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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u/[deleted] 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 Jul 28 '25

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/Necessary-Zombie-902 Jul 25 '25

Empire was mid as hell.

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u/smblsow8 Jul 25 '25

Empire is my wet dream

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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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u/nova_and_out Jul 24 '25

Yeah its not hard. Its as difficult as copy and paste

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u/UnlovablePieceOf Jul 25 '25

Bro for real! It's crazy that people have such a hard time with it.

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u/[deleted] 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/Hardwell12345 Jul 27 '25

Just learn every single vendor requires pgp

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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/Barfinelmo Jul 23 '25

Good call. When do you see it being stable again

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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/DannyB4562 Jul 26 '25

Anyone know of a cannahome alternative. I haven’t been on in a while

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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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u/esetio23 21d ago

What do you recommend now? Easy and safe? Thanks in advance