![]() ![]() This is the point where it gets interesting because the AlphaBay Market has a revealing feedback system which lists not only lists all products sold but also their prices, and purchase dates.Īssuming a constant feedback ratio, we can use this data to observe the early development of the market from only one snapshot. The fact that anonymous users claim to sell those products, of course, does not say anything about the actual demand and volume of the sales. ![]() If you access one of the larger cryptomarkets, you will probably see thousands of different offerings ranging from prescription drugs to illegal weapons. I chose to take a close look at the AlphaBay Market, one of the biggest platforms in December 2015. The screenshot below shows how such a site looks from a buyers perspective. Cryptomarkets function similar to eBay, in the sense that they do not sell drugs directly but provide a platform where other vendors can sell their products for a small fee. Tor allows the side administrators to host their sites anonymously without the fear of getting arrested immediately by the FBI. I got interested this topic because it allows us to analyse transactions which used to be hidden and nearly impossible to observe.īesides the many legitimate use cases of the Tor network, it also provides together with Bitcoin the technology most cryptomarkets use. ![]() Dolliver’s paper about drug dealing on the Tor network, a hidden, uncensored network which can only be accessed by special software. ![]()
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