Bohemia has been removed from Dark Dot Win!

What happened to Bohemia?

Once the leading darknet marketplace, Bohemia market has been removed from Dark Dot Win (and many other link directories) due to ongoing issues with their withdrawal system.

The problems arose some months ago when vendors and buyers alike began to notice that withdrawals and deposits were extremely delayed...or in some cases completely missing.

After many reports of this situation and the ensuing drama often caused by missing money, the admin of Bohemia made a post on Dread explaining their side of the situation:

[quote]In a shameful and disgruntled set of events, our lead developer quite
simply decided to go "rogue" and choose their own path by slowly and
passively withdrawing small amounts of BTC over a prolonged period of
time from several accounts which had been pre-created and loaded with
small BTC balances. This activity (to our knowledge after concluding our
investigations, lasted for a little over a month).



Once the activity in question was brought to light and subsequently
admitted by this particular developer, they were instantly terminated
from the site and all operations thereafter. What we didn't know at this
time was that several other accounts had been pre-created by this
individual and again loaded with false BTC balances from within the
database, of which the credentials were evidently retained as the
accounts were accessed and emptied shortly after their departure, which
triggered new security measures we had already implemented for accounts
making withdraws without prior deposit / order history (as there's no
plausible way for their balance to exist) . The amounts were not
incredibly substantial but it did warrant an injection of funds into the
site to help mitigate the losses at hand.



This chain of events, coupled with the recent price increase of BTC has
been an extremely difficult situation to manage to say the least, which
is the sole and primary reason why withdraws have been taking a little
longer to process (hence why we've taken the necessary steps to stagger
withdrawals and implement a daily withdraw limit to help balance things
out). We have been processing withdrawals as quick as feasibly possible
without unintentionally sinking the ship.



As mentioned by /u/HugBunter
in his concerning yet completely warranted announcement post, vendors
and users alike have reported that they have received their withdraws
even if they've had to wait a little. Hopefully this will provide some
clarity to the situation and that we are categorically NOT going
anywhere.



We have been established for some time now and this is not the end of
the road (not for us anyway). And we speak directly to every individual
who may read this post that if your faith and trust for us has now been
tarnished then we are wholeheartedly sorry for that and you will not be
forced or persuaded to stick with us.



Here is our plan moving forward, and we only deem it fair that we give
you all the full transparency on our future together as a community:



First and foremost, FUNDS ARE SAFE, and everybody who is due will be made whole, bare this in mind before reading the following;



- - We have collectively decided that disabling the use of BTC for a
short period of time is the best course of action. This is solely to
clear the queue of outstanding withdraws and dormant balances with a
view to re-enabling BTC as soon as the above has been fulfilled.



- - All current BTC balances will remain untouched and outstanding
withdraws will be cancelled and returned to the users balance. Once this
has happened, all users will be given two options:



Option 1) To exchange their BTC to XMR on site (like for like as per the
set fiat currency on their account at the time of exchange) whilst BTC
is disabled. For example; if you hold 1 BTC on the platform, you will
receive the fiat equivalent in XMR, this balance will then be ready for
withdraw / spending.



Option 2) Continue to wait for the re-implementation of BTC and withdraw their BTC balance when this happens.



Once BTC has been disabled on site, any and all associated BTC deposit
addresses (old and new) will be obsolete. So please do not deposit as we
cannot be held responsible for any missing funds once BTC has been
disabled.



** THE ABOVE PLAN WILL BE IMPLEMENTED WITHIN THE NEXT 48 HOURS AND A
SITE WIDE ANNOUNCEMENT AND DREAD ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE PUBLISHED AT THIS
TIME **



Please know that this has not been an easy decision to make, but more of
a reasonable plan of action to rectify the mess left behind by the
developer mentioned above.



At this stage we feel that this is the best option moving forward as
we're unsure which way the value of BTC is going to go with the upcoming
ETF decisions within the next two months, it could counteract and
really put things underwater, but we thought it be most respectable to
provide a temporary solution and utmost clarity.



He took from us all, but regardless of how you may feel after reading this, we love you all and we will see this through.

Once the admin made that post, users were skeptical but optimistic that Bohemia was not going the way of the feared exit scam but rather that they had come clean regarding their issues and were on their way toward resolution.

Hugbunter, the admin and founded of Dread, also became heavily involved in the situation, acting as a medium between Bohemia's administration and many upset vendors and buyers. Hugbunter provided ongoing reports that the Bohemia admin was processing missing withdrawals and sorting out lost funds and everyday seemed to yield a more positive direction.

Unfortunately, since that time, Bohemia's issues persist, communications from administration have been silent and reports of missing withdrawals and deposits are widespread.

Why did we remove Bohemia?

At Dark Dot Win, we provide ourselves on only providing links to trusted and reliable services. We take extreme care to verify every service that we are implicitly endorsing and we understand the trust that goes into clicking a link that we provide you. Until Bohemia is able to fix their issues of missing money and provide vendors and buyers with their funds at a reasonable rate, we can no longer encourage the use of this market.

We firmly hope that Bohemia administration is able to solve their issues and cover all the lost funds - and we do believe that Bohemia is trying to do so. Hopefully in the near future we will relist Bohemia but, until then, we can only wish Bohemia "good luck!"