The AlphaBay darkweb market has come back to life after an administrator of the original project relaunched it over the weekend. At the same time, the

Notorious AlphaBay darknet market comes back to life

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2021-08-13 06:30:05

The AlphaBay darkweb market has come back to life after an administrator of the original project relaunched it over the weekend.

At the same time, the admin announced plans for setting up a platform for darknet markets to set up shop with a strong focus on anonymity.

AlphaBay started in 2014 and it became the largest darknet market. The business ended when law enforcement took it down on July 5, 2017.

In Thailand, the police arrested Alexander Cazes, a Canadian citizen using the online alias Alpha02/Admin and one of the two AlphaBay administrators.

Tom Robinson, co-founder of blockchain analysis company Elliptic, found DeSnake’s messages to the darknet market community, where they introduced themselves as the “security administrator and co-founder of AlphaBay.”

DeSnake provided their original public PGP key used in the heydays of the illegal market to prove their claims, allowing anyone to verify the identity on public PGP keyservers:

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