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With such a constant high turnover of markets now, lets take a trip down memory lane for some nostalgia. Which of these markets was your GOAT? : DarkNetMarkets | Torhoo darknet markets

I'm lucky enough to have started on the deep web in late 2012 so I've experienced all the markets, or at least decent ones, since the original SR1. Some of these were so user friendly, insanely reliable, the menu was to die for. it truly was a different and golden age so it got me thinking, my personal favourite of ALLLLLLLLL of these options was Dream with special mentions to SR1 and Blackmarket: Reloaded.

who was yours?!!?!?!
/u/TheCollegeDropout
1 points
1 week ago*
Not including Hansa Feels Bad Man.
Archetyp is my second pick.
/u/SubsistencePharma 📢
1 points
1 week ago
lol literslly the one i forgot. sorry bro
/u/TheCollegeDropout
1 points
1 week ago
No prob. Also, forgot White House Market which kind of set the standard for security going forward.
/u/SubsistencePharma 📢
1 points
1 week ago
true. man theres so many and so little history online without delving into each individually.
/u/EndangeredRobot
1 points
1 week ago*
The WHM fiasco is the first time I became interested in what this HugBunter user had to say. Good old /r/darknetmarkets over at Reddit. Luckily Hug was hard at work on Dread at this point.

AlphaBay is probably my favorite market. I've been out of the game for about 5 years though, so I'm sure better has come along.

Edit: Realized I'm thinking about a different market but can't remember the name. They were super selective about vendors and only had established teams.
/u/GodsNameIsSmack
1 points
1 week ago
I wanna say SR1, Dream and Archetyp. Those were the longest lasting and easiest to use markets. I was out of the whole DNM scene from like 2018-2023 so could have missed one.
/u/echuta777
1 points
1 week ago
Bohemia's design and UI was fucking fantastic. I'm still bitter that they took such a well made market and torched it with scamming...stupidly at that.
I remember SR1 well too.
/u/nomoremarkets 🍼
1 points
1 week ago
Whitehouse market forever the best, ran supreme for a couple years then exited gracefully without scamming or getting caught.
/u/subwaysubs
1 points
1 week ago
Yeah WH was my alltime favorite.
SR1, Archetyp & one that's not added to the list: DarkFox
/u/Stick
1 points
1 week ago
Probably not a big market but I started on World Market. Very happy with it.
/u/OneGrasshopper 🍼
1 points
1 week ago
Man i was one of those sad souls that had two BTC stupidly in my wallet when SR1 went down. i was young, dumb and full of......
Archetyp sure thing!
/u/[deleted] 🍼
1 points
1 week ago
empire, torrez, alpha, archetyp all where good markets.
/u/jez1413 🍼
1 points
1 week ago
cannazon. really single-issue but 14yo me ended up with a 3.5 every coupla months. became the most popular guy

been through a lot of alternatives - arche, abacus, now fucking w/ TorZon for my 1.5oz/month habit
/u/JoeExotic P TURTLE KILLER!
1 points
1 week ago
DHL (before the ip leak)
Agora
WHM
Cannahome
Dream
Archetyp
Bohemia
/u/kesselrun
1 points
1 week ago
Literally the best one, Empire, is not on the list.
/u/PoopyButthole69420
1 points
1 week ago
buncha newbies in here fr
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1 points
1 week ago
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/u/spearhead
1 points
1 week ago
White House did it first, and did it the best.
/u/quark P
0 points
1 week ago
Where is Hydra?
/u/SubsistencePharma 📢
1 points
1 week ago
we aint russian homie. i fucked up with empire and whm in my opinion tho.
/u/Paladhn
0 points
1 week ago
Alphabay was king when i started and still my favourite market to date.
/u/AngieJ P
0 points
1 week ago
SR1 was cool but the user interface was like old school windows or websites. Still kids with training wheels not knowing how to do UX/UI correctly in the modern day. This persists now with all markets which are hard to use.

Enter: AlphaBay.

You guys, the user interface was the best I have ever seen on the DNMs. That, combined with being the king of markets at the time with literally everyone. They also had a forum section which had just as many active and registered users as Dread. So you got your advice and chat and gossip on the same site as the market.

That's the sheer volume of users they attracted. They were the Google/Microsoft/Apple of the DNMs. Everyone used something from there no matter what they were looking for... you couldn't avoid it.