The largest monero-only DNM went down today
"The investigators identified the suspects...using intelligence collected following takedowns of [other] dark web markets, including Nemesis, Bohemia, Tor2Door, and Kingdom Market"
I wonder if they traced XMR?
bro STFU
Cry harder
lol
i WonDEr if THey tRAced MoNerO
you're a clown making clown posts out of pettiness.
GFY π
I'm just wondering how they caught the bad guys
Is that so wrong for me to do?
Perhaps you just don't want to open your eyes
and perhaps youre a disingenuous FUDster with confirmation bias who is grasping at straws to make a case without any real data
Iβm willing to bet it was cookie tracking- lots of recent OSINT data to support this
I'm sure there are a thousand ways they get data about a DNM that's been online for years
I agree, there are lots of ways to get data
One way is: send monero to the target and then watch the blockchain to see what happens to it next
That's how they caught the Columbian monero user and the Finnish monero user
Why not use the same trick again?
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Agree! I think in the feds case though they gotta make it look like the tracking and tracing happened through legal means otherwise it all gets thrown out in court
This omission recently had me thinking this would be coming and here we are mere weeks later
Feds gonna fed
Are there any other shops I can goto now?
yeah
go to Shopstr and buy somebodys 3d printed bitaxe case
its a DNM
Drugs are bad for you bro
I only use DNMs to trade bitcoin
But if that's what you're looking for, I recommend Robosats and Bisq
durrr
its a DNM if it has an .onion
durrr
> if it has an .onion
...and sells stuff
FTFY
kids
its not "DNM" unless it has a similar thread model as Silk Road and its successors.
different threat model, different market type.
STN wants to do whatever he can to make LN look well battle tested.
it isn't.
Robosats has a similar threat model as Silk Road and its successors
The threat is "if we are caught running this illegal exchange, we go to jail for a long time"
They rely on LN's privacy properties to keep them from being discovered and so far it is working well for them
Notice that the XMR marketplace went down, not the LN one
Robosats neither has a similar threat model, trade volume or architecture to a DNM
> Robosats neither has a similar threat model
What is the difference between their threat models?
> trade volume
How do you know any DNM's trade volumes? Robosats publishes theirs -- do any DNMs publish theirs?
> or architecture
What is different about the architecture?
super testnet knows that DEXes belong in their own category. he's pretending like he doesn't on purpose, to irritate you.
btw uniswap is the world's biggest DNM and it's ETH only, because it happens to have an onion frontend :-p
Darknet exchanges are a subcategory of darknet markets
And uniswap is a very big one
Looks plausible! They found them "by tracing financial flows"
> The takedown follows years of intensive investigative work to map the platformβs technical architecture and identify the individuals behind it. By tracing financial flows, analysing digital forensic evidence, and working closely with partners on the ground, authorities were able to deliver a decisive blow to one of the most prolific drug markets on the dark web.
"Probably swapped into Bitcoin!" in 3...2...1
Very unlikely that the feds would go through the difficulty of reverse engineering Monero payments when they can just track all the leaked cookies (per Nords recent omission 5/27/25 that >94b stolen browser cookies were leaked) to find the βbad guysβ
Right out of the playbook π€·πΌββοΈ I didnβt write the rules, I just call it like I see it
