r/onions • u/Hardwell12345 • Jul 23 '25
How’s the landscape right now?
So i haven’t got on since Empire market looking to get back how are things is it still the constant DDOS and exit scams
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u/Amazing_Signal40 Jul 23 '25
Arch got seized... Abacus had an exit scam... Dread seem to be under frequent DDOS
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Jul 23 '25
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u/UnlovablePieceOf Jul 23 '25
D Hub and Dark Matter are the 2 main ones now. I like them both personally.
Man.... I do miss Empire. It was the best.
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u/Hardwell12345 Jul 23 '25
Empire was so good and easy to use shout out to Dream who didn’t exit before closing
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u/The3rdbaboon Jul 23 '25
Dream market was the best, so badly missed.
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u/BakedPastaParty Jul 24 '25
Dream was run by the feds for a year to scrape data
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u/The3rdbaboon Jul 24 '25
I had stopped using it about 2 years before it shut down. I was always buying from the same vendor and eventually we bypassed dream altogether and I was ordering from him directly. That went on for about 3 years and then he just went dark on me.
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u/Hardwell12345 Jul 24 '25
Probably finally got caught
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u/BakedPastaParty Jul 24 '25
or retired like a smart rich buy. Just judging by timeline he retired when BTC launched close to 100k again. Smart.
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u/The3rdbaboon 29d ago
I hope that was the outcome. Guy was rock solid for years, never let me down and the weed was always amazing quality.
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u/CryptikViv Jul 28 '25
Naaah Dream sold inside info… “on the Fence”
RIP Torrez, Cannazon, Cannhome & ASAP all severed me Well oh and Unicc if u count that Shizz & Versus “Was one my Favs” they tried but Couldn’t take the breaches & Btc stolen from wallets so had to stand down. I mean for its run Arch took the biscuit with such a Clean Loafing GUI & a Cap u can solve and not have to prove your more than human 20x times
Remember some markets are better for EU people “Me” and some better for USA nevertheless they all tried and fuck everyone who took an Exit and whoever lost money I’m sorry u deserve it I never lost a penny as I only Done a direct payment once my order was done never before I feel sorry for all those with 6figs sat & gone who would trust that much it’s not EBay lol.
& for now if your not using the same vendors just differently then I dunno what ur doing tbh only thing that’s changed is no escrow but when dealing with vendors with so much trust & sales it’s all good as it gets sorted regardless it’s the new ones u need to watch out for nowadays too many scams. Greed
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u/xMicro Jul 28 '25
You don't remember White House then. They're the ones who made XMR only cool, and the ones who made having a UI that isn't ass fugly cool.
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u/SW18saboteur Jul 24 '25
Are there any that don't require PGP. I cannot understand it despite reading everything. I used empire, abacus without it with no trouble...
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u/UnlovablePieceOf Jul 24 '25
Dude just watch some yt videos. PGP is so effin easy to do and doing anything on the markets without it is SOOOOOOOOO DUUUUUUUUMMBBB
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Jul 26 '25
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u/UnlovablePieceOf Jul 26 '25
Don't fucking use tor taxi. Always use daunt.link or Dread for any links. And getting xmr is easy as fuck, just buy BTC and swap it for xmr in cake wallet.
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u/raven16342 Jul 26 '25
Buy Litecoin instead. It's cheaper in the long run. Bitcoin has a high transfer fee. Then swap for Monero.
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u/whatisyouarembp Jul 24 '25
Do you just need help with a PGP? I’d consider myself somewhat decent with computers and PGP gave me a run for my money 😂
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u/daddygirl_industries Jul 25 '25
What do you use for your PGP encode and decode? CLI or a GUI app?
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u/whatisyouarembp Jul 25 '25
I’ve used the built in one on windows and a website (clearnet) in a vm with Linux. I also know you can easily get software on GitHub but I haven’t really looked into that much. If you want to know the website I can pass it on when I get home, most likely on Sunday.
It’s pretty simple to use, you take someone’s public key, plunk it in and in another text box put your message. They will take the encoded message and use their private key to decode it.
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u/xMicro Jul 28 '25
Understanding PGP should be the bar to be a drug addict. Seriously, much better than ID or credit card for age verification.
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u/Amazing_Signal40 Jul 23 '25
As of now I have personally not tried any other market. Still trying to guage the air, especially after an arrest of 5 vendors.
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u/Necessary-Zombie-902 Jul 25 '25
Dread has literally always been under constant DDOS. OP didn't need an update on that 🤣
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u/xMicro Jul 28 '25
>Dread seem to be under frequent DDOS
He said he hasn't been here since Empire market, so I don't think this is news to him.
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u/CryptikViv Jul 28 '25
The end is near Lucky iv been using 🧅for so long I’m actually using the same Ven I would be just not via Escrow which I guess some of u are aware of it gets like this then a market will appear. But for now it looks bleek
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Jul 23 '25
Aside from recent seizures and exits...dread is surprisingly stable most of the time which is nice.
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u/Icy_Association_7210 Jul 26 '25
The dark market .. it prefers not to be listed on the dark site for obvious reasons .. tor taxi thou
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u/thinkingmoney Jul 23 '25
H-Mart
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u/Amazing_Signal40 Jul 25 '25
What about it?
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u/thinkingmoney Jul 25 '25
That’s where you find good onions!
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u/Amazing_Signal40 Jul 25 '25
I disagree , Daunt and tor taxi is the reliable sources
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u/thinkingmoney Jul 25 '25
I’ll have to look. I have never ran into onions there.. I’ll look harder.
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u/BlueHDMIV Jul 27 '25
Empire was amazing I had over 1,000 orders and love that it tracked my spending 😭I spent $90,000 worth of bitcoin on my empire account
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u/BlueHDMIV Jul 27 '25
It was empire or alphabay whatever one tracked spending now that I’m thinking about it more I think it was alphabay
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u/Professional-Arm-132 Jul 26 '25
The FBI and scammers have pretty much ended it all. The only link to a dark market even on tor taxi is Dark Matter. I signed up months ago, get Monero or XRP is really no different than signing up for a bank account. Make sure you have all your info so you can sign up for coinbase and get XRP. Cake Wallet needs ID verification, getting XRP other ways pretty much means mining it. Can’t even attempt to talk to anyone without PGP, etc. I haven’t been on in years, but I’ve signed up for probably 100 things to even try to get XRM to simply buy some weed. I gave up. Way too much work. I’ll just look for a telegram. They say XRM is the what bitcoin was supposed to be, meanwhile it’s nearly impossible to get without mining. I was a silk road guy. Shits so infuriating now. Spent hours creating, accounts, PGP, etc. I’m done
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u/Hardwell12345 Jul 26 '25
Yea same it’s like they make u go through soo many hurdles back then it was just the tails pgp and the marketplace easy stuff now not so much
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u/Previous-Ninja-4783 Jul 27 '25 edited 28d ago
Why dont you go to Daunt.link and you'll see plenty of onion market places both big and small. You dont even need an email or anything for d-hub. All you need to know their is how to use pgp, and thats for your safety
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u/Brucewaynesd 17h ago
Ive heard of telegram having maps that show local plugs in your area. but not sure to access it. are you familiar with this? cant find a plug worth shit.
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