[Theory] DeSnake ran RAMP

This is purely speculation mods flair as needed

As we all know Alphabay was shut down this summer with its supposed head honcho killing himself with a towel in a prison in Thailand

Yet its common knowledge Alphaby spawned from carder forums, and hosted carders (if a psychedelic dealer [read: JOR] were to host a darknet market, would he allow fent, carders, etc?)

Everyone knows of Alpha02 (why was he 02?), Alexandre Cazes. But have you heard of RAMP?

The Russian Anonymous Marketplace was started in Sep 2012, nearly 1.5 years after Silk Road went down. It survived the dissolution of Nucleus, Abraxas, Atlantis, Outlaw Market, Alphabya, Dream, Darknet Heroes League, many many more (source: although gwern doesnt denote RAMP in his data: https://www.gwern.net/DNM-survival)

The RAMP (Russian Anonymous Marketplace) went down in July 2017. Funny. Alphabay went down in 2017. So did Hansa...

Maybe I want to believe that global police forces are somewhat united in their attempt to dismantle drug markets, maybe I want to believe the US+European govt's have sucked up their differences to work with Russia and truly have united in their ambition to end the lives of drug users. (Really its not all the people of these govts, just the authoritarian dictators/oligarchs gripping the life from the common folk because they have power)

We never heard what happened to DeSnake, if he was indeed a separate person from Cazes. Anyone have any ideas?

To me it seems DeSnake(number 1 source code provacateur) was also the anon admin from RAMP. Russia, even if it knew who the admin of RAMP was (would Putins ego let it last for 5 years? I dont know), given the intense sociopolitical strain, cannot just hand over its criminals to the US. That would mean they are working with them (else dont you think theyd of handed over Snowden by now?) to find DeSnake.

Speculation tl;dr: DeSnake was found. Thus the ending of Hansa (Hansa: a reference to Germany), Alphabay (Cazes had obvious opsec failures more than a few times [much like Ross... future darknet leaders take heed and learn]), RAMP, and now Dream.


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[6 Points] wombat2combat:

ramp guys gave several interviews and generally did not behave like sane dnm staff / actors should [doing everything to keep a low profile]. law enforcement probably felt pressured to do something since they claimed that Russian law enforcement does not care and tolerate Russian dnms. classic talk shit, get hit. something similar happened with that daily stormer website: they claimed cloudflare secretly tolerated / liked their agenda and then they got suspended.

that snake was involved in ramp is pure speculation, the only indication is the slightly similar time period. nothing more.


[3 Points] scattrbrn:

Nyet


[1 Points] FreshestNuts:

This is complete speculation half of what you said is just somewhat of a correlation none of this is sane. Send me whatever you been smoking on.


[0 Points] _Dreadz:

this is the kind of thread that gets someone like HumboldtFarms busted. Please use your head and stop trying to link shit together. the drug dealing world is not like the movies and all fasinating and murder mystery. I understand you want to ask questions and thats cool to be inquisitive but i dont think its a good idea to be publicly be trying to track down or link vendors together if you have that much time no offense but get a hobby or something. Streetbikes are great or do more drugs and dont worry about where they come from.