Wired article on Evolution post SR2 take down

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/the-evolution-of-evolution-after-silk-road/

Overall darknet listings are down from 65,500 in August to 44,000 now. Article claims users flocking to Evolution. Mentions that Evolution is "worse" than SR because it allows credit card sales. Theorizes that it is hosted in Russia or China.

Interesting offhand comment that Evolution's pageload times are much faster. Interesting thing to check out. Serving fast sites over Tor is all about handling latency so I wonder what they're doing.


Comments


[6 Points] TerribleDNMAdvice:

That's why the page loads are so fast- state backing.

It's all making sense now. Communists countries are teaming up to get the capitalists of the west hooked on drugs and slowly drain our wealth until we are poor and they are rich.

I'm ok with that.


[2 Points] None:

Am I the only one that sees the exit scam? Really?

Fraudsters run Evo. Fraudsters. How else are they going to exit?

Maybe sell the site to another fraudster, who then exit scams?


[1 Points] tingleming:

Interesting.


[0 Points] DNM---Throwaway:

Interesting offhand comment that Evolution's pageload times are much faster.

Quote: "Just how Evolution managed those speeds despite running on Tor itself isn’t clear."

That's a vague "almost-accusation" that it could hypothetically be run by the U.S. Government. Also, calling Verto a "mysterious figure who ran a carding forum", which also reeks of LE behind the scenes.

If it's not an alphabet-agency operation, then it will easily be the #1 target for LE, and I hope it [and Agora] are located in Russia or China, as speculated in the article.