I am a 15 year old kid living in a US friendly nation. I have little interest in all your loverly drugs however 'hacking' is more of a interest to me. I am trying to decide if I should keep up these activities or walk away. I understand that kids my age are not always the best decision makers and I figure that getting an outside opinion on this might be a good idea. My main fear is getting prosecuted for my activities - either now or in the more distant future.
My current opsec is reasonable, anything darknet related through either Tails or Whonix. My past opsec wasn't so good and included using IOS tor browsers and tor-to-web services over a vpn. During this bad opsec I unfortunately visited some of the not so good links on the Hidden Wiki.
As I see it my two options are either to: carry on with my current activities while increasing opsec or to destroy my Tails USB and format all my hard drives that have ever had tor on them.
I am currently in possession of multiple credit card numbers (brought from evo) and have researched and setup two different options that will enable me to steal more than 1 bitcoin immediately.
If I decide to quit I have over 0.2 bitcoins that I would donate to (somewhere?).
Please put aside your ethical considerations and suggest what you think is the best thing for me to do in my situation. The $20 (0.03 bitcoins) reward is for whatever response I consider the most valuable to me (either option). If a moderator would be willing to hold onto the 0.03 bitcoin reward please PM me.
This might not be what you want to hear and I'm sorry if it is.
I would strongly advise you to continue your computer education and turn it more white hat. Companies pay very very well to have hackers test their stuff. You could scratch that itch you have and not risk jail or prison time and almost certainly get more money out of it long term that way.
Just my two cents from a guy not invested in this scene like the rest. You've got a long life ahead of you. You can do what you want to do AND not have the worry in the back of your head that one day you'll get caught.