A former moderator of the now-defunct Tochka/Point Marketplace asked other former staff members to get in touch. The mod wrote that he had only returned to ask about the market’s disappearance almost 30 days ago.

The former mod has not publicly posted or commented on Dread since April 2018, making the return somewhat unusual. The only official comment from Tochka staff came from /u/r00tedlucifer on December 11; the mod wrote that nobody had heard from the administrator and to “consider finding an alternative source for your future shopping.”

The message is below. A signed copy is available here in text format and here on Dread. The signature matches the PGP Key stored on only0ne’s profile.

Hello,

I am only0ne, a former mod of Tochka. I worked in 2017-2018 on Tochka, alongside /u/earthling and some other mods.

Due to personal problems (I got fucked in the Crypto-Crash, which mostly killed my private assets) I varnished in 2018 - I am still in complete control of my PGP Key.

This message mostly targets /u/earthling as I would like to know what happend to him. We had many interesting conversations while working together and I learned much while working with him. He is a very smart person from what I can tell.

I do not think that he exit-scammed, I also do not think that he went to jail. Maybe he is in the hospital?

I would like to know what happend, thats why I came back from the shadows and why I now write this message.

If you or any other former moderator who worked with me, reads this, feel free to message for a quick chat.

I will check the personal messages I receive on this account for at least the next 12 months.

only0ne’s Signed Message

Signed Copy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello, I am only0ne, a former mod of Tochka. I worked in 2017-2018 on Tochka, alongside /u/earthling and some other mods. Due to personal problems(I got fucked in the Crypto-Crash, which mostly killed my private assets) I varnished in 2018 - I am still in complete control of my PGP Key. This message mostly targets /u/earthling as I would like to know what happend to him. We had many interesting conversations while working together and I learned much while working with him. He is a very smart person from what I can tell. I do not think that he exit-scammed, I also do not think that he went to jail. Maybe he is in the hospital? I would like to know what happend, thats why I came back from the shadows and why I now write this message. If you or any other former moderator who worked with me, reads this, feel free to message for a quick chat. I will check the personal messages I receive on this account for at least the next 12 months. This should proof, that this message is new: Current BTC Block: 000000000000000000117df7092d13c2fbf734d66cb9c0e708c58d5e0825f1aa Ethereum: 0xc65be86d532e92005c60dd78f9a613d27f4fbbf6fe3b756a862b413484c9a95f Best regards only0ne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEyuspAL3mKgNUwuSFjpIfgHOcMxcFAl4FAGYACgkQjpIfgHOc MxcARw//Z/LY9IYnrOylUDKcI4oZU41vo+PueU3zQvbrZMRez1PPYIFznOQ8he7M X9zXimi+/H2fgkGiWQh5u1qi9wA9YzmOUJT0cCpGnLLo/PTcGuzXJz/z80HAsDTD doarMOnJf/D/d+0L36TdNVuUx91d1oB0U8TQRxsYFp/WuGkmlKxUpFB1KAaQAnXH gz8rb5eRSopIRjspB7paYho7YS5xqFaHnOpPd09JGRhoug1tPwTCdsEHECxnOjmQ ZZvgFrc+NqLQ2d2OSbB28sRVWVcOgUv0b9ewidr3dBR7QP8o98rxhQBKflLQQv+L 3yITmM02zi89e88eweTrZMzjfn8ws5/6efWaJk8MQ5j+lLu84DmmP/Kp1rJGmZhp mz2xhz7F1XXwKleaf8ZCYcA8DYTMLk5/skrwsCH0L7gShX5MRXkhvdthWQmGjD59 e448ZVJhxHL/ro98IqL+HGPmjUBSRyIh63oX6i9GLSFZYvCgS2OJ2jIv1pH1rbHC 8pm0wK60xA66EyF5dfwjyM/airyO/DBjvUkbYwvkINF4GGqYT9bYpc4kRO8Rr3NM 1I079a8/wkyR6y0HXS2weCTft/oLZH0dSfIhWLcPIXbw66ZZdRH2Y7U2M39RI7Ow 5dbMABnWP8XxY7+PUuQwyxT7E9zb+Pz5KuOGov5u5YHrPUq09XY= =FhDY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

R00tedlucifer’s last Message

Signed Copy The signature is sadly invalid due to the edit. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 PS : No updates of admin as of yet 2019/12/25. Such a lovely market and not sign of coming back We so regret the loss vendors/buyers and the community had, we could only imagine if tochka can be back, so theridman and me decided to eventually bring up something more trustworthy, better and much simpler than tochka or anyother market for that matter. Please join tochka chatroom if you feel tochka community should be back together with a new face. Hello dread, This is regarding the offline status of Tochka Free Market, the admin was working on a fix with a few bugs on tochka code since 27th, DDOS was at full effect and from 28th Tochka went down and did not come back online. I am here as someone at least needs to inform users of whats going on with the market. We do not know if there was a bust, Tor security flaw, a Server crash resulting in Data loss, which made the admin unanswerable, which again has not been communicated to us at all. Enormous efforts have been made to contact the admin, but no success, he's been offline on his dread and private channels like jabber etc, which is not a good news. I and another mod @theridman took good time to think and declare the market's current situation and concluded people deserve to know the truth. we regret the funds not accessible for market users as we have faced the lockout too. Please consider finding an alternative source for your future shopping. vendors / users should you have any questions please pm me over jabber, will try my best to help you out. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEzM1EuV9qoDPcR26T/GxDmOSyH2wFAl4CrK0ACgkQ/GxDmOSy H2wGMggAtqTfLrvq47IjdtplzZIDgDv0RKXUk9ct/z1oEQjsPR61B8mlIUDuSO8k PzYVq3QJQlszGwRyYmbZyJB+Oix4QfteP0iuDaevGyOKm85qcYgr+tk0k78dYNhS TD6GngRTSjpHSmLNN5FgPdne2HFr0MQnVNH6pYtOz267Apn4f6xOocdWPh0pv+1X tsuGBOEjd+MTQFGD5lBRk5k9bkK42E5ENCU2kMfmysUNYMhDDHM4o9JwN9arKjXr gefYcgTo13dOCrvpP7CFkQxTSWd7rKj6msXnZBO5vBzSB0k1SfZF8H0Tqj0TQ9e9 /qzI5DNkqvlAk8EIlGbdXbla188LLw== =bYjr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----