[PLX-2M]

Another .onion marketplace has imploded. According to darkwebnews.com, Nucleus was among the top 3 biggest marketplaces on the Dark Net. This underground market featured over 18 thousand listings with 11 thousand of those listings being drugs and drug related. For currency, the site accepted bitcoins, but also darkcoins and litecoins.

Nucleus Market Reddit chatter

[mothered]

What makes me laugh Is this: 'Dark Web marketplace “Nucleus” vanishes – and no one knows why'.

Given the nature of the site, It's not hard to workout Why It disappeared. I think they should rephrase It to How It disappeared.

[Wildfire]

I'm going to guess three scenarios:

1) Owners took the money and ran.
2) They got hacked and someone took the money and ran.
3) Raided.

[PLX-2M]

This Reddit speculation based on the bitcoin wallet activity seems convincing (arrest scenario): link

[Wildfire]

Some logical explanations in that Reddit thread, quite amazed actually. o.o

[Blue]

This Reddit speculation based on the bitcoin wallet activity seems convincing (arrest scenario): link

Just read through this, prayers for the Nucleus owner, and admins.

[Wildfire]

Just read through this, prayers for the Nucleus owner, and admins.

It's pretty clear the administrator is most likely being grilled into confession for crimes in an interrogation room somewhere. Such a shame.

[PLX-2M]

It's pretty clear the administrator is most likely being grilled into confession for crimes in an interrogation room somewhere. Such a shame.

The interrogation room most likely looks like this -

[lux]

Was about to order the night before I went down. Glad I didn't - new vendor found yo

[Blue]

Was about to order the night before I went down. Glad I didn't - new vendor found yo

I'm using AlphaBay.