Regarding Oasis and the theory's going around, I thought I'd like to share one of my own. (I'm dressed like the guy from the Agora login page, that's how serious this is.)
We all know the Feds paid alot of money to some very smart and very well equiped nerds to try and infiltrate and understand the markets (I'll insert a link if someone sends it). They created mock markets, as practice I presume. Oasis market was born shortly after all this occured. /u/oasismarket was very active in this sub. The mention of oasis or it's PR (summoned or not) and they were all over it. He was very friendly and always willing to offer help, to anyone. Other markets, vendors, anyone looking to code stuff, heck, even build you your own site. All you had to do was hit him up with a PM. Check his history, he loved asking for PM's. Oasis ran pretty smooth. Any bugs were fixed immediately, new things were being added into the market all the time and as any one of the Monero Gang will attest, "implementing a currency like XMR is no walk in the park". Pretty smooth for a market that only works on donations. Speaking of which, have any of you spent time at a place that ran soley on donations? Smooth?
But have no fear, a new market is here (coincidence?) https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/55bbdq/moneromarket_xmr_only_marketplace/. And so soon, wow! And what do you know, it uses the most talked about (new?) currency.
How many of you guys remember the whole /u/Doctor_Lisa /u/Plant_Success thing (SCAMMERS)? Both of these accounts (same person BTW) were making post left and right on various topics (mostly old articles). The good doctor even had a couple of her post at the top spot of this sub with 200+ upvotes! But this one was my favourite https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/539qdm/how_to_get_monero/. They also loved asking for PM's (check their history) and suckered in at least one user https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/53anbo/plant_success_is_a_scammer_pt_2/. I made a post about what was going on https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/53dka3/i_think_all_of_yall_should_know/ and they were banned by one of the mods (check the top comments of that post). The links I put up in that post are very telling of manipulation techniques used to manipulate a forum (that's us guys).
What I'm getting at is this, we know the government is willing to pay millions of dollars to universities and god knows who else to infiltrate the markets. We even know that Ross was alerted to a leak in his OPSEC right here on reddit! Do any of you think they aren't here, right now? Do any of you think they couldn't create a market to gather info, and hopefully make some bust? With funds like they have, how big could their operation be? How long was Onymous in the works? How many worldwide agencies involved? Do any of you think for a second they couldn't create their own currency shortly after the silk road was brought down? Would they really just 'give up'!?!?
A skittish, informed or cautious child never gets lured into the "rape-van" with promises of candy and toys. The stupid ones are the ones found ass-raped and murdered! (Like you'll get in prison if you fall for these traps) Never forget who called it a "Drug War" in the first place! The "War on Drugs" is a war on the people who use drugs!! We are at war people, let your Tin-Foil Armour protect you!! Wear it with pride!! And remember how our governments fight wars, lies, deceit, manipulation, force, occupation. It won't make you an idiot just because you don't trust something, but it can keep you ass out of jail!!
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