Ask HN: Resources to Enter Darknet Markets?

[mbit8]

Hello HN, i hope that i am not violating the community spirit by asking this.

How would i approach to buy e.g. Weed (which is to be legalized in my country) from a Darknet Market? What are your experiences?

Thanks

[jstx1]

Also, once you find a marketplace, where do you ship stuff to? Your home address? (maybe it's risky, maybe it's not a big deal, I don't know) Or do you pick it up from somewhere? (other kinds of risks with this)

[xtracto]

This is something that I've always wondered from a purely academic pov. All the effort people put in being anonymous online only to have physical stuff shipped to them.

I've read about drop sites: give the address of an empty house or other unpopulated area and then be ready to collect. Maybe rent a po box with fake personal info .

[cipher_system]

Archetyp is a pretty new darknet market that seems solid and ships stuff from and to various places around the world.

You can find much better guides for this but these are the steps:

1. Download TOR Browser

2. Google the address to Archetyp, the url only works in TOR

3. Enter the site and create an account

4. Buy bitcoin or even better monero on for example localbitcoins

5. Transfer the coins to you electrum wallet

6. Transfer the coins from your electrum to the market place

7. Find the stuff you want to buy (best sourced from your country) and buy it to an address you choose.

edit: it struck me that this might not be allowed here, if so I apologise.

[pixxel]

WRT point 2. Googling darknet links is how people get scammed into sending cryptocurrency to fake mirrors.

[alias_neo]

If it was to be legalised, would it not be better all around to buy from sources that will contribute taxes and not towards crime?

Presumably along with the legalisation there will come business opportunities?

I'm not sure what kind of a response you're likely to get here on HN, but it _appears_ on the surface that you're asking for help with something both morally and legally questionable.

[387yq239d]

The harm caused by crime pales in comparison to the harm done by governments using tax money (much of which also indirectly contributes to crime). I would much rather contribute to the average criminal than the average government.

[pixxel]

dark.fail is your friend. Grab and verify the onion url, and bookmark it. It lists current markets. A game of DDoS whack-a-mole.

[weego]

you've mistaken this site for reddit

[fer]

Well, certainly not, because reddit started banned anything linking to darknet markets since +4 years ago.