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Ancient Darkweb Marketplace Wakes Up After 9 Years

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    The Nucleus Marketplace entity on Arkham
    The Nucleus Marketplace entity on Arkham

    Addresses belonging to defunct dark web marketplace, Nucleus, have reawoken after nine years of inactivity. The address has since transferred $77.5M in BTC to three fresh addresses: bc1qsh, bc1qm0 and bc1qm8. The main addresses tagged to the marketplace still hold 4,075 BTC, which is now worth over $361M.

    Visualising the outflows from Nucleus Marketplace’s wallets to the three new addresses
    Visualising the outflows from Nucleus Marketplace’s wallets to the three new addresses

    The Nucleus marketplace was a mainly drug-focused marketplace, with its main products including cocaine, methamphetamine and cannabis. In 2016, the site and its administrators suddenly became unresponsive, with many suspecting either a law enforcement takeover of the site and legal action taken against the team or an exit scam, which was popular with dark web marketplaces of that period.

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