newmarkets is KILLING this industry and I TELL YOU WHY : newmarkets | Torhoo darknet markets
Okay, we need to have a serious talk about this. I've been keeping an eye on
https://torhoo.cc/go.php?u=TDJRdmJtVjNiV0Z5YTJWMGN3PT0=# for years, and I've seen the same cycle repeat itself time and time again. New, poorly designed scripted marketplaces keep popping up, only to vanish a few months later. These marketplaces are clearly thrown together with minimal effort, and their "design" is often laughable at best. The admins at
https://torhoo.cc/go.php?u=TDJRdmJtVjNiV0Z5YTJWMGN3PT0=# are obviously in cahoots with these operations because they keep approving these subpar sites.
Vendors are getting fed up with having to maintain multiple vendor accounts across these marketplaces. Not only is it a hassle, but these platforms are incredibly difficult to use. Vendors are forced to juggle 8-10 of these marketplaces just to keep their businesses running. The security of these marketplaces is also a major concern. If one of these 8-10 marketplaces gets compromised, it can bring down the entire operation.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to launch a new, high-quality marketplace these days because of this mess. We're essentially creating our own problems by tolerating and promoting these low-effort, low-quality platforms. It doesn't have to be this hard to attract and retain vendors. The community and vendors need to come together and avoid these shitty marketplaces.
These subpar marketplaces are slowly killing the industry. I've been watching it happen for years, and it's a frustrating shitshow. We're all just puppets in this game, and it's high time we took a stand and demanded better. We need to support marketplaces that prioritize !TRANSPARENT! security, user experience, and long-term sustainability. Let's make a change and save this industry from itself.
I'm pretty confident the admins aren't in cahoots with these honestly though. I just think the standards have been too low or not rigorously checked.
Pentesting is not cheap, requires skills, and is time consuming.
In your utopia world, what do you suggest change?
We need to better support markets that make genuine efforts towards security and design. This thread needs more pentesters, which are unfortunately hard to find. Additionally, design reviews are necessary because the UI/UX on the darknet are ridiculously poor, and some markets only make minor changes to not look like the default marketplace script. This should not be enough effort to start a market here. This thread needs to be much stricter, or it won't have any meaningful impact.
In my utopia world, we should make efforts to allow vendors to migrate easily between markets. It's an immense amount of work for a vendor to relist all their listings and descriptions on a new market. For some vendors, setting up a new account on a market can take days or even weeks, and they might do all this work for nothing.