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Size of listings
[edit]The size of the darknet markets economy can be problematic to estimate. A study based on a combination of listing scrapes and feedback to estimate sales volume by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University captured some of the best data. A reviewed 2013 analysis put the Silk Road grossing $300,000 a day, extrapolating to over $100 million over a year. Subsequent data from later markets has significant gaps as well as complexities associated with analysing multiple marketplaces.[1]
- 18,174 – October 2013, Digital Citizens Alliance,[2] 13,472 of which were on Silk Road in November 2013[3]
- 41,207 – April 2014 Digital Citizens Alliance[4]
- 33,985 – May 2014 The Guardian via Reddit[5]
- 43,175 – July 2014 a report by the BBC[2]
- 65,595 – August 2014 Digital Citizens Alliance[6]
- 51,755 – December 2014 Digital Citizens Alliance[7]
- 68,835 – March 2015 (before Evolution scam), Digital Citizens Alliance[8]
- 68,322 – April 2015 (after Evolution scam)[8]
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April 2014
August 2014
November 2014
March 2015
April 2015
- Silk Road
- Black Market Reloaded
- Sheep
- DeepBay
- Agora
- Pandora
- Evolution
- TOM
- Middle Earth
- Nucleus
- Abraxas
- Black Bank
- Alpha Bay
- Others
- ^ Kyle Soska and Nicolas Christin (13 August 2015). "Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem" (PDF). Retrieved 9 June 2016.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b Crawford, Angus (31 July 2014). "Dark net drugs adverts 'double in less than a year'". Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Power, Mike (30 May 2014). "Life after Silk Road: how the darknet drugs market is booming". Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Darknet-August 2014". Digital Citizens Alliance. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Darknet Marketplace Watch – Monitoring Sales of Illegal Drugs on the Darknet". Digital Citizens Alliance. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ a b "Darknet Marketplace Watch – Monitoring Sales of Illegal Drugs on the Darknet (Q1)". Digital Citizens Alliance. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Silk Road successors". The Economist. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.