How many of you were on SR1?

At what point did you join the DNM? This subreddit has really gone to shit, I feel like I'm reading the same shit over and over that's already been discussed/ brought up in the past.


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[30 Points] OzFreelancer:

I was on SR1. Life was more interesting back then :)


[31 Points] undeadhead420:

SR1 Gang. back in the good ole day when coin was 12$


[18 Points] GandalfTheEnt:

I always used BMR instead of SR1. My favourite market to this day.

I still have hopes it will return, but if it does it won't be the same. The community was much smaller and more genuine then.

The mods were brilliant there though. Any problem I had was resolved easily and quickly. I hope backopy is on a beach somewhere enjoying the fruits of his labour with some pretty girls and a selection of drugs.

Since then I've been stung a few times either by vendors or by markets. It seems like the more popular they get, the less you can trust the community.


[12 Points] shitbrik:

used sr1 a few times. Although I have received paks since msn messenger came out.


[10 Points] xannymanny123:

I was on silk road 1, first drug I bought was 100 hit's of 25-I


[8 Points] throwawayperon:

Been here since sr1 been riding the train through all the new markets and damn. There was something nice bout sr1, the DPR and all that. Ahh if only i kept the 40 coins in 2011ish I beleive they were around five dollars per. Wonderful days but Im sure many are in the same position ass me kicking themselves in the ass


[6 Points] JburnaDNM:

Me and Rxman was the first vendor I ordered from.

I didnt know about this sub until a long time later. Honestly I heard of reddit but didnt know what it was until I ran across this sub.

I think this sub is amazing and is ran professionally 99.9% of the time. The line this sub has to tip toe is crazy and thanks to the mods its never crossed. You have no clue how many times this sub saved my ass from a scam and has taught me tons. I dont think its gone too shit. I do think there is a lot of bitching cry babies though wink wink but then again I wasnt around when this sub was born.


[5 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

I feel like I'm reading the same shit over and over that's already been discussed/ brought up in the past.

That's been said many times before on here!

I was on Silk Road for 6 or 7 weeks as a vendor, as "Redbook"., with exclusive rights to sell BBMC meth on the darknet. It felt like a hundred years.

By that time it had been going too long. The forums were ANGRY, that nixture of Americans, money, drugs and anonymity.

People say it was better back then. Was it fuck. That first generation of darknet users were a bunch of wankers on the forums. Even the scammers from then see themselves as veterans with a sense of entitlement.

Fortunately, every new wave of darknet users is a bit less dogmatic than the one which preceded it, watering-down the it's been going downhill since 2012 wankeriness but they still think that everyone who heard about it after somebody told them is too stupid. They want to pull the drawbridge up after themselves like immigrants demanding immigration control.

Silk Road was the Myspace, not the Facebook. No, actually it was like napster. When Metallica's drummer had it shut down, it was too late:- something had changed inside me forever. I went from spending my entire wages on records, to never paying for music again. Silk Road showed me a way, and I was never going back to the old way.

I swam to Sheepmarketplace, then waited on the beach for all my customers to wash up there and email me, something We've done many times.

By the time I joined SR2.0, I could see blockchain.info when I closed my eyes. Eugh! It looked just like SR1. Like having to go back and work in that office you hated. It even had the same smell - like the handset in a public phone kiosk. When the escrow went walkies, I joined the first great marketplace.

"Old Silk tie" types think the darknet was set and perfected by 2013, but it was barely useable as a trading platform, and not a single one of the many problems with trading on the darknet has been addressed because of this attitude.

So far, all we've done is show that it could work, but we haven't MADE it work. Everybody is still fascinated by being able to pretend to be another grown man who agrees with himself, and renaming whenever they get a bill. Thats no way for a grown man to behave, sneaking around wearing a "throwaway". Its the darknet equivalent a tutu.

How would you feel if you went to a shop, asked the shopkeeper something, and he dropped below the till, re-emerging with a wig and moustache on?

Old-School Silk Road users think that's "normal" and never tire of it. No it's not! Grow up! Its like 66 year-old identical twins who still dress identically, still getting a little kick when people confuse them.


