It’s growing fast. And it’s even advertising.
Atlantis, a sort of slick, start-up-ified version of the Silk Road marketplace, just passed its first $500,000 in sales. The next step? Start advertising.
Spotted by The Verge, this ad is brazen in a number of ways: First of all, it exists; second, it's on YouTube, which shuns content like this. (It will probably get deleted soon.) Atlantis is casting itself as a sort of Silk Road for the masses.
Atlantis, which is accessible through the anonymity-enabling Tor network, lists among its product categories Drug, Forgeries, Money, and Lab Supplies. Like Silk Road, which is a multimillion-dollar-a-year business, the product listings leave little to the imagination:
Via: weirderweb.com
A commenter on the video, unsure why Atlantis should be trusted, joked: "Biggest fucking honeypot ever." A representative from Atlantis responded:
While we do everything we can to keep our market free from law enforcement and scammers at the end of the day we encourage personal responsibility as well, if you think a deal if way too good to be true and this person has no feedback or vouches then it could possibly be.
Our members vote with their wallets and good vendors have great reviews for the same reason bad ones get bad reviews and remember in a WORST case scenario you always have plausible deniability on your side.
Signing up is easy, though carrying out transactions is difficult — you're not going to want to use your credit card here, and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Litecoin are the norm.
The available products are fascinating. Like, who knows how this works:
