Sidious Blake Benthall. Although the latter murdered his master in accordance with the Rule of Two and trained apprentices of his own, never more than one at the same time, he did not fully accept it, following instead his own Rule of One.]

Disclaimer: Kinda phoned it in around half-way.


[6 Points] CocaineNose:

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[3 Points] freemarket_oracle:

The Free Market is a new market that takes a different approach.

Decentralized markets are coming, but this only shifts some of the risks and introduces other new risks.


[3 Points] None:

Signed in to say I was a huge fan of the CR for however long it was running. The forums were friendly and it worked relatively well until the "hack."

I am not actually sure if the hack actually took place or someone ran away with the coins, but I would be a big fan of a cannabis only DNM.


[3 Points] throwaway2341325432:

I would think finding servers to host marketplaces isn't that common so starting a bunch of new marketplaces all on the same couple of servers willing to host them really isn't more secure than only having Agora and Evo. There have been rumors that Evo and Agora are both hosted in Russia outside the reach of murica's LE.

I really miss c9 and CR too. c9 was so user friendly it was insane. Lots of quality small time vendors on there with not much scamming even though there was no vendor bond.

The next big thing to me will be decentralized if its really gonna work.


[2 Points] sullyrb:

they aren't needed


[1 Points] Mrg13:

Maybe people feel there is to much risk in making one, as well as the fact that it would be hard to get people to use it and trust it. How do you know it's not a honey pot?


[1 Points] procowtipper:

Discontent is the lever of change. Herego, the two main markets will remain dominant until the feds intervene at some point. All the competition in one market is what drives the prices down.


[1 Points] samwhiskey:

Vendors need to look into decentralized markets like the syscoin blockchain market idea. See /r/syscoin.


[1 Points] None:

The only marketplace I miss is TMP. TMP + Darkcoin would be my dream market.


[1 Points] TollyOnDank:

I thought the newer and lamer markets were controlled by LE. I miss BlueSky though


[1 Points] throwaway:

People are realizing that by itself, halfway good crypto is inadequate protection.


[1 Points] ohman1988:

takes alot of time to code up a market... There will be more as other go down.


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] thugznharmony:

Fed..