Much like X-Cart or Open-Cart for the clear net but specifically written for centralized TOR hosting with crypto-currency payments.
It could be a suite of applications configured to use multiple nodes and have fail-over and DR capabilities built in using off the shelf cloud solutions (OS/SS/Docker etc) With it being open-source it could be audited so the "hydra" effect Defcon promised could be verified and tested in sandbox/VM environments. Every DNM could share the same codebase, it could even be modular to support plugins like tumblers, prediction market capabilities etc.
Thoughts?
I'm really surprised at the amount of fuckups that are a result of opsec at the server level.
So many markets were the victim of either the admin linking the server payment info to their real life, or having a single point of failure (only one server to find).
You're right about docker, a distributed system would be great. Not for speed (tor is, in all likelihood, the bottleneck here) but for resilience.
What I don't like, however, is the idea of one codebase. Security by obscurity is the best option, if DNM admins would give more than 10 minutes of thought to continuing security by way of penetration tests and periodic changes.