Quote from: gentlemand on February 08, 2020, 11:08:17 AM

So your gist is that you want to do fully legitimate transactions on the darknet? Such as buying your weekly groceries? I thought you meant legitimate in the sense of dodgy site least likely to rape you.

Erm, why?

No one's ever going to bother setting up a market on there for any reason other than avoiding the law. I've had a fiddle with Tor and it was so slow I nearly passed away. If 0.1% of customers will consider a crypto transaction on the open internet maybe 0.00000000001% would try the darknet alternative.

It's a good point. If there's nothing to hide, then it's best to use existent marketplaces on the clearnet. There are too many shady marketplaces on the Darknet which mostly sell illegal stuff. The number of legitimate marketplaces are zero to none. OpenBazaar is a good alternative, though. But it doesn't rely on a privacy-preserving protocol/network like Tor. Not to mention, it uses Zcash where many people have claimed it has a backdoor (which goes against your privacy).

It would've been great to have a marketplace that would rely on the Tor network + Monero for truly private transactions between the buyer and the seller. The only downside would be the lack of a middleman for dispute resolution. I hardly doubt anyone would want to create a marketplace running on the Darknet that would accept Monero as payment method. Most people don't care about privacy when shopping, so this is more of an idea/dream than anything else.

I've wanted to buy/sell items in a completely anonymous way via the Darknet, but I've figured that I'd be losing my time. What I'd do is mix my Bitcoin to use it for OpenBazaar. Combined with a VPN, I'll be able to buy/sell items in the most anonymous way possible. At least, this will work until a truly private solution is designed (ZeroNet maybe?) in the future. Undecided