[7 Points] ShavingRaisins53:

Got my cherry popped by Sukey on the first road. Shit blew my mind. This sub is a trap that lures me back. Don't know why I bother to post here. Maybe because I feel like it is coming to an end and I want to know that I was here? It's a double life I lead with no friends and nobody to talk to about it. I guess that's why. I don't use any of the markets anymore. I have relationships that I have built that will end that last time that I fire imaginary internet money into the void and that last pack never comes. This is probably the 5th or 6th Reddit version of my self and probably the last. I remember dudes on SR1 selling blow and getting paid through Western Union and shit. There is a crazy story told on the pages of this sub and the true version is only known to a few people, not including myself. Nobody talks about DPR anymore, that whole thing is dead. Now just money, drugs, money. Even though I will never know any of you and you will never know me, still cool to have been a part of it. Boat drinks!


[3 Points] None:

Fuck I'm old.


[3 Points] None:

Got into right before the SR1 bust. First order was BMR. Made a bunch of orders for a couple of years and got out clean. Never lost a dime or got scammed.....Yessir...It was fun.


[3 Points] NextStopBelizePlz:

My first purchase was about 5 or 6 months into SR1.

Vendor "California Dreamin" and a cheap ounce of some fine shake, kept me steady.

Also increased my consumption of the stuff unlike anything I would be able to imagine. Went from an eighth every 5-10 days (buds) to an ounce (budget buds/shake) in no time.

CD was legit. Personable. And friendly as fuck. Like /u/canna-juice is 99 days outta a hundred LMFAO.

Straight up though. They all give the DNM's a good name.

RIP SR1


[3 Points] KnightoftheLions:

I was a mod on r/silkroad under the name mr_oblomov. Good times.


[2 Points] Throughawayup:

What do you expect? Things have stopped evolving. We've witnessed the same things repeatedly. This just isn't a new thing anymore. SOSDD.


[2 Points] None:

I was on SR1 and a little for BMR then I bounced and came back at the end of Agora


[2 Points] finallyadecentpic:

the book club tho


[2 Points] None:

Been here since sr1 started on a re different accounts. I'm usually not actively ordering though, and tend to take breaks for months at a time (as in now)


[2 Points] Magicpurpleponyrider:

Back when coins were 12 dollars. Imagine having invested a few thousand in btc legally and cashing them out now.


[2 Points] Hesitanttransplant:

I remember $50-60 BTC

Now who's coming with me?!?

TO THE MOON!


[2 Points] DareToHope:

been using the DNM's since april-ish 2012. .


[1 Points] samueladams333:

I browsed since SR2, never ordered until Agora


[1 Points] BoxAddict:

I've had accounts on all those but sheep, as well as some others. Transactions in those is a different story lol.interesting to follow that's for sure


[1 Points] AlpraKing:

I've been vending since the SR 1.0 days, on various different names, various different products.

Then decided to stick with Xannies.


[1 Points] Clix828:

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What is this?


[1 Points] heyfreshhhhh:

SR1


[1 Points] bananaequivalentdose:

I was as well


[1 Points] Color_Black:

I was on there. I lurk here.. but had to create an account if we're having a little reunion. Good to see some familiar faces here. Where's Jack N Hoff? I can't even see Bill Clinton's face now without imaging ol' Jack :)

Anyways, was on SR1 since early mid 2012. Oh the stories..


[1 Points] samwhiskey:

SR1 when an eighth of shrooms was 40btc. FTW!


[1 Points] None:

i was on sr1 for the last year or so.


[1 Points] Evo-Doner:

shadowcrew here bitch


[1 Points] Ulament:

I've been doing this as early as 2002. DNM wasn't just some recent "invention". Its just talked about more publicly and blatantly than it was in the past.


[1 Points] BarbarossaDNM_PR:

Shit hole is correct. I've seen them all, but Agora was the king of DNMs. SR1 was groundbreaking, and not only that but very interesting. The other's all had unique stories and things to them too, but those two, to me, stand out the most.


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] WTFpsycho:

SR1, Evo, Agora, Black Bank... present day shithole...


[1 Points] LedLevee:

SR1. Those were the days. Buying 3-4 coins for next to nothing and my solid hook up (who's in jail now, fuck the police and the ministry of justice).


[1 Points] None:

I got to use it once


[1 Points] Magicpurpleponyrider:

SR1, then sheep, the sr2, the evo


[1 Points] gmoney910:

Fuck SR1, BMR was easily my favorite market of all time


[1 Points] Litico:

SR1, BMR, SR2, BlackBank, Evo, Agora, AlphaBay. Skipped Sheep lol


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] EastOaklandCase_Boys:

Since the 90's, AOL dial-up.


