Darknet’s most popular markets for drugs and bespoke carjacking services is mysteriously offline Wednesday. Evolution black marketplace opened in January 2014, and gained popularity after the shutdown of Silk Road and arrest of its unassuming founder, Ross U lbricht. At the time of its apparent vanish, Evolution was home to nearly 20,000 drug sales, far more than Silk Road or Silk Road 2. A post on the r/darknets subreddit made by a user named NSWGreat claimed to confirm that the Evolution’s administrators Verto and Kimble had shut down the market, and escaped with users’ bitcoin funds.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/03/evolution-drug-market-bitcoin.html