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/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.