Hey Gang,
I thought you might get a kick out of some of the research I have been doing. Below are a couple of images of graphed data that show when Dream Market vendors created their PGP key.
My thoughts are that the creation of the keys likely match up with the creation of related vendor account, and thus we have a rough idea of vendor growth. One graph shows raw growth, the other is accumulative.
I am sort of experimenting with sharing my research here, since I don't usually see content like this here, but I figured there are some nerds out there that would appreciate the data research.
A couple of notes on the images, the little red circle is around the time Dream Market was posted publicly. There is one key that also goes back too 2004, but I omitted it since it unnecessarily stretched out the graph.
If this goes well, I have some more research on email providers.
- researcher
https://anonimage.net/db/full/mBT352VPWx.png
https://anonimage.net/db/full/06vdXf9XFZ.png
EDIT: Added PGP versions graph https://anonimag.es/i/key_version-wbgf9769.png
EDIT 2: Added Email Domains Extracted from PGP Keys https://anonimag.es/i/key_email_domains-wbg3c110.png
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