No evidence of any kind, just pure speculation.
Do you guys also think there might be a LE among /r/darknetmarkets moderators?
No evidence of any kind, just pure speculation.
[31 Points] throwitwaywaywayaway:
[15 Points] roionsteroids:
So what? This is a public forum and not some kind of secret hideout lol. You know, they could just ask reddit nicely for logs and shit.
[12 Points] None:
One thing is 100% sure they are here.
[10 Points] None:
I'm not LE.....I'm Methman....I mean Batman....Bahahahaha!!!!!!!
[8 Points] thatotherthrowawayna:
Read Kingpin. The FBI infiltrated the carder markets all the way to the top. Set up a fake VPN so they could log IP addresses. They surely are here, and they may well be all the way at the top. Trust no one. Encrypt everything. Use different passwords for EVERYTHING. And make them longer than "asshole209".
[8 Points] CynicalElephant:
No, why would they? It's not like being a mod would give them any investigative advantage.
[7 Points] cactuzx:
That economist geezer is a dirty fed. Been around these parts 4 years. 100% fed. Pm for proof
[6 Points] 100x100ug:
I think my biggest reason for answering 'no' would be that there would be no innate benefit for them being a moderator. Yes, they could delete threads that perhaps go against their agenda, but to even to do so would be a difficult task without alarming others.
I think anything of value to the LE could be accessed here with a user account, and if they really did need certain information, I don't think going through the process of becoming a moderator would be worth it for them.
[5 Points] hopswage:
That's a bit like asking, "Do you think there are people subbed that don't do business on DNMs?"
Yes.
Look, take a deep breath and relax a little. Nobody has ever been arrested for exercising freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of press.
Right?
Wait, shit…
[4 Points] None:
Yes, I am LE.
YOU are currently being backtraced.
Am I fucked?
[3 Points] Theeconomist1wife:
I can 100% confirm econ is a fed... I'm his wife
[2 Points] None:
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[2 Points] Vendor_BBMC:
No.
Subpoenagate, the sub being made private while new mods did god-knows what, and the lack of a satisfactory explanation was to cover up commercial dirty tricks, not police.
I couldn't understand why cops would suddenly investigate a market that had closed (Evolution), instead of the ones which were still breaking the law. It turns out it was the same corrupt Maryland team who were extorting SilkRoad.
It didn't make sense to me at the time, or why the sub was suddenly owned by a brand new moderator I'd never heard of. Mods were leaving, gwern was acting like he was in a panic but the cops who'd visited him were telling him to act normal.
Umbreon, the disgraced RC vendor who I'm sure was an admin on Evo, suddenly started pretending to be a female vendor on reddit. He used to swing between utter cowardice and grandiose bravado all the time, fear and envy drove him. Whoever he was the most afraid of was the person he would suck up to and try to direct against others, and he clearly thought Economist1 was a cop on the trail of Evo staff.
God knows what they were REALLY trying to cover up, but it wasn't being cops. They did stuff that was too unprofessional to be police, and they kept saying they had proof that bitcoinfog was a scam, then go quiet like they were arguing about it behind the scenes or scared that somebody would catch them out. There were fight clubs, secret subs, I got flared with NOPROOF which was shamefully disrespectful, like a sign saying "kick me".
Then, when lobali stepped down it all stopped. It felt really sleazy and corrupt here, then when Economist1 took the helm it didn't feel like that.
I suspect that lobali was connected to Grams in some way. Around the same time he started the massive individual sponsorship payments to the DNMavengers
As you can see, 63 of their 66 disclosed donations are insignificant. EtherealityDNM has confirmed the two biggest were from Bitcoinfog-rival Grams.
I don't trust EthearalityDNM one bit, and the other mod DNMAvenger really hates me for some reason. He knows nothing about chemistry, and I respectfully asked him not to bet his credibility against mine but that's exactly what he's done.
https://pay.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/4bnjch/recent_meth_test_results/
It's only when you see the shower of shits the avengers have as moderators that you value the ones we have here. I hate people who cut drugs and I'm obsessed with improving drug purity. You would expect me to be their favorite vendor, wouldn't you?
[1 Points] Thriz_whistle:
That could certainly be the case, but it shouldn't matter.
I wouldn't behave any differently if I knew this was the case.
Well, maybe I would stop sending them incriminating information plus my name and address.
[1 Points] Lucyintehsky:
automod is the fucking LE!
[1 Points] None:
/u/theeconomist1 is a fed
[1 Points] BudgetBuyer:
While we're all throwing our political banter into this thread, Bernie Sanders has promised to make multisig mandatory on all future Darknet Markets #BernieOrBust
[1 Points] None:
LE would gain nothing by modding here. Go smoke more meth.
[1 Points] hooptydumpty:
anyone who asks if quantik is actually dead and for proof that AK killed him is LE
[-1 Points] Devoid_:
Defiantly. If the FBI spent 2 years on this forum they could easily infiltrate it all the way to the top. Just be responsible and professional long enough to build a history to be trusted. Why wouldn't they
/u/AutoModerator always wears a wire. Very suspect.