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World’s ‘largest illicit online marketplace’ is just a download away. (rfa.org)
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An app from a Cambodian financial firm accused of operating the world’s “largest illicit online marketplace” could be downloaded from Google until today, and is still available on Apple.

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[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

OpenBazaar, never took off

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

I think that had a lot to do with the fact that it was using Bitcoin as the currency and the fact that it was VC funded. Neroshop is Monero and not vc https://github.com/layters/testshop