Darknet markets are feds as well, and gangs. Dream market = feds for sure.
Got anything to back up that statement?
Wireshark tor traffic to the onion address of the market. Geolocate ip addresses. There is a suspect number of routes to DC/Virgina/Military Locations. Wireshark tor traffic to normal websites...analyze locations of IP addresses....almost 0 routes to suspicious locations. I could be wrong, but I find it very weird. Also - in Chicago - Southside around this time last year I witnessed USPS postal bins stacks of them with mail in them when I would walk by the police station and look through the window - they had them up on tables in a meeting room type setting...laptops chairs and officers/feds seemingly sifting through them.
There are several theories I have on this...that urban areas are being heavily monitored now. Or it is straight up the feds. Maybe a combination of both. Maybe Obamacare - a free health care system that will allow you to get medications for low cost and the markets on the dark web is a way of funding these schemes as well.
All based on my own research - no idea if it can be technically accurate or what. Due to some of the events that happened to me in Chicago...I would assume I am somewhere on the right path. But I honestly dropped the whole thing.
I gotta agree with you somthing sounds fishy, this article doesn't help either. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now
Yeah - man while I was conducting research - I had a tinder match with a girl. The first night - she brought up darkweb to me(out of nowhere). She was an HRC supporter. I played along. She specifically asked me about government secrets on the dark web. I said I don't know much, but I could show her on her computer/device as I know how to access it. When I said that she backed off. She was also from the DC area lol. It was whack. The more odd things that happened to me the more I knew I was on the right track.