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    #Black-market #archives
    ▻http://www.gwern.net/Black-market+archives

    Dark Net Markets (DNM) are online markets typically hosted as Tor hidden services providing escrow services between buyers & sellers transacting in Bitcoin or other cryptocoins, usually for drugs or other illegal/regulated goods; the most famous DNM was Silk Road 1, which pioneered the business model in 2011. From 2013-2015, I scraped/mirrored on a weekly or daily basis all existing English-language DNMs as part of my research into their usage, lifetimes/characteristics, & legal riskiness; these scrapes covered vendor pages, feedback, images, etc. In addition, I made or obtained copies of as many other datasets & documents related to the DNMs as I could. This uniquely comprehensive collection is now publicly released as a 50GB (~1.6TB) collection covering 89 DNMs & 37+ related forums, representing <4,438 mirrors, and is available for any research. This page documents the download, contents, interpretation, and technical methods behind the scrapes.

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      POSSIBLE USES

      Here are some suggested uses:
      – providing information on vendors across markets like their PGP key and feedback ratings
      – identifying arrested and flipped sellers (eg the Weaponsguy sting on Agora)
      – individual drug and category popularity
      – total sales per day, with consequent turnover and commission estimates; correlates with Bitcoin or black-market-related search traffic, subreddit traffic, Bitcoin price or volume, etc
      – seller lifetimes, ratings, over time and by product sold
      – losses to black-market exit scams, or seller exit scams
      – reactions to exogenous shocks like Operation Onymous
      – survival analysis, and predictors of exit-scams (early finalization volume; site downtime; new vendors; etc)
      – topic modeling of forums
      – compilations of forum posts on lab tests estimating purity and safety
      – compilations of forum-posted Bitcoin addresses to examine the effectiveness of market tumblers
      – stylometric analysis of posters, particular site staff (what is staff turnover like? do any markets ever change hands?)
      – deanonymization and information leaks (eg GPS coordinates in metadata, usernames reused on the clearnet, valid emails in PGP public keys)
      – security practices: use of PGP, lifetime of individual keys, accidental posts of private rather than public keys, malformed or unusable public keys, etc
      – anthologies of real-world photos of particular drugs compiled from all sellers of them
      – simply browsing old listings, remembering the good times and bad times, the fallen and the free

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