The biggest dark web marketplace AlphaBay is offline, sparks fears for it users.

in #technews7 years ago

AlphaBay Market was known as one of the largest dark web's selling drugs, guns and other illegal paraphernalia has just does offline since midnight yesterday.

Although nothing is unusually about the site is offline sometime for maintenance, there is an unusual activity that cause fears for the website users.

 Some users of the website discover a massive Bitcoin transaction worth over $3.8 million (1,479.03904709 BTC) that many believe could have originated from AlphaBay.

here's a screenshot:

In additional to this, the site admin have not make any announcement.

This lead to many people believed AlphaBay shut down the site in order to steal user funds and this will be just another similar scheme case with Evolution marketplace, a similar darkweb marketplace that disappeared with $12 million of user money back in 2015. 

There is a lot of controversy around this issue on the internet, but the answer will be reveal soon enough after few days whether or not this will be another big scheme or just a website maintain.


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Upvoted great read! Thanks mate hope it goes back up for all involved

i wonder how this could effect the price of monero being that its huge price rise a while back was a reaction to the news that alphabay was accepting it...

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