Description
TL;DR: A five-layer framework for understanding why dark-web marketplaces often survive the shutdown of any one site.
About This Document
Anagu Emmanuel John combines technical infrastructure, governance, finance, community, and institutional enforcement in an integrative literature review. The paper examines anonymity networks, cryptocurrency, vendor migration, portable reputation, decentralized financial systems, regulatory cooperation, and blockchain intelligence.
Why Bitcoin People May Care
Bitcoin became a public subject partly through darknet markets. This paper focuses on the ecosystem that grew around those markets and argues that resilience emerges across layers: remove a platform and vendors, reputations, communities, and payment methods can move elsewhere.
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Document Details
- Title: The Evolution of Dark Web Marketplaces: Structure, Resilience, and the Illicit Economy
- Author / organization: Anagu Emmanuel John
- Year: 2026
- Document type: Cybercrime literature review
- Pages: 11
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