4 ms·
I think it's an exaggeration to say "you couldn't throw a stone without coming upon CP". It was on every single Hidden Wiki at the time.. it _was_ everywhere,
by TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
I think it's an exaggeration to say "you couldn't throw a stone without coming upon CP".
It was on every single Hidden Wiki at the time.. it _was_ everywhere, and commonly linked to from sites like 4chan.
other drug marketplaces pop up
Sure, but nothing like the Silk Road. In a winner-take-all market like the online marketplace market, you would expect a top dog to emerge.
When did you do your research? The difference I noticed began late 2012.
- GordonS 6y agoIt was post Silk Road that I started reading researching - I forget exactly, but may around 2015/2016? There were huge markets after Silk Road, though admittedly I don't know how size compared to Silk Road (e.g. AlphaBay, Agora, Nucleus, Hansa).
- qes 6y agoAlphaBay was like 10x the size of the original Silk Road. DNM's haven't been the same since the busts of AlphaBay and Hansa in close succession.
- Taek 6y agoCan corroborate, 2012 is when I stopped using Tor for anonymity because a lot of busts happened all in a row. Every bust had some sort of Silk Road style clearnet mistake associated with it, but parallel construction felt like the real answer. A bunch of sites that had been fine for years don't suddenly all make tiny fatal mistakes at the same time. I'm sure any operators that didn't get busted realized the heat had showed up and chose to shut down. When you are facing 20 years in jail you don't need hard evidence that Tor is broken to decide to walk away.