Abacus Market is a reliable and smaller darknet market that is slightly over a year old well known for its listings of drugs and chemicals. It might not have “all” the feature you or I wish for, but as far as darknet markets are concerned, Alphabay is just as good as it gets. 2 Factor Authentications – It’s optional for buyers/users to enable 2FA for added security, while it’s mandatory for vendors. PGP Encryption – They support PGP encryption both for buyers as well as sellers. Alphabay was one of the original darknet market place but was taken offline when the domain was seized in 2017.

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The command post was the central hub for information exchange during the AlphaBay operation. “Thailand seizes $21 million in assets from dead founder of dark net marketplace AlphaBay”. “Suspected AlphaBay founder dies in Bangkok jail after shutdown of online black market”.

After inputting your password twice, select a 6-digit PIN for purchases. Select “User” as your account type, enter the captcha, and then click “Register” to complete the registration process. If all goes well, you directly go to the login screen, where you may enter your new username and password.

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• The platform was shutdown in 2017 by authorities during Operation Bayonet but they were unable to capture many of the staff members including its co-founder and security administrator DeSnake.
• The system has been in development for 2 years with countless tests and has had a standalone testing period of 1 year+ where it ran on its own.
• It is the marketplace which introduced most features you see today on other places such as sticky listing, featured listings, autoshops, monero as a payment, PGP-signed addresses, shared account access for vendors and so on.
• All of these features could be enough to call it a decent marketplace.
• Freebies, such as pharmaceuticals for pennies, are already being offered by vendors.
• Over time I tried to deal with the situation as I had seen many arrests of people in the game for over 20 years some with fatal fates but never one where a person was killed in custody by Law Enforcement.

The system, which has been in development for nearly two years, has had a standalone testing period of over a year and so far, so good. DeSnake says, according to part of the PGP message he signed, that the reason for returning is not only the poor state of the DNM scene. But other reasons include the lack of quality and professional marketplaces. He says that his main aim is leaving a legacy behind which is worthy of the ‘AlphaBay’ name and one which alpha02 would be proud of. Anybody who knew the original AlphaBay Market will agree that it was arguably one of a kind. So it’s not surprising that many darknet fans have been wishing for the particular marketplace to get revamped again.

“The biggest reason I am returning is to make the AlphaBay name be remembered as more than the marketplace which got busted and the founder made out to have committed suicide,” DeSnake writes. Cazes was found dead of an apparent suicide in a Thai jail cell a week after his arrest; like many in the dark web community, DeSnake believes Cazes was murdered in prison. He was driven to rebuild AlphaBay, he says, after reading about an FBI presentation on the circumstances of Cazes’ arrest that he deemed disrespectful. “AlphaBay name was put in bad light after the raids. I am here to make amends to that.”

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To avoid the risk of his PC being grabbed while he’s logged in to AlphaBay, DeSnake says he also shuts it down entirely every time he steps away from it, even to take a bathroom break. “Biggest issue in that regard is the human needs … I would say that is the biggest inconvenience,” DeSnake writes. “You make sacrifices. Though once you get used to it, it becomes second nature.” In connection with the AlphaBay investigation, on July 5, police in Thailand arrested Canadian citizen Alexandre Cazes, 26, operating on an arrest warrant issued June 30 at the request of U.S. authorities, the Bangkok Post reported.

Second to all the previous AlphaBay users buyers and sellers alike who believed in us and support us throughout. Ideally the decentralized network would be up making any LE near impossible to actually disrupt operations. Third to all who keep silent and refuse to cooperate when LE asking, we saw who are real and who rolled over visible from the given sentences. Last I dedicate this to all people who finish something when they start it and keep their promises regardless of the situation.

After nearly a year back online, though, DeSnake says he feels “vindicated,” given that few if any undercover operations have lasted that long. “For majority of vendors and customers the question has been put to rest,” DeSnake says. Ased on law enforcement’s investigation of AlphaBay, authorities believe the site was also used to launder hundreds of millions of dollars deriving from illegal transactions on the website. “AlphaBay sold drugs, guns and hacking tools online — until a sting operation shut it down”.

ScamWatch is back so the most active users which help report scams and keep the marketplace clean can become part of it. ScamWatch will continue to have the same functions guarding users from scams, catching scams in their tracks, ensuring listings are truthful and vendors stick to their refund policies, review reports and relay important information to Staff etc. To increase drugs safety usage within AlphaBay as well as availability of more ‘pure products’, ScamWatch has a new extended function, through undisclosed methods and techniques, making sure vendor products are what they claim they are and are not fake/laced with fentanyl etc. Administration is the same as before but all staff members have been replaced for security reasons. Trusted members have been chosen to be moderators, people which I have verified through business dealings over many years.

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The “Roadmap” page talks about a darknet market that isn’t controlled by anyone. Just like any other darknet platform, it isn’t clear who runs the site, but it has been around since 2014. Cazes , the site’s founder and administrator, took his own life during his extradiction to the United States.

Creating private sub-communities, such as the famous VXcode, is also permitted and even encouraged. Using the obtained knowledge and experience to create a plethora of innovations. This will help them set industry standards and inspire the new generation of darknet users that will be more capable of protecting themselves from law enforcement and scammers.