My tin foil hat theory on Agora (plausible but not probable)

As everyone knows Agora was super nice and gave plenty of warning that they were shutting down for an unknown time. They returned vendor bonds and such making Agora look like the good guys (I'm aware some did lose out).

Now comes my theory... Since Agora was the largest market and shut down it caused a massive migration to the other markets. The Abraxas layout reminds me a lot of Agora... So what if the Agora admins are actually running another market(s) like Abraxas and are going to pull an exit scam with any market in a few weeks. Then 2 weeks after the exit scam the non Beta Agora pops up... Everyone migrates back to Agora and nobody suspects Agora did anything wrong and are still the good guys. Agora pulls off am exit scam without even looking like they did.

Plausible but basically unproveable unless they slip up somehow. I just used Abraxas as an example and am not singling them out... It could be any of the semi large markets.

Just a random theory I though of whilst skating around. Tin foil hat has been removed. They might have just wanted a month long tropical vacation.


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[3 Points] None:

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[3 Points] This_sucks11:

The cycle is this. We will have 1 or 2 main markets and at least 3 smaller unknowns laying in wait. 1 of the larger markets exits for whatever reason and people flood the other markets.

Of these 4 markets, one still big and 3 that grew exponentially at least one of these probably 2 will exit leaving behind 2 or 3 in its place.

Silk road, Pandora, tormarket etc. They all had smaller markets usually 2 or 3 waiting to take their place. And the cycle will continue with abraxas, nucleus, or alpha bay leaving soon but before they do you will see at least one new market.

If I knew how to code I could literally almost become a billionaire just by being patient.


[2 Points] samwhiskey:

I had the same thought in a comment o few days ago.


[1 Points] thehendrixshow:

My theory is that it's been seized by LE. They seized Agora's funds but returned the vendors funds because they didn't want vendors to close up shop before they could take credentials and start busting them and they knew they'd get those funds too when they busted the vendors themselves...