Rich,

I saw TMP going away, very interesting. However, I think the absence of a seizure notice says it all. The owner, like others, probably decided to quit while he was ahead and out of cuffs. What is funny is that no bitcoins will likely be lost because TMP uses multi sig, so the feds can't take anything without other the buyer and seller agreeing.

That's not to say that I have a definitive answer but that was my read on the situation.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Rich Jones <rich@openwatch.net> wrote:

Interesting but unreported development: TheMarketPlace, aka "TMP", is now also gone, although it haven't seen anything about it in any of the government press releases. There is no seizure notice, it has simply vanished.

The interesting thing here is that TMP operated over I2P rather than Tor. There was a Tor gateway, but I believe the hidden service still operated as a proxy inlet to the eepsite. If it has been seized as part of Operation Onymous, this would be the first time (that I've heard about) that law enforcement has been able to disrupt services on the I2P network.

It's also quite possible that the operators simply got skittish and bailed. I certainly wouldn't blame them.

Anyway, if anybody has any other information about LEO activities on I2P, I'd love to know more.

R

(ps - is anybody out there actually interested in any of these marketplace updates? If not, I'll stop, I'm basically just passing along news from various subreddits anyway.)