~ Both markets were protected by Tor and yet servers were located and one of them was made honeypot. An owner of one of the markets had four luxury cars and lot of money so everybody was asking - why keep risking a good life to provide darknet service? BitMixer owners probably asked it themselves and the answer was - it is not worth it anymore.
it is always their own fault for slipping. they do all the security measures for their servers then they use same credentials for their emails in multiple places and leak a lot of their information. i believe that was how they caught them.
Pretty much. They caught the guy from Alpha Bay because he used his personal email in a "welcome email" to new users of Alpha Bay back in 2014. That email included his first name and year of birth, and the authorities later found that he'd used the email for a PayPal account.
The problem is that these markets never expect to get so big, nor do they have so much initial investment. So often their owners and workers are careless in the early days and they give away information that the authorities can start using even years later.
ChipMixer doesn't have millions to put aside to prepare for an influx of users either, which would explain why they're concerned about the recent influx of traffic.
chips you will withdraw now will be created after deposit which is one of the reasons why ChipMixer gives more privacy than other mixers. In this case, due to traffic, we could not offer that to you.
But if the level of traffic
stays high for longer, you'll get back to normal, right?