Go for it, Blue Viking.
I never thought I would live to see the day when a large US Vendor lifted a finger during a marketplace exit scam.
Forget about the "Evolution administrator" British heroin addict on Reddit who confessed to his role in the scam and struck the finishing blow. He was already unemployed by then.
The real heroes were the two mainland Europe Evo moderators who made themselves unemployed yesterday morning out of conscience. One of our vendors had been collaborating on a project with them, and noted their increasing unease over the last week.
Yesterday morning, they left Evolution Marketplace and became employees of a British Tor vendors Association member. He contacted me around 10AM, and the full members voted "Yes" on "Devolution" unanimously.
One of them had 43 BTC in escrow, which he voluntarily wrote-off, knowing that we all agreed to ship orders during a robbery (this is his 6th).
Our vendors on Evo had one hour to get all their orders off there and say goodbye to the site for the last time. RedBook of BBMC messaged Agora admin to warn them to expect an influx of new users.
At 11:15 GMT, I pressed "send"
as usual, american vendors completely disappeared, and their customers, well.... you just gave us stick for doing something (which I'm going to give back in a minute).
Evolution’s desperate owners countered with a tribute post. Being carding fraudsters, it concentrated on our members drug dealing and was heavy on the meth jokes. It was already too late, we were pointing at the evidence, and the usual american trolls were looking at our finger and saying how British the finger is, instead of looking where it was pointing.
Evo was abandoned 10 days early, saving users and vendors millions of dollars. A new marketplace called “ironclad” was hastily launched to try to hoover up the displaced Evo vendors before they joined Agora. It should have launched a week before Evo was scuttled, its timing 3 hours after BTVA’s marketplace warning fatally holed it below the waterline. It won’t survive.
A third Evolution moderator, a British heroin addict, hastily changed allegiance when he knew the gig was up, and put Evo to the sword with his secret insider knowledge that he was part of a scam.
Please don’t credit him with this. He would still be scamming for another 10 days if two of his european compatriots hadn’t come to the BTVA with information, because we were the only vendors they felt they could trust to be uncorrupted, and who would have the balls to finish off the owners of a darknet marketplace. We’ve got form for it.
You are the first US vendor to grow a pair, BV. So I nominate you as the boss of the ATVA.