Sat Feb 27, 2016 11:43 pm

There is a mystery spike in .onion addresses - or what the public knows as dark market sites / hidden services addresses.More than 25,000 new addresses have surfaced in the last few days.Reasons and Speculation vary from:A new chat client Ricochet that uses Tor network. wWith world concerns over privacy and identity protection 25,000 subscribers in few days seems reasonable.No doubt it is the biggest increase in history of Tor Network.Its possible a super Botnet , or group of hackers are releasing ransomware. Although attacks are often , yet not on this massive scale !Some even point out to the new version of Bitcoin, and the new update released.I quote (HUGEWHEELS) :" Bitcoin Core will use Tor automatically to connect to other .onion nodes if the control socket can be succefully opened. This will positively affect the number of available .onion nodes and their usage."The Tor network is expanding at very rapid stage, and the huge spike points out in all directions.The only reality is combination of TOR + Bitcoin + IOT is the new age of internet and money.sources :