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Type of site | Darknet market |
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| Available in | English |
| URL | sheep5u64fi457aw.onion (defunct)[1] |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | March 2013 |
| Current status | Offline |
Sheep Marketplace was an anonymous marketplace set up as a Tor hidden service. It launched in March 2013 and was one of the lesser known sites to gain popularity with the well publicized closure of the Silk Road marketplace later that year. It ceased operation in December 2013, when it announced it was shutting down after a vendor stole $6 million worth of users' bitcoins.[2][3][4]
- ^ "Sheep Marketplace | Deep Dot Web". Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ Adrianne Jeffries (29 April 2013). "Drugs, porn, and counterfeits: the market for illegal goods is booming online". The Verge. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ "Dark marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins". BBC. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Mandala, Ravi (1 December 2013). "Silk Road-like Sheep Marketplace scams users; over 39k Bitcoins worth $40 million stolen". Techie News. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2013.