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Agora is a darknet market operating in the Tor network. It launched in 2013. All transactions on Agora are conducted in bitcoin.〔Zenon Evans. ("Agora Is the Web's Top Black Marketplace". ) ''Reason'', 2 September 2014.〕 Agora was unaffected by Operation Onymous, the November 2014 seizure of several darknet websites (most notably Silk Road 2.0).〔Andy Greenberg. ("Not Just Silk Road 2: Feds Seize Two Other Drug Markets and Counting". ) ''Wired'', 6 November 2014.〕 After Evolution closed in an exit scam in March 2015, Agora replaced it as the largest darknet market.〔Andy Greenberg. ("Drug Market ‘Agora’ Replaces the Silk Road as King of the Dark Net". ) ''Wired'', 2 September 2014.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Evolution Marketplace and Official Forum Go Dark in Apparent Exit Scam )〕 In October 2014 to January 2015, the art collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik explored darknet culture in an exhibition in Switzerland entitled ''The Darknet: From Memes to Onionland'', displaying the purchases of the Random Darknet Shopper, an automated online shopping bot which spent $100 in Bitcoins per week on Agora. The aim was to examine philosophical questions surrounding the darknet, such as the legal culpability of a piece of software or robot. The exhibition of the robot's purchases, a landscape of traded goods that included a bag of ten 120mg Ecstasy pills "with no bullshit inside" (containing 90mg of MDMA), was staged next-door to a police station near Zürich.〔(website of !Mediengruppe Bitnik )〕 In August 2015 Agora's admins released a PGP signed message announcing a pause of operations to protect the site against potential attacks that they believe might be used to deanonymize server locations: == References == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agora (online marketplace)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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