A lot of people lurk this sub just to find out what's going to happen next. The seizures, arrests, close calls, crazy and funny stories that happen in this community are the stuff Hollywood is made of. And whenever some disaster strikes there's always that random throwaway who called it out first and tried to warn us, but got downvoted, ridiculed and ignored.
So I wanted to start a thread where we try to guess what 2015 has in store for us. Will Evo and Agora persist another year without LE shutting them down? FBI planning a mass operation to bust dozens of vendors in one day? Ross and Defcon both acquitted? Will poppermachine ever come back from that fateful dinner?
For the lurkers, detectives and clairvoyant among you, post your best predictions of what's going to happen in 2015, and we'll come back to this thread on Dec 31st - assuming we're not all in the slammer - to see who was on the money.
Either Agora or EVO goes offline, possible both by the end of the year.
Crackdown on anonymous BTC buying, selling and exchanging.
Decentralized markets getting some love.
TOR will be scrutinized by governments even more than in 2014.
Another Darknet bust wave and increase of busts involving customers.
People still not learning not to FE and getting scammed.
Community outcry for an alternative to Bitcoin.
At least another future high profile market popping up.
People will still not use multi-sig
I2P will get some love too.
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