Abacus Market, the largest Western darknet marketplace supporting Bitcoin payments, has shut down its public infrastructure ...

Abacus Market, the largest Bitcoin [BTC] -driven darknet marketplace in the Western world, has abruptly gone dark, bringing about suspicions of a major exit scam. After dominating the ecosystem with ...

Abacus Market, once the biggest Bitcoin‑friendly dark web shop for Western buyers, vanished from the internet in July.

In 2021, Hydra accounted for about 80% of all darknet market-related cryptocurrency transactions, and since 2015, it has received approximately $5.2 billion in cryptocurrency, according to the ...

Hydra Market's sales were over 1 billion euros in 2020 alone, authorities say. German authorities took down the world’s largest illegal marketplace on the darknet with the help of U.S. law ...

“Darknet market activity has been remarkably resilient over the last few years, despite continued efforts by law enforcement to shut down illicit activities,” Chainalysis writes in its report. “When ...

AlphaBay OG announces comeback AlphaBay started in 2014 and it became the largest darknet market. The business ended when law enforcement took it down on July 5, 2017.

ATLANTA – A man who worked as a spokesman for a "darknet" marketplace used for illegal online sales has been sentenced in Atlanta to serve nearly four years in federal prison. Ronald L. Wheeler ...

The U.S. Justice Department says data gleaned after the 2019 Wall Street Market and 2017 AlphaBay forum takedowns was used to help track down those arrested Tuesday. "Darknet vendor accounts were ...