Dark marketplaces are very popular right at the moment i dont undrstand why they are so popular because i know also that dark market places are also a scamm some times so pick the right one and not the one who are scamming.
well, dark market has been popular since bitcoin birth. since then, a lot of dark market that emerged in deepweb mainly Silk Road, and today it is still there. although many dark market that could be a scam, however, I think it will never stop others to conduct transactions in the dark market, because only there undertaking illegal items