The “dark web” site AlphaBay, which let users anonymously trade bitcoin for drugs, weapons, hacking tools, and other illegal goods, went down this week, the New York Times reports. The site, accessible only through the encrypted Tor network, was believed to have been hosting hundreds of thousands of dollars in transactions every day. That’s sparked fears … Continue reading “The world’s most popular bitcoin drug marketplace has vanished, and now people are trying to find their dealers on Reddit”
The “dark web” site AlphaBay, which let users anonymously trade bitcoin for drugs, weapons, hacking tools, and other illegal goods, went down this week, the New York Times reports. The site, accessible only through the encrypted Tor network, was believed to have been hosting hundreds of thousands of dollars in transactions every day.