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Popular Dark Web Market Disappears, Users Migrate In Panic (vice.com)

An anonymous reader cites an article on Motherboard: Like the changing of the seasons, a natural stage in the dark web marketplace life cycle has once again manifested. Nucleus market, which primarily sold illegal drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and cannabis, has disappeared: The site is unresponsive, and the market administrators have not made any announcements about planned downtime. This has forced vendors to migrate to other sites and panicked users to figure out where to go next, all amidst a whirlwind of rumours and speculation of where Nucleus -- and its cash -- has gone. 'Nucleus is an awesome market. One of the best. Hope all the admins are ok and nothing serious happened,' someone identifying themselves as a vendor wrote in a comment on the news site Deep Dot Web. At the moment, it's not totally clear why Nucleus' website is unresponsive. It could be an exit scam -- a scam where site administrators stop allowing users to withdraw their funds and then disappear with the stockpile of bitcoins.

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  1. Re:One can only hope by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing batshit crazy about it. We have to preserve our precious bodily fluids!

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  2. Re:One can only hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You give ignorant people a bad name.

  3. Re:Vmod dowIn by zenlessyank · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please fix your chatbot, Microsoft. This thing is spazzing the fuck out.

  4. Re:Washington State by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Funny

    You sound like a real winner. What does that have to do with anything?

    Jealous much?

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  5. Two Guys From Quantico Drug Bazaar by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 3, Funny

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