German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
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Re: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
#2In theory it is possible to run a bitcoin tor marketplace anonymously, but in practice, given a long enough timeline, mistakes will happen and chances of getting caught approach 100%. I wonder what mistakes were made here.
Re: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
#3Url changed from https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/worlds-largest-darknet-..., which points to this.
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
Re: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
#4In theory it is possible to run a bitcoin tor marketplace anonymously, but in practice, given a long enough timeline, mistakes will happen and chances of getting caught approach 100%. I wonder what mistakes were made here.
I would also like a report/postmortem. I think we are unlikely to get one however, at least not anytime soon.
Re: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
#5Url changed from https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/worlds-largest-darknet-... , which points to this. " Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How did you find out it wasn't the original? I didn't realize bitcoin magazine did that.
The quotes in the title should be around "world's largest" only (since they're about the inability to fully know what's happening on the dark web)
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#6> in what Europol officials said at the time put an end to the "golden age" of dark web markets.
Statements like this are always funny.
Re: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
#7In theory it is possible to run a bitcoin tor marketplace anonymously, but in practice, given a long enough timeline, mistakes will happen and chances of getting caught approach 100%. I wonder what mistakes were made here.
You'll never know the real timeline because law enforcement lie about the use of parallel construction to build cases.
We know that Tor isn't resistant to state-based attackers, so my money is always on global surveillance networks picking up missteps by the operators.
"Whoops I forgot to turn my VPN on and SSH'ed into one of the servers they were already watching" -- this kind of thing.
Re: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
#8> A total of at least 320,000 transactions were carried out via the marketplace
That's the total from 1-2 years (I can't find when in 2019 did they start). If that's the biggest right now, I'm surprised how small the markets are.
Re: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
#9In theory it is possible to run a bitcoin tor marketplace anonymously, but in practice, given a long enough timeline, mistakes will happen and chances of getting caught approach 100%. I wonder what mistakes were made here.
> given a long enough timeline
There's an opportunity. Marketplaces that will exist for X days only.
Re: German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
#10Url changed from https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/worlds-largest-darknet-... , which points to this. " Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How did you find out it wasn't the original? I didn't realize bitcoin magazine did that. The quotes in the title should be around "world's largest" only (since they're about the inability to fully know what's happening on the dark web)
From the Bitcoin Magazine article:
> “Police in the northern city of Oldenburg ‘were able to arrest the alleged operator of the suspected world’s largest illegal marketplace on the darknet, the DarkMarket, at the weekend,’ prosecutors said in a statement,” according to Barron’s.
(with "Barron’s" linking to the Barron's article)
I'd call it a stretch to say Barron's is the original source. It's entirely possible Bitcoin Magazine just pulled a quote from the Barron's article, but I don't know journalism.