[3] Shortly after launch, Atlantis deployed an aggressive marketing campaign to compete with Silk Road.
[2][5] The video advertised Atlantis as the "world's best anonymous online drug marketplace" and outlined offered features missing in its competitors.
[7] Like other markets such as Black Flag, Atlantis' owner closed the site out of fear of arrest.
I was messaged by one of their team who said they shut down because of an FBI doc leaked to them detailing vulnerabilities in Tor.
"[9] There are sources, including the site's staff, who believe that the closing was outright theft,[10] with the owners stealing its users' bitcoins.