I'd like to share a story about the day SR1 was seized.

It was a clusterfuck of epic proportions for those of you who remember. Around. 9 am east coast time.... That horrible horrible seizure logo went up. The forums were freaking out. BMR set up a refugee camp to rival Houston during hurricane Katrina.

My problem, was that since early August I had taken a liking to ECP. Big fucking mistake by the way. I always ordered express from deezletime who was such a pro vendor. Except deezletime had mysteriously quit logging in over that weekend. But...my coin was tied up with him. So I bought some more Btc quickly off of LBC and put em in my SR wallet. The ...the seizure. Now I was out two transactions worth of my heroin. And as any good junkie knows, when you depend on your supply coming through and it doesn't. It gets real uncomfortable real quick. I had bought a couple times from a vendor people really trusted (not DT) and I had his torchat ID. I login and basically say "man be super careful right now but...but...can you overnight me some ECP it's going to get bad for me soon." We haggle for a minute on how much Btc. He even agreed on bank transfer.

Long story short I got him the Btc. At this point my junkie fund had dwindled the fuck down. I had maybe 70 dollars to send in Btc.

But but....the very next day. I got it. Seriously the road closed. There was chaos. I found one of the top vendors at the time on torchat. Sent him Btc and he still sent me the goods like clockwork.

Not sure why I wanted to share this but maybe it was a testament that even with the seizure. It was very clear that this darknet wheeling and dealing is here to stay.

Note: seriously nobody ever fucking found out about deezletime. Also I haven't ordered anything from the DNMs since then. That cold dreary day in October. Also the vendor gave me much more than what I had bargained him with.

Vendor was SRG if anyone can decipher. I'd rather not even say bc I think he still operates and no one talks about him. Which is good bc he keeps low profile but still churning shit out. I'd be buying from him if I was doin that anymore but...shit ruins lives bro.


Comments


[72 Points] saystheleon:

I remember it like it was yesterday. I needed some MDMA for a rave, so I decided to go to Silk Road, which is what they called Agora in those days. So I logged onto an .onion site, which was the style at the time. Now, to make a purchase cost a bitcoin, and in those days, bitcoins had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for some heroin, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was that I logged onto an .onion site, which was the style at the time. They didn't have i2p because of the war.


[18 Points] WindowsPsycho:

I remember where I was the day it SR went down. I had just taken some 2c-e and then remembered I had to finalize so I got on SR only to see the FBI logo... It was pretty trippy.


[9 Points] MrCrappy57:

It would be interesting to have an archive of "where were you when SR1 was seized." My story: I had just burned an address b/c of something scary that happened (I don't want to go into all the details). I had recvd calls from law enforcement and I was in total panic mode for about a month. I basically torched every shred of SR1 use and donated all my remaining BTC to the EFF. I was completely repentant, asking God to forgive me, all that shit. Then a few months went by and I got comfortable again, really needing my DOC (oxy). I logged on and saw that notice...then they news started coming from San Francisco papers...the library, the agents, the whole story. I went back into freak-out mode. I wonder how many people in the world were freaking out on that day. Even though this story has sort of been a tiny blip on the national news media, I believe Ulbricht changed the world forever. I feel like we have all been a part of this thing and it's an incredible story that is still going on.


[10 Points] ILOVELSD:

I sitting in my toilet taking a shit when I found out SR1 went down. I was in shock. I was told it was unstoppable and that Feds had no way to trace the SilkRoad, but like the Titanic the ship was not unstoppable this ship too could sink.


[6 Points] givemeoil420:

i was looking around the road shopping for some hash and bud when i decided to watch some you-tube... took some dabs.... got a message from a friend that said " umm do you know why sr isnt working ? some fbi logo ???" I refreshed my page to see 2k gone from my account... After a moment of silence i was ready to be taken in by the BMR refuge camp ... walked to the bank to get some more BTC and was ready to recuperate my losses... The next day i had some wax ready to be ingested ... still think about how much that 2k would of been worth at its peek :(....


[5 Points] None:

I was lucky not to have lost very much, probably about 8 bucks worth of btc. I was browsing SR then all the sudden I refreshed and there was the "This hidden site is seized" was put up.


[5 Points] powerMETALtony:

I still listen to this, and it still makes me tear up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di5NSU5yuKE


[4 Points] s7w7:

I had just opened a pack from Subs and tried to log in and release the funds when I saw it. I thought for sure I was about to go to jail until I calmed down and could think rationally again.


[4 Points] mad87645:

I wasn't into SR (I got into DNM after the whole sheep fiasco, still used street dealers and friends of friends like a chump) but a good friend of mine who was and still is very heavily into bitcoin and mining used SR1 for all his orders (mostly weed, LSD and MDMA). Occasionally when he got some really good stuff in I would buy some off him because the drugs where I am from are generally shit in comparison to the rest of the world.

Eventually after realizing the quality of the stuff on SR was too good to pass up, I give him some money and he gets me 2 grams of MDMA sent to my address. It arrives no hassles and I spend the next couple of weeks dividing it up among friends and acquaintances at parties and clubs. It absolutely goes down a treat and I start to think this is a better way than dealing with street guys.

Well of course, about a week later SR gets shut down. My friend calls me at like 12:00 at night to say that SR has been raided by the FBI, they have the servers and tells me to Hootie Hoo. I toss the ~500mg of crystals I still had, as well as my weed and bunk molly I bought off some local guys. My friend threw out the old laptop he used to make all the orders off, as well as all the gear he had bought and we both lay low for a while. Of course nothing happens but we were worried for a bit there.


[4 Points] dopezest:

At first I thought it was a joke, well I strongly wanted to believe it was at least. Then I went to an edm show that night and after the show I was reading the news on my phone and found out the shutdown was for real. Made for an awful methylone comedown. Next day my two orders arrive and I felt bad for not being able to finalize but I was so happy to have my final packages. At that point I didn't even realize more darknet sites would come I pretty much figured it was over.

What was really weird is that I used to buy my bitcoin from sellers on silkroad and a few days before the seizure I bought something like 150 dollars worth of coin and the bitcoin vendor gave me an extra 100 for no reason. I spent the 150 and stupidly left the extra money in my wallet. But in the end I only lost a few dollars of my own money. I wonder if that bitcoin vendor knew what was coming and just decided to hook me up with extra cause they had too much to cash out or something. Idk but I still wish I had spent that free money haha.


[2 Points] Thameswater:

Thought this was going to be about you being set up by a vendor. Me. I logged in like 2 days after it was seized as I didn't use it much and only used it to buy 3g Max of weed at a time. Wasn't even on reddit then, or the forums, google mainly. One of the google results was a reddit post, had no idea how to use reddit so just read now and then. Then discovered bacon reader. And the rest is the present and the future


[2 Points] ravelaluna:

I wasn't around for the original SR...just sheep Marketplace +


[2 Points] None:

I had just pulled up to my PO box when I got a tweet from BBC breaking news about it. I was like well fuck.


[2 Points] Fbulol:

God I don't like to think of those times. I had about 5 hits of acid left because I thought I could always get more. Those got eaten pretty fast and all that was left was a sheet of 25b-Nbome that my friend bought for mad cheap.

Me and my gf probably did 60% of that sheet over the next couple months until the first sites started coming back up.

Dark times indeed


[-10 Points] None:

Cool story bro