I'm sorry to all of you, but most of you are not cut out for this world. It's the .onions I'm talking about, and not the ones with signed certificates. Everyone bitching about getting your money stolen; give me a fucking break. I read on here for the past year everyone predicting this was going to happen. The majority of you have been calling the owners/admins thieves, immoral, and just generally demonizing them on a semi-daily basis. But now you're surprised they took your money? You should be surprised they ever didn't take your shit. I really can't believe how and idiotic this is.
Now onto NSWGreat. Just to try to monkeywrench LE whenever possible. This guy was spoken to/flipped the night of the dox. Hence the quiet time while he and his new handlers put together a plan. It looks like that plan is to try and make amends buy buying reddit gold and refunding the early victims of his brainless exit scam (that obviously was going to work on at least some of you brainless priveledged children). They'll try to get NSWs Agora account unfrozen and start vending again. This is all this guy has to offer to LE in exchange for his freedom.
This guy was/is as fragile as they come, and this is really my point. There is no place for people like this in this world. This is a place where the un-fragile will always thrive and the rest will pay for it. You should all grow some tougher skin and stay far away from Sabu, I mean LEO, I mean NSWGreat.
One more thing, formatting a drive does NOTHING for data removal you fucking tool.
We don't know (OK, the Grand Wizard doesn't know) whether or not NSWGreat has been arrested or if he is cooperating with authorities. But it would not be unreasonable to surmise he was. If even half the stories floating around are even half true, he had an ongoing pattern of bad OpSec and doesn't appear to be the sort who would hold up well under interrogation. So while the Grand Wizard wouldn't state "NSWGreat has been flipped"quite so definitively as the OP, he would advise treating NSWGreat with the same caution one might show toward former SR admins and mods.