I was a freshman in college when this happened to me. I was a regular kid, went to class, partied, smoked some Cannabis. I used to buy everything from my local dealer. However, one of my friend threw me the idea of using silk road, which used to be a really popular dark net platform that could be used to buy almost anything. I was using silk road for quite some time, and to great success at that too.
Not a worry in the world. At one point, I decided that I was going to sell what I was buying and make a good return.
I decided to buy about $1,000 worth of stuff to, ahem, sell, and it was at that very moment that the owner was arrested and the site went down. Too bad for me, I had already sent my thousand dollars’ worth of bitcoins to the trader through silk road. He got my bitcoins to his wallet, but I never got my delivery. That’s pretty much how I lost $1,000 trying to make some! Oh well, I’m well past it now, but as a college freshman, in need of money, I was super pissed. The worst part that I couldn’t do anything about the money that I lost since the website was down and what I was doing was kind of illegal so…