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- DrugHub has agreed to fully refund all users who lost money in the SuperMarket exit scam.
- Retro Market has gone offline. Circumstances of the closure unknown.
- SuperMarket has closed following an exit scam by one of the admins.
- The admin of Incognito Market, Pharoah, has been arrested by the FBI several months after exit scamming.
- Silk Road
- darknet markets list
- Popular P2P exchange LocalMonero has announced it is closing.
There are a couple things on top of my head that are also very important that should be talked about
1. Location. where are you going to host the site? Do you want it? Self-contained another words all services and databases in the same location or do you want to distribute across multiple locations pros and cons of each? Also, if offsite, what's your early sign of compromise?
2. Secure backups. How do you create backups and safely? Send them to an offsite location, in cases of either the host going tit's up or so getting a hold of the physical box that the site is running on.
3. Multipurpose hosting. what is the best way to set up a website that looks totally legit, is on clear net selling I don't know car tires, and have on the back-end and onion market where the bulk of your business will be.
4. Exit strategy. markets don't live on forever could be because the staff retires wants to sell the business or unfortunately gets pinched in some cases. Either way I feel like every site needs and strategy to be able to safely transfer or nuke everything.
5. Contingency plan for example recently is Cypher. it is clear that there's no contingency plan if somebody gets "hit by a bus". If there was the staff would be able to maintain the website so as users can go on doing business or you safely put on things for on hold for a while also making sure that any funds due are not held up and released.
6. "Oh Shit" leaver. This is slightly different than the exit strategy in that this is a technical solution that everybody agrees with. I have said this on many of posts in my home looking the best way to have a oh shit lever to create basically a deadman switch. that switch can be powered by the bios and start to execute as soon as time is passed if the administrators or staff of the website, do not check in on the prescribed timetable. -- Checking in could be a simple text message phone call keystroke ..whatever. and it could be a simple as just making the hard drive is not readable or self-destruct scrambling all data and so on. Something like this is less scary when you were able to have a good secure, offside back up like I don't know a computer sitting in your second cousin's grandmother's basement.
Would be great to hear your feedback on these topics or if anybody else wants to chime in here.