**I posted this 10 days ago, but it was removed shortly after it went up due to topic limits. I am sorry if you are seeing it now for the second time. This story has otherwise never been posted in this sub.
In 2013, German teenager Maximilian Schmidt secretly created a dark web business called Shiny Flakes from his childhood bedroom. Over the course of 14 months, he sold an estimated tonne of drugs of various types through the postal system.
In 2015, at the age of 20, he was arrested with several million euros worth of illegal drugs in his bedroom. He apparently made two mistakes that led to his capture: a mistaken address on one of the packages that led to the package being returned and ultimately opened by the postal service, and the fact that Schmidt also shipped all his parcels from the same post office which had CCTV coverage.
In addition to the confiscated drugs, law enforcement recovered some of the Bitcoin that Schmidt had received as payments, but they were apparently unable to access two of his BTC wallets. They also found a database on his computer of thousands of his customers, which led to 4000 criminal proceedings being opened. Schmidt would eventually be summoned as a witness to hundreds of the ensuing trials.
Schmidt confessed and was sentenced to 7 years, but was released in 2019 after 2 years. While serving his sentence he was filmed for the Netflix documentary called “Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord”, which was released in 2021. At the end of the documentary, they revealed that Schmidt, now out of prison for 2 years, was under investigation relating to a drug bust that had happened in Leipzig. At the time the documentary was released, it was an ongoing situation.
The investigation revealed that Schmidt ran another online drug store called Candylove while he was still in prison for Shiny Flakes, and while he was being filmed for the Netflix documentary.
According to the prosecutor, he acted as the ringleader while 4 accomplices made around 500 shipments of drugs (though he claimed in his defense that he was simply the programmer for this second venture).
His trial for these new charges was held in spring of this year, and he was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in May.
He has been described by multiple people as someone who shows no signs of remorse.
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ShinyFlakes inu in the making.
trully BTC Maxi
the courts have to realize this guy isnt going to give up and going to make him serve a long sentence eventually right?
A question and some observations:
I predict we are going to see a big whale movement as soon as this guy gets out.
What he did was crazy, during the Documentary psychologists, police and all involved were sure he would do it again as he embraced the role of anti-hero and loved it
And as most people assumed he probably lost his seed to 15,000 BTC
I recommend everyone to watch documentary:
He reanacts everything
Fact he sold drugs from his childhood room is wild, once keeping 200kg on the street as he couldnt carry it all up the stairs
Seeing reactions from prison when he was brought in and inmates chanting when they heard on the news he was in their prison
Fact goverment payed him to travel and go to hundreds of trails of people buying from him, so he made some money inside
Before mentioned fact police never found 2/3 BTC wallets holding 15,000 BTC
The man, the myth, the legend
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2013? one of the btc early adopters
Wtf, this guy’s a menace, he build a drug empire at eighteen years of age
When will he learn?
He showed no remorse so maybe they need to increase the sentencing this time.
This man does not run from the grind
He should probably go away for a lot longer for doing it a second time.
lmao ZFG
He essentially is a Ross copycat. And obviously isn’t going to do anything else.
Might as well keep him in prison.
Although I gotta say that whole witch hunt against drugs is a waste of money and time.
Everyone has the freedom and choice to ruin his own health however he wants. Maybe they should legalize anything. It would pump the tax income of every state tremendously and black markets would get hit quite big.
Only if he had bribed politicians like SBF, things would have been easy for him.
Not long at all. The guys got bank in wallets unopened and will be free in this late 20s. Gg
Not the smartest one that, he has a target on his back for cops for the rest of his life. Any new criminal venture is a certain getting caught.
Why would you throw your life away when you’ve already made it
This kid is a real G! He is gonna get that money regardless of circumstances.
Drugs should be legal by now. The war on drugs has been an epic failure
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>This story has otherwise never been posted in this sub.
Press X for doubt, pretty sure I’ve seen it. Nevermind, it’s an interesting story!
The legal system is just forcing him to HODL.
When he gets out, he’s gonna be loaded and you bet he’s not gonna stop.
We’ll probably see another “Whale wallet moves 15,000 BTC” then
Not to idolise guys like this , you have it give it him to build something of that paramount !
If only he had the right direction and could have done something big
Absolute madlad.
Send him to a US based prison for his last week. If he lives, he’ll never deal again 🤣
I admire the balls on this guy
Running another drug operation while being in prison and being filmed for a documentary is crazy. Dude probably has more wallets hiding somewhere.
It’s quite amazing what he did. Not saying it’s right but amazing in the sense that if he used his knowhow in doing something legitimate he would most likely probably make it and be even richer and of course free!
Kid is a genius. The war on drugs is a farce.
Needs a looooong sentence
I thought the documentary made it pretty clear that this was inevitable.
Intersting story, doing this in the past used to be much simpler.
You know, colonel sanders had his recipe turned down more than 100 times. If you have a good idea, stick with it I guess 🤷♂️
The dude is a greedy idiot. He had millions in bitcoin and went to jail for it. Instead of just coming out of jail and enjoying his fortune, he did the same thing again and got caught, while even bragging about it during the movie
Lol damn that’s pretty brazen. I can’t imagine being in jail for something and deciding who cares I’m going to continue doing said thing that got me here, while I am here.
The work ethic on this man!
>He apparently made two mistakes that led to his capture: a mistaken address on one of the packages that led to the package being returned and ultimately opened by the postal service, and the fact that Schmidt also shipped all his parcels from the same post office which had CCTV coverage.
Noted lol
What a chad.
Entrepreneur right there.
This guy is the prototype of HODL.
Has millions but he keeps to HODL
If prescription companies can cause mass addiction issues. What’s wrong with this guy mailing drugs to you?
Old habits die hard.
Some effort running it from prison haha
Now that’s a genus that not government approved. But the guy would be a king or a king maker in a different universe. His keys are privately hidden but publicly missing.
This dude is crazy. Definitely no lessons have been learned
Crazy how he managed to do all this at just 18 yr old, and he managed to successfully run it all for a long while before he was caught