Agora (online marketplace)

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Agora
Type of site
Online market
Available inEnglish
URLhttp://agorahoo3yigtggf.onion[1]
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired
Launched2013
Current statusOnline

Agora is an online black market operated as a Tor hidden service. It launched in 2013 and in September 2014 because the largest Darknet Marketplace after the FBI took down Silk Road[2]

All transactions on Agora are conducted with bitcoin.[3]

Agora was unaffected by Operation Onymous, the November 2014 seizure of several major online dark markets (most notably the Silk Road) by law enforcement.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Agora Marketplace URL". Deep Dot Web. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  2. ^ Andy Greenberg. "Drug Market ‘Agora’ Replaces the Silk Road as King of the Dark Net". Wired, 2 September 2014.
  3. ^ Zenon Evans. "Agora Is the Web's Top Black Marketplace". Reason, 2 September 2014.
  4. ^ Andy Greenberg. "Not Just Silk Road 2: Feds Seize Two Other Drug Markets and Counting". Wired, 6 November 2014.
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