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Re: Legitimate Darknet Marketplaces which Accept Bitcoin?
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bryant.coleman
on 07/02/2020, 06:08:17 UTC
Quote from: gentlemand on February 06, 2020, 11:05:44 PM
They're all trustworthy until they're not.

Maybe the oldest and biggest still going is Hydra, a Russian one. They're the cheeky chappies who recently proposed an ICO.

https://www.coindesk.com/russias-largest-darknet-market-is-hawking-an-ico-to-fund-global-expansion

r/darkmarkets used to be the place to keep abreast of them but that was shut down. This looks like the closest equivalent but a bit more general - https://www.reddit.com/r/darknet/

This too - https://www.darknetstats.com 

These Russians are always overconfident. They have managed to stay alive for so many years. Now what is the need for them to go for a global expansion? They should stay under the radar or the FBI. Even earlier, there were a number of Russian dark markets which managed to stay alive for many years. Some of them tried to expand into the United States and that was when they got whacked.

Even the BTC-e exchange was going strongly, when the US authorities wanted them to conduct KYC for the American users. The BTC-e guys bragged that they are not going to do any KYC and challenged the American authorities. Their exchange got nuked in a few weeks. Even after that these guys didn't stopped provoking the Americans. They came online with Wex.nz and once again challenged the Americans. And this time the FBI finished them off permanently and put Alexander Vinnik behind bars for the rest of his life.