Markets: Rapture

Rapture Market was launched during 2016 and shut down in November of 2018. It was a Muli-signature marketplace that offered a direct-deal function with Bitcoin and Monero. It focused primarily on drugs and to a lesser extent, digital goods. Only vendors who had a high trust rating on other markets were allowed to vend on Rapture Market.

During early November of 2018, Rapture Market went offline and caused much concern and speculation among users as they presumed it had been an exit-scam. However, the sites’ head administrator, “LegalAmigo”, made a post on Dread which announced the markets’ permanent closure following most of the markets’ Bitcoin being stolen by a hacker and the remaining funds being stolen by a third party that was entrusted to store them in a safe place outside of the markets’ servers. The administrator said there is a chance that the market could come back online if the stolen funds are returned.