Some inside information to follow, that should shed a small amount of light on just what an incompetent asshole this character is. Why am I posting this? Because ECC is a petty cunt and is the one currently doxxing people on this subreddit. He has threatened every other Cannabis-only marketplace or idea of one as stealing his 'intellectual property.' He has numerous sock puppet accounts and a fairly elaborate repertoire of personalities he cycles through on them. But most importantly, the doxxing. You went too far with that ECC.
ECC was, and is, the primary player behind the original (and also the NEW alpaca-developed Cannabis Road).
ECC's official story is that he was hiring a fellow by the name of Crypto to do the technical side of Cannabis Road. He was paying Crypto $1,000 per week, flat rate.
After the site was 'hacked,' blame was put on Crypto and talk of taking repayments for users out of Crypto's earnings was everywhere. I personally believe Crypto got tired of being overworked and underpaid and just left these bumblefucks to their own devices. Whether or not he took the 100k, or ECC took it, and split it with him, is all left to darknet history. My personal opinion is that there was indeed a hack from outside the known players, but it is mostly irrelevant anyway.
ECC was scrambling in the aftermath. He did not even have access to the admin panel of Cannabis Road. He attempted to get some RANDOM CUSTOMERS AND FORUM USERS of CR to help him, to no avail. Forum admins and vendors were approached asking for suggestions and ideas.
Most would tell him the game is up without access to the admin panel. However, ECC's ego makes this not a possibility.
After several forum members and random customers politely declined any involvement in a new project, ECC sought out other options, and that brings us to today. Now ECC has commissioned Alpaca to develop the new CR for him, on what terms of payment I do not know.
ECC is completely incapable of running a market, on several levels. One of his more famous quotes is that he wishes we could all just use credit cards instead of bitcoins. He has only the most basic grasp of the opsec necessary for this type of activity, and rarely remembers to even encrypt basic communications.
Putting your bitcoin on a site funded and run by ECC is worse than giving your coins away.
ECC will continue to attempt to "doxx" a random person who helped put Panacea together because he feels like that person has "stolen" his idea for a cannabis only marketplace. This is a seriously fucked up individual we are talking about here, with potential multiple personality disorder and probably a borderline sociopath.
Do not support ECC and his doxxing or his extremely questionable marketplace. I will try to answer any pertinent questions that do not reveal my identity.
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