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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by tylersmith on Thursday July 20, 2017 @04:49PM (#14816172)
They almost certainly did. I do market research and a number of vendor keys changed on Hansa and Dream on June 23rd. Some had various comments in them claiming to be older, e.g. "EST June 2016".

Dutch Police released a statement claiming as much http://politiepcvh42eav.onion/hansafaq.html

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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by hackerboos on Friday July 21, 2017 @08:41AM (#14819921)
I diffed a key I recently used on Hansa with one the same vendor on Grams and it appears that the key wasn't updated.

Maybe this was done on a case-by-case basis or Grams updated their keys to the new LE keys.

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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by matt_wulfeck on Thursday July 20, 2017 @08:05PM (#14817197)
Interesting. What do you do with your market research?
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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by tylersmith on Thursday July 20, 2017 @09:19PM (#14817434)
I'm a developer on the OpenBazaar project which is a p2p Bitcoin market. Because DNMs are the most popular Bitcoin marketplaces I keep up with them and their features and trends. They're great sources for discovering security concerns.
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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by contingencies on Thursday July 20, 2017 @09:30PM (#14817478)
Can you give an example of some of the security concerns you have discovered? Do you keep a formal list of threat vectors? I would have thought they are pretty much the same as regular web apps.

PS. OpenBazaar seems to have received $3M funding. Interesting about change for a project started by Amir Taaki given his very anarchist professions.

PPS. Desktop client seems a bad thing to develop first (in the true tradition of Bitcoin!). Perhaps you guys could have stuck with network client daemon + API for starters. Anyway, good luck.

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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by SamPatt on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:29PM (#14822759)
The desktop client is just the GUI for the backend:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go

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