Okay so I had an account on HANSA long before the AB takedown and temporary suspension of their accounts. I recently ordered from a well-known vendor who I"d rather not identify. The order did indeed arrive. Every time i've done anything over any market including HANSA i was careful not to use auto-encryption and used my own PGP software client on my computer (GPG) in order to encrypt to the vendor's public key any messages sent let alone my shipping information to the vendor. Now my order has arrived. I have never ordered crazy amounts like a pound, half pound, or even quarter pound. My question is 1) What kind of danger might i be in? and 2) Should i contact this vendor over his e-mail (assuming he's provided his real e-mail address over his PGP key) in order to try to help him retrieve his money back. I believe HANSA is technically a trustless market where they can step in and hand it over to him with their own key but with them going dark and LE in control i seriously doubt their going to give him their private key. He has been legit so what risk is their in me giving him his private key and contacting at all maybe even about further deals over his e-mail?
i mean, you seem like you knew what you were possibly getting yourself into and now youre unnecessarily being paranoid