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OK, I have never posted to reditt but as an avid reader of this drama, which for me started in Early June when things on SR and SR Forums started to seem wacky. Mods/Admins were not doing a thing to stop top selling vendors when they were very obviously selective scammers. I left sometime in June as I just felt something was way fishy. It was as if the site, or at least the atmosphere changed almost overnight. Others seemed to notice but like most were blinded by their pathetic "Blind Hero Worship" or the "do no wrong DPR, who turned out to be an embarrassment to all his defenders, I mean the boy was absolutely naive and a waste of air. What he allegedly created was something special but I wonder if he has not created the environment that we are now seeing with so many successful scams.
OK, what puzzles me and something I've not seen mentioned:
I believe that the downfall, original SR or at the least info about DPR, etc, of the was due to a group effort by vendors and, I believe Atlantis and possible BMR but Atlantis is who I think brought shit DOWN. Maybe they got popped and used info gained from hacking SR to help there situation.
Maybe they did dox him to the Feds but their plan didn't work out the way they hoped(more members) and ended up closing anyway.
What are the chances of collusion of large SR Vendors(I'm looking at you Emerald the Hash & cyanide dealer from SR who was a selective scammer on large, kilo plus items.) I mention him because he left SR at a very convenient time, and a promoter and vendor at Atlantis.
-- Did "Emerald" help Atlantis contribute to the downfall of SR, DPR or both?
-- Why did prominent technique member kwflem(sp?) leave at such an opportune time which such a cryptic message and references to "leaving Code for you to work on" to Astor... Who's name has been very very very sparse in all the documentation other than one quick comment right after SR went down and a really short mention of him in another blog.
So, I'd bet that Astor == Tarballs or Astor == Owner of one of the new markets or yet unbuilt markets due to the cryptic comments about passing along the unfinished code to him from KWFLEM(sp?). Until I hear some reason why such an active member disappeared and is not even mentioned.
So I know its a bit disjointed but the names and ideas are there. Part of me thinks that the FBI was greatly aided by inter-market wars. They cannibalized each other when there was plenty of money to go around.
just my unorganized 1/2 a Satoshi
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You could definitely be right, but why weren't there any indictments raised against the owners/purveyors of those markets?