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As all of you most probably know, there are Darknet markets around there giving their users the possibility to trade and exchange all type of goods from drugs to weapons, stolen credit cards, etc.. One week ago, the most important market on the Darknet abruptly stopped and left thousands of users wondering what was happening.

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On the first hours, people on reddit thought it might juste be a server update and that the site would come back soon, the staff running the market was planning to introduce the support of Zcash(ZEC) so everyone stayed relatively calm.
Now after a week without informations, users suspect an exit scam has taken place and they speculate that over $50M worth of bitcoins have disapeared or may have been seized by law enforcements.The law enforcement thesis comes from a Canadian media that related the FBI got his hands on computers related to a "Worldwide dark web operation" and that coincides with the shutdown of the Alphabay market and that news got speculation going on.

Here is the link to the article (French speaking media) [TVANouvelles](http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/07/05/la-grc-procede-a-deux-perquisitions-a-trois-rivieres)

Alphabay was the biggest market out there, the site was hosting $600,000 to $800,000 worth of transactions each day and some investors thinks the current drop in cryptocurrencies happening right now is related to the closure of Alphabay.

And you, what do you think about this ?
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Charlyy