What do you mean most of my points are unverifiable? The mentioned features are reality today and can be verified easily by reading our Announcements or going over to profile and trying them out. Only the first one can not be trully checked as it is something known between very few trusted people, something we like to call distributed trust since I was not exactly accurate with the language terms used and did not fully elaborate myself. What I meant was, despite any new concepts for marketplaces that come up, none before, except this one, targetted the real problem which is reputation. Most of them propose very similar model to how usually the reputation system in general works in AlphaBay, even we have much better features and indicators which help buyers make the right choice, vendors too if they decide to work with customer or not and none proposed how the current state of DNM will transform into the 'next futuristic concept of DNM' while preserving the reputation and Web of Trust created. As I did not explain fully in my previous post, at AlphaBay we try to create a secure Web of Trust, true it can not have cryptographically-proven reviews yet or have decentralization in your portrait of the word which judging by your post is placing trust in some random people who came from random place with no previous verification to run server nodes of any kind, by being transparent and open about the work without sacrificing security, thus why we listed what WE are doing since no other marketplace on the scene is doing anything about the 'trust issue'. After every exit scam the core issue is the funds held by marketplace (something on which we also implemented distributed trust), distrust in the scene, losing contacts/reputation, vendor/buyer identities which were built with years etc., now at AlphaBay we have a chance to show an alternative way. Not only that by setting example that exit scams are not solution and one can be successful even with doing honest business and being smart/innovative, but by giving a chance to preserve/pass on reputation, create community links between members and different industries by having them together all under one roof to ask the questions, have proper discussions, apply changes and have a safe transition if any. And we are building the basics by listing you these 'unverifiable features' according to you, why you wish to ignore that remains a mystery to me.

As you said with your soar attitude, the true problem is the market exit scams. As I have said, we are working hard to create some form of decentralization by trusting some components in members hands in a specific way. Our concept will build way and popularity/approval by the community to use even more in the future decentralized markets/services whether they will be provided by us or not it does not matter. I do not want to spoil what we have in store by giving further details and you said we have features 'used by only a few users, irrelevant', I will personally make sure you are wrong for your future references/predictments as we have planned to promote these features even more and get the community even more engaged as in the end of the day, every single feature benefits the community or its security.

What ' ignore your many inconvenient security lapses' ? Our only security incident for which we paid 5-figure bounty which affected very few users directly was the API bug, feel free to list to support your claims about other lapses or whatever. AlphaBay is the most secure dnm to date with highest uptime but it does not get a good reddit story if you those facts as title or content does it?

Also praising systems which quote 'we assume that any communication, especially that of the customers, is done via a truly anonymous communication to ensure anonymity. In practice, the customers may use Tor [16] or other stronger anonymous communication systems' and giving us shit about an incident (due to code added after deployed due to some real-world variables which were not taken into consideration beforehand tests) which resulted in very limited damages thanks to our security in place, seems not right. AlphaBay has warned and advised everyone to use PGP for encrypted communication at all times so shifting this to us is hypocritical in my personal view.

Anyway, I will not be 'spamming' on your topics anymore and let you collect all the upvotes and karma whilst having highly intelligent conversations on here. Good luck in any future endevours.

Thank you. -DS