UPDATE: ALTHOUGH ALPHABAY IS BACK ONLINE IT IS VERY SLOW AND OFTEN TIMING OUT. PLEASE HANGUP AND TRY AGAIN LATER
UPDATE: ALPHABAY IS BACK ONLINE
I will relay updates from our devs and admins when they are given to me.
During downtimes, there are added risks that you should understand and be weary of. These are the most common ones.
Increased phishing attacks, on our forums and on reddit usually claiming to have an alt address that you may not be aware of. I assure you that 100% of these are phishing sites eager to take your coins once the market is back up. Others include bitcoin addresses for such fake alt addresses or guesses at your market username based on your reddit username with various requests for a deposit to an address. Do not send those phishers any coins!
Fake vendors offering you DDs during outages such as this. These are opportunisties with similiar usernames offer outragous prices and a bitcoin address and a even sometimes a legitimate PGP key that they will assume you won't bother to use. It is safest to avoid DDs during any market outage.
anything penissmith says. He enjoys times like these to incite discontent.
Thank you for your continued patience. In the mean time I suggest we all fill a few water bottles with vodka and await the return of our marketplace.
Amazon never goes down for updates. What kind of operation are you guys running there?