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April 05, 2022, 11:49:10 PM
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Germany's cybercrime forces have stated that Hydra Market has been operating since at least 2015 with around 17 million customers, making it one of the largest darknet marketplaces in the world.

With help from the US, they seized 543 bitcoins while shutting down the operation:

The authorities confiscated 543 bitcoins that were valued at about €23 million ($25 million) following investigations tracing back to August 2021. They said several US authorities were involved in the probes

This was a very large marketplace, with more than one billion euros a year being transacted in the platform:

Sales at Hydra Market were at least €1.23 billion euros in 2020. ZIT and BKA said the site's Bitcoin Bank Mixer, a service for obfuscating digital transactions provided by the platform, made crypto investigations "extremely difficult" for law enforcement agencies.

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April 05, 2022, 11:50:25 PM
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This discussion already exited here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5393175

According to Bloomberg News, the market has 17 million client accounts seem a very huge market but this isn't a market used by Russians, even Ukrainians and the countries nearby are using it. Its only today that its busted. The should have done this long time ago when Silkroad had already being crackeddown.

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