Whats the future of Dark-Web? : CafeDread | Torhoo darknet markets

Well no one wants to build something that only they and a handful can only be able to use right. Most people that use the darkweb esp markets are regular Joe's, it's already painstaking for them to use Tor and navigate everything trying to stay away from phishing links and using PGP etc, it's already enough as it is, you don't want to add a market that requires you to use xmr multisig, that, someone pointed out, hasn't been properly tested nor is it supported by the monero devs, something that would risk finding a nice juicy bug in for threat actors to drain all of everyone's money, it's risky and it's not even worth it, users would simply go to other markets to buy drugs with Bitcoin, which funny enough they still opt to as it is.

There a lot of constraints when developing new services or trying to improve upon Tor. Remember that, in a broadly speaking manner, the "Dark Web". advocates for a safe, completely anonymous, privacy focused network, sort of in a similar way to the original conception of the Internet. There are several different technological implementations of the Dark Web, with projects such as FreeNet, I2P and tor addressing in different ways, and to different extents, some of these broad principles. But remember, making an analogy, these would be the equivalent of your ISP in the clear Internet. On top of those foundations, there are applications and services to run, which must fill some gaps that Tor or I2P or any others, cannot cover. For example, .onion websites cannot rely on SSL/TLS protocol to uniquely identify the owner of a site, because in a fully anonymous network, there is no concept of inherent trust in a Certificate Authority such as Verisign or whatever. This create a ripple effect, as now all the protections brought by SSL/TLS such as traffic encryption, client/server verification and/or Perfect Forward Secrecy cannot be directly inherited for the DarkWeb. And this creates a whole set of technical vulnerabilities and threat surface which is quickly abused by phishing / scammers. Same goes with DDOS: the architecture of DarkWeb is an overlay, through usage of IP Tunneling, over the already existing Internet, where multiple nodes create some sort of a massive WAN, with traffic hopping through multiple nodes across the world to provide anonymity to a connection, but spending additional overhead in terms of traffic consumption and latency, sacrificing this in exchange for privacy. This also creates an inherent flaw, and DDOS attacks targetting connections in the DarkWeb require far less computational strain on the side of the attacker. The list goes on, with a website like Dread, or the DNMs, having to implement layer over layer of different approaches (CAPTCHAs, anti-DDOS systems, PGP encryption) to cover in a different layer, the caveats created by the technical constraints of the network. Usage of Monero is another example, where the cryptocoin blockchain needs to create decoys, stealth addresses and other means to provide for the anonymity that doesn't exist in the clear web cryptocoins.

The multisig mechanism is just one more example of a clever system to address one common flaw in DNMs, the possibility of an exit scam with client and/or vendor wallets left under control of the Market staff, but as several people have pointed out, there's a trade-off between functionality and usability, and unfortunately, the more technology advances, the more difficult it may become to implement easy interfaces for non-savvy users to be able to use them.

Have a look at chatarsis, I was simply impressed by how clean is the UI, it may well become a serious contender.