Oasis was around much longer but they had Alphabay, Dream, and Hansa on top. They also didn't have any mandatory commission and fees which would reduce amount stolen. I did read here they lied and took 1%, but I'm not sure?
Traderoute came in at a great time while waiting for the others to scam or be seized as the top market to be next. Even though losing $100k in a hack I assume they are in the same area as Oasis.
or i could be wrong..
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I don't think that tr's initial plan was to exit but the perfect opportunity presented itself. Bitcoin hitting all time highs, lots of new people migrating daily as well as vendors, and the icing on the cake was the whole extortion thing. I'm guessing the admins probably thought mandemsweet wasn't going to go away and posed a serious problem so they just said fuck it