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Never looked at it myself, think is quite small. But there are plenty of dark net markets that aren't Silk Road. Since Silk Road 2 was taken down by the feds (sometime last year, around 6-9 months ago I think) the first to look like the biggest was Agora, then Evolution quickly became the most popular due to its nicer functionality (and nicer design), and the fact that Agora often has short periods of downtime due to server load. Evolution disappeared a few weeks ago, seemingly the owner(s) decided to "exit scam" - i.e. shut down with no warning and steal all BTC stored in the site by vendors/buyers, thought to be worth $8m (plus whatever profit they made from commission in the previous year). Since then it has been assumed that Agora will take the top spot, however it has had very bad availability with long periods of the site going down, I believe they've publicly said this is due to the influx of Evolution users and that they are working on improving their site infrastructure. The two biggest down sides to Agora are that they don't offer Multisig support (see below), and that their site design/functionality is pretty nasty. Their upside is that they have the most vendors on there, so the best range of drugs to buy. I believe (though could be wrong, it's been a while since I've been on there) they don't allow vendors to sell fraud/etc. related items, so stuff like Uber accounts wouldn't be allowed on there. Not sure on that, though. There's plenty of other markets too though, ranging in size and pros/cons - a basic list can be found at https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/wiki/superlist Right now there's a lot of uncertainty around regarding which markets to trust, how long they'll last, etc. Side note on multisig: what this is is basically a three-way escrow. Traditionally dark net markets offered either "finalize early" (vendor gets your BTC as soon as you order) or "escrow" (website stores the BTC until customer is happy to release to vendor, or until the site admins have to decide who to give them to in the case of a dispute). Multisig means that two out of the three parties (site, vendor, buyer) must agree before the BTC gets released to anyone. So this would prevent markets from doing what Evolution did (stealing all the money in escrow), as if they shut down with no warning then any outstanding deals could still be finalised between buyer and vendor (2 out of 3). However, Evolution was actually one of (if not the) first markets to introduce multisig as an option, and nearly everyone was too lazy to figure out how to use it. Most talk since then is along the lines of "we should all be using multisig all the time", yet I still haven't seen any signs of that happening... Anyway, this reply is way longer than you actually asked about, I just think the world of dark net markets is pretty interesting :) |