If you use any of the dark markets, I would consider stopping temporarily. Hansa and Alphabay were raided and shut down recently, and the owner of Alphabay was found dead on the end of a rope in Thailand. A couple of days ago, the owner of bitmixer.io - the largest Bitcoin mixer - announced that they were shutting down.
Despite the huge profit we earn, we are closing our activity. Let me explain why.
I'm bitcoin enthusiast since 2011. When we started this service I was convinced that any Bitcoin user has a natural right to privacy. I was totally wrong. Now I grasped that Bitcoin is transparent non-anonymous system by design. Blockchain is a great open book. I believe that Bitcoin will have a great future without dark market transactions. You may use Dash or Zerocoin if you want to buy some weed. Not Bitcoin.
I hope our decision will help to make Bitcoin ecosystem more clean and transparent. I hope our competitors will hear our message and will close their services too. Very soon this kind of activity will be considered as illegal in most of countries.
In my opinion, this is complete bullshit and they have been threatened, this is why they are closing. This is happening far too soon after the market closures for it to not be a coincidence.
I have also seen rumours floating around about the dream market. It may have been seized and could be under the control of the FBI, so be careful with what you're doing on there. Also bear in mind that the Hansa closure resulted in lots of user information becoming available to the authorities. If you have an account on there or Alphabay that has the same credentials you use anywhere else, burn the account and make a new one.
Fucking government can't keep their fucking claws off of anything that doesn't get taxed or regulated. I can't wait until the OpenBazaar goes anonymous, this is bullshit.