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- DrugHub has agreed to fully refund all users who lost money in the SuperMarket exit scam.
- Retro Market has gone offline. Circumstances of the closure unknown.
- SuperMarket has closed following an exit scam by one of the admins.
- The admin of Incognito Market, Pharoah, has been arrested by the FBI several months after exit scamming.
- Silk Road
- darknet markets list
- Popular P2P exchange LocalMonero has announced it is closing.
As I said publicly before, I personally don't need money from dread. In the dot com bubble I sold my company and have been living off the proceeds and investments I've made afterwards. This is one of the reasons why some market admins and vendors get quite upset when they can't bribe their way to get special treatment. I'm not here to make money to everyone's surprise. If I wanted to make money I would just take a week of my time, make a game changing market, wait a year, and retire with millions in crypto. Everyone with a brain knows that. A lot of the speculation, mostly from rejected market admins, come from that thought. But I don't. Why? Because I don't need to.
If you aspire to be like me, don't. It is a sad lonely life. You sit on the computer all day and can't talk to anyone about what you do. There are many lies and stresses you need to handle daily to just keep it up. As time goes on it gets easier (more so when you use an OS like Qubes) but there is always thoughts that you are going to make a mistake and that will be your downfall.
Unlike a regular industry where if you hit it big you get to do everything you could possibly want. Success in this field is just living a normal life where nobody knows really what you do. Money can come if you have the skills and reputation but that isn't foolproof. You may work years without ever getting paid. If you don't have the passion for what you do, you simply won't ever make it. There is a level of obsession good admins have that most people don't see. They demand for the best out of both themselves and those around them. Anything that doesn't meet their high standards will be cut. Mercilessly.
I take nothing from Dread's wallet. This is mainly because I don't need to but also because there are risks involved with doing that I'm not comfortable with. Of course I can never confirm that, and you don't know anything that I say about myself is truthful, but just try to think of the checks and balances. Does it make more sense to be in the pocket of one person or to be funded by many?
You get to talk to people over dread, from what i've seen, dread is a great community.
but the irl perspective, I understand why you cannot tell people, I've been in things where I wasnt allowed to tell people whatsoever.
I applaud you for your words of wisdom, and your smart thinking.
Someday I aspire to be like you :)
One can handle the stress on another level when it's connected to such a great passion. The passion is stronger than any bad circumstances, unless someone else is controlling ones life more than it ever should be. I hope you protect your soul and your freedom.