[1 Points] None:

I started lurking after SR went down, didn't start ordering until later


[1 Points] rhcp484:

I was on the og sr. Remember that vendor Tony something? Tony767 or something like that...


[1 Points] Solid716:

I was a few months before it got taken down, wish I arrived a tad bit sooner.


[1 Points] Player_one2:

SR2


[1 Points] BigWicked:

I was 15 when I started using SR1 back when bitcoins were like $5-6 a pop, those were the days man.


[1 Points] Zathras_listens:

Since the very beginning of when people started to talk to each other in groups online people were complaining about the devolution of those communities. There is no garden to return to.


[1 Points] neviim:

SR1 is old? lol, that's cute. I was on zippybud and FTWR (along with thehive).


[1 Points] dndude:

I started back on SR1. I found the Gawker article while reading an article about the farmer's market bust. back in the days of DPR's book club, $30 BTC.....and bitinstant......fuck I miss bitinstant.

The only real improvement in DNM's I've seen since 2011 is the market saturation and subsequent price drop of MDMA. (looking at you PMK-glyciadte) not that I'm complaining.


[1 Points] crzboyg:

.


[1 Points] itsbooming:

Nah, but I was on Sub-rosa :p


[1 Points] bobbiggs69:

I was on SR, BMR, and Agora. I bought a few small things on SR2, but I did frequent the forums.

There's nothing around anymore like the original SR forums.


[1 Points] thepostalinspector:

I joined SR when bitcoins were $125 each. A vendor account cost 4 btc.


[1 Points] None:

SR1, life was simpler back in the old days :')

Edit: To clarify, I joined right before it was taken down. I hadnt ordered anything, just browsed out of fascination. I started ordering on SR2, took a break and came back with Agora.


[1 Points] RossWilliamUlbricht:

Me.


[1 Points] trickricksick:

Man I miss all the old venders FOREAL, who are the venders still here from sr1?


[1 Points] CDRCRDS:

sr 1 sr 2 kind of too busy these days to play


[1 Points] BarmeloXanthony:

I was but only browsed sr1... never got around to actually ordering and I regret it every morning I wake up


[1 Points] None:

I did pre-DNM stuff from around 2003 with services like budmail then other smaller ones that cropped up, then I used SR1 for a long time before a similar progression to the OP.

I miss £55 ounces from budmail, thats for sure :)


[1 Points] slimshadiest:

I miss SR1. Was not there for long but it was great while it lasted.


[1 Points] None:

Never was a part of the SR1/2 forum community. Learned about /r/silkroad and /r/onions (iirc) and later /r/darknetmarkets. I was more fascinated by the weird hidden services you could find out there in Torland.

Still wishing NoReason could wash back up one day.

I started participating in the community not long before Evo closed its doors. I did lurk around the DNM reddits like a sonofabitch from the day SR1 was taken down, though.

I didn"t buy anything too notable from SR1 and I'm kinda glad. Didn't have a clue how PGP worked :)


[1 Points] IAmSnesBoy:

Way back when everything was simpler - now there's so many vendors. It's confusing which one to choose.


[1 Points] powerman15:

Had an account on SR but never bought anything. Only looked around. I actually used the same username and password for almost every marketplace and not one has one of my accounts been hacked


[1 Points] Gomba1:

Ohh how we felt invincible back in those 2012 days, even when SR1 was down for like 3 weeks you would never even imagine anything like exit scam or bust, and clicking "new tor id" like 10 times in order to load 1 page was pretty much the norm lol

Then came the bust, the migration to BMR and then Sheep... (which existed during SR time but no one even thought about using any other market)


[1 Points] GrandWizardsLair:

The Grand Wizard's Lair opened in July 2012 on SR1. We had a BMR account but never did any business there: we also had accounts on Sheep, Agora, Evo and (briefly) SR2. Then there were our shops on Cloud9, BlackBank, Atlantis, TorMarket, TorEscrow, Kiss, Abraxas, and others long lost to the mists of time.


[1 Points] KserDnB:

This sub has 80,000 subscribers, what did you expect.


[1 Points] uxpusher:

Asks the undercover agent.


