Silk Road successor in the black market gun game shuts down

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There are two possible outcomes in the near future. Either Silk Road and now Black Market Reloaded are harbingers to a successful crackdown of the bad worlds on the web, or they’re simply going to drive it all deeper into the dark corners of the internet.

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Black Market Reloaded, one of the most successful Deep Web black markets of all time and the heir apparent to Silk Road, has abruptly shut down. Founder Backopy announced earlier today that the market’s source code was discovered and leaked by a hacker.

Attempting to connect to Black Market Reloaded leaves a user with an error message: “Error connecting to DB!”

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