Am I the only one who remembers Alpha02 doxxing himself in the opening header?

I remember when this happened, it was a big joke like "haha this young kid is running a market" "looks like its not going anywhere" etc. I think people were spreading the idea that he was only 17. Then when the site took off everybody seemed to forget he had done that, and were sure he sold it to russian carders, or they were in control the whole time.

I know its not a mandella effect type of thing going on either, Im not crazy despite how I sound. Pretty sure the idea was the AB admin was "laying low" somewhere "probably in russia" as BM and DeSnake and company ran the show while he just collected on the backend as a direct result of doxxing himself so early on

Bonus: it seems pretty plausible that was the scenario, and if thats the case, i wonder where all the mods and admins will play into all of this


Comments


[6 Points] TILYouLoveDrugs:

Any chance you could post a link to these rumors? How exactly did he doxx himself, what did he say? Cheers'


[3 Points] xSwrvs:

I'm pissed because I've been around for a while and now I swear I remember hearing people say "alpha02 doxed himself" as a reason not to use AB back when agora was still top dog


[3 Points] Not-lying-to-you:

I seem to remember that, too, so you're not making it up. There were so many markets opening & closing in those days that a person couldn't keep them all straight. And they were all terrible, for the most part. They were always getting doxxed, seized, hacked, or falling into sinkholes.

I had forgotten all about this thread until last night: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/207mk9/hansamarkets_ip_address/

When I came across this, which reminded me: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/6oqfje/was_this_the_same_hansa/


[1 Points] thatother1acc:

No way I think I remember what you are talking about. This was a long ass time ago. Maybe sr1 or sr2 days


[1 Points] TransatlanticAB:

What was with the whole "dont target CIS countries and no fullz from Russia" etc if this guy was Canadian?, were the servers stationed in Russia?, scared of Putin?, i dont get it.


[1 Points] ice_cream4breakfast:

Yea, this happened and that's when he made a new online identity and "switched" admins or something like that.


[0 Points] None:

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