The dark Web has been hanging over Bitcoin like a ghost. You don’t hear VC-funded blockchain companies, or options exchanges applying for ETFs, talking about the dark web, but the dark web is how we got here, it’s where Bitcoin started, and there’s still a lot of cryptocurrency trading going on. A regular look at the latest news on the dark Web provides a glimpse into the underground market. Dreaddit from Reddit
Deepdotweb.com has become the main source of information for dark web vendors since the reddit forum R/DarkMarkets was shut down. The site has been erratic, with European visitors being prompted with an error. Whether this was a temporary glitch or a permanent ban under a GDPR(General Data Protection Regulation) that prevented Europeans from accessing other US websites is unclear. While Deepdotweb has done a good job of reporting dark Web activity, relying on a centralized news site is not good enough. All the authorities need to do is secretly infiltrate the site and start controlling the news cycle and how users are transported to the dark Web marketplace.
Fortunately, there is now a new news site called Dread, which publishes websites about the main dark web markets under the domain name dreadditevildot.onion, redditr /darknetmarkets reborn, and the site is only accessible via Tor. The forum’s members agree to do business on the Deep Web, where IP addresses are not easily traceable, which is in everyone’s interest. Dread has several sections, of which d/darknetmarkets is the most popular, with over 13,000 subscribers.
75% of Dream’s suppliers accept BCH
Dream, the largest and longest-running market on the Deep Web, has seen a surge in vendors accepting Bitcoin cash. The site introduced BCH payments six months ago after sellers and buyers complained about the high fees they charged for bitcoin and stopped accepting orders under $100. While bitcoin fees have since fallen, the popularity of BCH has been rising. Dream marketplace vendors have a total of 102,000 products that support BCH payments, compared with 126,000 for Bitcoin.
The DDoS attacks that hit most of the dark Web market last year have yet to occur. Dream claims to be the second most online, with 98.19% of the time spent online. Second only to Olympus Market99.81%. Rapture (92.22 percent) and Point with (91.8 percent) were slightly behind on Deepdotweb’s list. While cryptocurrency users bicker, grandstand and post meaningless posts on the net and dark Web, it’s business as usual, just as it was in the early days of the Silk Road: a thriving economy of underground black markets, where you can buy almost anything. The original link: https://news.bitcoin.com/deep-we… Es-and-dread Rises/By Kai Sedgwick Translated by Bitcoin.com