One of the funniest things in the world to me is when libertarian bros, whose entire ideology is built solely on trust in non binding agreements, get destroyed when one side breaks the trust. It happens every single time and it is always funny. Non binding trust agreements can only work in a world built around human empathy, community, and mutual aid (aka: anarchism). Individualism and trust based ideology are at direct odds with each other, and yet libertarians are literally too dumb to realize this, and they fall for it every time.

I'm not saying that incognito market is a libertarian site, or that its users are libertarians, but this sort of thing is exactly what the libertarian ideal looks like. A completely unregulated marketplace built solely on the basis of trust. Every single time it happens it backfires spectacularly. It's the oldest trick in the book and people keep falling for it.

I love ancapistan.

we never did what we were claiming to do with your data but this time we'll really delete it if you pay us, promise

Wow that's pretty wild, even for the darknet. The operator is putting a lot of heat on themselves by doing this.

To think, if we all legalized drugs then there would be none of these darknet exit scams.

It sounds like those who practiced proper OPSEC are unaffected by the extortion. Hopefully that encourages more people to take their own OPSEC seriously.

I would simply not use the Internet for anything illegal enough that this is a concern

Incognito Market requires the loading of cryptocurrency to a site-based wallet, which can then be used for in-house transactions only.

That's like paying for in-game currency in a video game. Losers, lmao.

For christs sake:

Only ever explicitly discuss serious illegal activities in person, preferably outdoors and without any technology on you

Only coordinate meetings to discuss the above over an encrypted messaging method such as signal, and in this avoid specifics and keep this to an absolute minimum (metadata can also be incriminating, and phones out computers can be compromised)

If significant payment is involved, cash, barter or work trade are the only acceptable forms. Ever.

Don't be a fucking sucker

Any questions?

Lol, Crypto

Cryptobros stay losing

"we scammed you with what amounts to signing up for and engaging with a complicated scam mailing list, so here, sign up on this mailing list to stop our extortion"

Smells like yet another CIA grab after Taliban liquidation of poppy fields strained the black funds. Then again, Pentagon and letters can embezzle money completely in the open without any consequences so idk.

I feel bad for the small people who will be scammed, incarcerated or otherwise have their lives disrupted due to the state/corporate enforcement of unregulated markets.

it's not perfect but it's the best system we have

"Now that we have explicitly fucked you over and shown ourselves to be completely untrustworthy pay us more money and we promise we won't continue to fuck you over."

Anybody who pays that fee is awfully gullible but i guess for a lot of people they probably don't have a lot of options.

Shit like this makes me glad I’m not involved with drugs anymore, but like man PGP encryption is so basic

Wow, yeah I can't even think of a market that shut down without exit scamming (unless they were seized by feds first). But this really takes the cake, never seen anything like it.

Never leave your money in a market wallet and never rely on a market's encryption... Use pgp.*

*Unless there is a new encryption/security measure that is used now. I stopped using markets a long time ago (like 2017) once fent started popping up in regular non-opoid drugs.

I'm so stoked, a couple years ago I was about to buy a space heater for my office before someone pointed out I could just use my and my SO's new 3080s as a space heater. So I got a mining program thing and ran it when I wasn't using the computer, and made like 800 dollars over the winter. The mining rate plummeted later and is still extremely low (can't make hardly any money on it anymore). The price also plummeted to like 300 dollars. Now just the other week I figured out how to sell the Bitcoin and got 1000 dollars... (Minus 25 to convert... Minus another 25 for wire transfer to avoid giving some shady company literally ALL of my bank information, minus 10 dollars from my fucking bank for getting the wire transfer....)

So I got 940 dollars right at the very peak of the Bitcoin price a couple weeks ago and it's still down way below that. It might go up more later but it's not going to quintuple, there isnt enough money out there unless some more countries get taken over by Bitcoin nutjobs. I'm glad I could contribute just a little bit to the price crashing

I don't usually use language like this but the situation is exceptional

ballsy as fuck

DNMs are the most amazing example I've seen IRL of what it would be like to live in Ancapistan.

Granted I still prefer DNMs existing rather than not until we get legalization for all psychoactives.

This is good for crypto.

This is good for bitcoin

Anyway, this is a reminder to always use Monero or else ur a lib.

Incognito Market also now has a Payment Status tab, which states ”you can see which vendors care about their customers below.”

More like “you can see which vendors will fold at the first sign of trouble”. There’s no way the people who just stole from you and are now extorting you are trustworthy enough for the ransom to be worth it. They have all the leverage and no reason to give any of it up. Aside from having a shit ton of incriminating evidence in their possession, but the ship’s clearly sailed on avoiding that, “whitelist portal” or no.