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Nah, the guy running this site was a moron and kept leaking his server IPs.

The owners previous identity was known for a long time on Dread (.onion reddit clone)

The "attacker" is so bad at consistently preventing consensus generation that I find it extremely hard to believe it is an attack at all, thus it isn't related to this market bust.

An attacker would (1) send much more traffic to dirauths or find an easier/better way to disrupt the dirauths' voting, and (2) ignore the fallback dirs.

(Author of the matt.traudt.xyz post)

I suspected something along these lines when I saw Library Genesis was down two days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25750184 These are weird days.