Hopefully my rephrasing of the title satisfies whatever asinine and arbitrary rules the mods are deciding to enforce today.
For whatever reason, I always had a soft spot for Nucleus while it was operating and didn't understand all the hate that it got. There was constant speculation that it would exit scam, so when it disappeared it seemed like not a lot of people were willing to entertain other ideas, especially since BlackBank went down around the same time with similar circumstances.
Not touching all that money after so long really seems like it puts that idea to bed though. Even if there was heat on the bitcoin, the surge in value since they left would seem like enough to bring anyone out of hiding, yet not a satoshi has moved.
Most likely is that the admins got locked up for something else or died, but leaving so much money behind without even a whimper just flies in the face of everything else we've seen on the darknet. SOMEONE should be after that money, but it seems like everyone associated with the market just ceased to exist.
Another DNMs mystery:
How /u/AlpraKing became so successful with his degree of autism.
We may never know.