[1 Points] SR1RickBThrowAway:

I was on there when sellers accounts were free. i wish i sold mine.

I offered clean urine.

I wake up in the morning and piss excellence.


[1 Points] procowtipper:

Bring back Evo


[1 Points] topnodder:

Here since SR1 - other than the drama not much has changed for me, i order and pay, it arrives a day or two later and i leave feedback. Never had a problem. I feel lucky to have access to such a service.


[1 Points] darkouterwear:

I joined SR1.


[1 Points] OldschoolSR:

Never Misa offisa


[1 Points] None:

Silk Road. First Btc I ever bought was in a chat room for $1.99 a coin lol and you could actually mine with a Graphics card


[1 Points] XinruLiu:

SR1 still going strong on the dnm, fuck AB


[1 Points] In-nox:

I made 2 purchases on silk road 1. The first was a rc fent analog for cheap, vendor top rated and had like blotted paper product. Fe'd he claimed to send it about ten days go by and nothing and he isn't reaponding, then I told him I'd give him negative feedback and burn him in the forums if I wasn't refunded. He hastily refunded me and I bought something else. 2 and a half months later the blotters come in the mail.


[1 Points] AmberDingMe:

In a previous incarnation I utilised SR1, then went through a clean period and left about 50BTC on there, so imagine my annoyance on seeing that the US thieves had taken it down...


[1 Points] Miranda_Wright:

I was on SR1 and first purchase was from moveitnice. I have been around ever since. Off and on that is


[1 Points] SR1Throwaway:

I've used SR1, SR2, BMR, Agora, Sheep, AB, and Nucleus. Who knows what the future holds for DNMs.


[1 Points] None:

I was. Lost coins when it got shut down :( Spooked me off the DN for a while till Agora started poppin


[0 Points] None:

I agree. Came here very close to end when SR shit the bed. Seems it is all kids ordering Xanax now. At least they are told it is Xanax.

People are astounded when markets go tits up. It amazes me they ever run for over a year. Proper risk assessment suggests over a year you are in everyones lazer site. DEA, Scammers, thiefs, and the trash throw in.


[0 Points] mjvej4f:

I was on SR1. Although I didn't make an order until a few months before it's downfall. Ever since then, I've been deeply involved in the dnms. Glad I never touched sheep market though :p


[0 Points] Buriedeep:

Went through the SR1 drama, but had never made a purchase at that time. Have been here since the beginning of it though- even a bit beforehand. People were going on old forums for direct deals, or there was the RC game before SR1 too. People were still doing this before a marketplace ever appeared. Has been fun seeing how everything has unfolded & the potential it gives people, though.

It's a ride.


[0 Points] 2LMA:

I bought my first thing on silk road in 2011 in preparation for a music festival. 14g of weed and 5g of MDMA for I think 11 btc (around $20-25 per coin).

Weed got delivered in the sketchiest fucking package I've ever seen, even was stinking of weed

Had 17btc in my wallet when the site went down lmao

last thing I bought before recently was in 2014, cleaned house and smashed drives because it turned out a seller that went down was living far too near me for comfort


[0 Points] poopingnow:

Started on sr1 then took a few years break and I'm back...


[0 Points] None:

SR1


[0 Points] Lucid_Enemy:

SR1 but I wasn't a serious DNMer till evo I'd buy here and there but since evo I've baught on a regular basis since evo began


[0 Points] realstonned:

Oh yeah I still remeber buying coins at $4 a coin. How things changed.


[0 Points] god_send:

I was around on SR1, not for long though.

I browsed for a month or two before ordering, then when I went to place my second order I was met with the dreaded seized page.

Really ruined my day.


[-1 Points] responsethrowawayy:

Just logging in this once so I'm not answering any questions.

Watched silk road and joined in on silk road 2. Got some heat from interpol and managed to relieve them of some of their coins right before onymous. Took a short break to cool down before starting back up. Then agora and evo came. Evo left then agora and now it's all fragmented with shit scammers all over. Now I conduct (non fraud related) business in other areas pertaining to the darknet. If you're trying to make money don't think carding and vending are the only paths to go down.


[-1 Points] PhriskyDingough:

I was ordering shit online before SR1 was even a thing.... I was into SR1 and BMR, but then I got out and luckily missed out on SR2, sheep, Agora, and Evo. Now i'm here in this shit hole, and the shit hole isn't so bad actually....