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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Dread Pirate Roberts on October 19, 2011, 01:47 am
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We are terribly sorry for the sudden outage today. We will be back up as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
UPDATE:
We are having to rebuild the site from a backup. All Bitcoins in user accounts and the escrow are accounted for and all site data has been saved except for roughly the last 30 minutes of activity preceding the outage. Any messages you sent or activity you engaged in during that window will have to be re-done except for deposits and withdrawals. Also, all of the pictures were not backed up, so sellers will need to re-upload them.
There was no security breach or anything to worry about that lead to this situation. We lease server space in different locations around the globe through unaware 3rd parties. We do this to hide the identities of those that run Silk Road in the event of a security breach in one of the servers. Unfortunately, this means we have to deal with some unreliable people who, without revealing too much detail, didn't keep their promises and lead to our servers being shutdown
It is taking so long to get back online because we have to re-download the Bitcoin block-chain through Tor. My hope is that we can get back up by 2 am EST. If we aren't back up by then, I'll recalibrate my estimate and post it here.
Also, the forum is down for completely unrelated reasons and we are working on that too.
Thanks again for your understanding.
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UPDATE: 2am EST has come and gone. I'm still running test to make sure everything is working as it should on the new forum. I forgot how complicated this site is! My new estimate is 4am EST.
...and we're back! I'll be checking messages for the next hour or so, so if anything is amiss with the restored site please message me asap. Thanks for hanging in there. We'll keep doing our best to make sure this kind of thing never happens again.
UPDATE: Looks like I spoke too soon. The site is down once more, most likely due to an overload of traffic from everyone getting back on the site and sellers uploading their pics all at once. I will update you here as soon as I know more.
UPDATE: I just opened the site back up. Here's a reprint of the announcement:
We have been experiencing technical difficulties over the past couple of days. This is nothing to be overly concerned about. We will be back to normal soon. We are opening the site back up again but this time with image uploading disabled. Hopefully our backup server can handle the traffic this time, but if it goes down again, we will stay down until we can get a more powerful server online. Click here for more details.
IMPORTANT: Please do not use past addresses for future deposits. Only use the bold address on your account page. We have not gotten to the bottom of it yet, but it is possible that we lost some of the old addresses during the switch to the backup server.
One other thing, we are not auto-finalizing orders or moderating past-due resolutions for at least a couple of days so everyone can catch up from not having access to the site.Thanks again for everyone's patience through all of this. We've received far more encouragement than complaints these past couple of days, so thank you for standing behind the site :)
UPDATE: Ok, looks like we're down again. I was pretty hopeful it would work that time, oh well. We've been working on a full capacity backup all along anyway, so we should have that up soon, possibly within 12 hours though I'll post something more concrete when I know. Hang in there gang, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Also, for everyone concerned about missing bitcoin deposits, do not worry. We will get it sorted out and your account will be credited one way or another. Sorry for the stress :)
UPDATE 1AM UTC: Nothing much else to add to the update. Just want to reassure everyone that we are doing everything in our power to get the site back up. We are pursuing two separate paths in parallel and whichever is finished first is when we'll be back up. Hard to say when that will be, I'll update as soon as I know more.
UPDATE 8AM UTC 10/21/2011: The light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger! We have a full capacity server online and are in the process of configuring it. Two other independent, full capacity servers are in the pipeline to serve as backups, so if we ever have an unexpected outage again we won't be scrambling to find a server that can handle the traffic. I am so incredibly sorry this happened. Thank you for hanging in there and being so understanding :)
UPDATE 1:00PM UTC 10/21/2011: We are sooooo close to going live again. And I am sooooo exhausted :) We're still doing the final tests and configurations, but I'm going to want to get a little sleep before we go live, so once we are ready to go, I am going to get a few hours of sleep, then wake up and launch so I will have the energy to oversee how it's going and respond to everyone's messages that I'm sure will come flooding in. See you soon :)
UPDATE 9:18PM UTC 10/21/2011: Got some rest. We are working out some bugs in the new setup, gotta be thorough. We should be able to go live sometime in the next 12 hours.
UPDATE 1:18AM UTC 10/22/2011: What an ordeal! The site just went live. The new server is more powerful and secure than the one we were on before the outage and is leased through a much more professional proxy, so I have high hopes that it will last us a long time. We've amped up our backup plans none the less and will have multiple independent full-capacity servers waiting in the wings at all times. I don't want to speak too soon, though. This is a new system and if something goes wrong, we may have to take the site down again, but like I said things are looking much better now. Again, I am honored by everyone's support and patience this week. I love you all :D
UPDATE 4:00AM UTC 10/22/2011: You may have noticed the site being down for a minute or two every 15 min or so over the past couple of hours. We figured out the problem was our system running into an arbitrary limit in the configuration. We increased the limit and should be running more smoothly now.
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Hey SR,
I just tryed to log in today and compete some orders but the whole website is down. Also, is this the true forum?
I think we really need this problem cleared up.
Yours faithfully,
EnterTheMatrix 8)
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Hey SR,
I just tryed to log in today and compete some orders but the whole website is down. Also, is this the true forum?
I think we really need this problem cleared up.
Yours faithfully,
EnterTheMatrix 8)
...What? Did you not read any of the post above yours?
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Being a network admin myself, I can appreciate the heat that the admins are under at the moment.
I do agree that we need to get this cleared up but...
I am willing to bet that they already know that it needs to get cleared up.
Give 'em some space...
Stop tapping your foot...
Go outside and play for a while...
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From what I've read anonymous or someone posing as him used dos attacks on several onion sites for whatever reason. Not sure if true or not.
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Why were the forums down? Have they been down since the 14th? It looks like there's barely been any activity since then.
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Supposedly Anonymous, or someone posing as him, brought down several .onion sites for whatever reason using dos attacks. Not sure if true or not.
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This is really fucked up i can't even access this site on my laptop I have to use my iPhone weird eh?
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Supposedly Anonymous, or someone posing as him, brought down several .onion sites for whatever reason using dos attacks. Not sure if true or not.
I hadn't heard about this, but I haven't seen anything to indicate that we were a target.
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Supposedly Anonymous, or someone posing as him, brought down several .onion sites for whatever reason using dos attacks. Not sure if true or not.
...they cracked down fucking-pedo-sites, hosted mainly on Freedom Hosting, so the cracked down FH as well !
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My password I always use on these forums isn't working. Sent a recovery e-mail TWICE, and got nothing. SOMETHINGS UP WITH THE FORUMS.
SR, I know your busy as FUCK, but this is really frustrating. How am I supposed to get my RapidImprovement SRF account back? I just became a senior :'( lol
-RI
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Wow, a busy day for you, SR!
:o
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Looks like the forum was rolled back to 10/14 as well. Confirm?
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hmmmm.... if the site rolled back to 10/14 is that possibly why my password isn't working? I've changed all my passwords within the last 3 days. :o
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Hmm, felt weird to see the site down. I hope it comes back soon. Thanks SR.
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Hey SR, thanks for taking the few minutes that I know your really dont have to spare to post whats going on for all of us. We all appreciate all your hard work and I know you'll have us back on track soon!
Thanks playa,
Paperchasing
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Important message to my clients -> Your orders will be delayed until I can access my orders page!! Please accept my sincere apologies but this is totally out of my control... Everyone's orders will be expedited as soon as I regain access to my orders on Silk Road! Thank you for your valuable consideration and understanding in this matter of mutual concern! The silver lining is that the ones that was on my last refresh of my orders page did go out today so some of you are quite lucky in that regard... :)
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Egads! first a almost 50% drop in value now this! is SOMEONE or something trying to out bitcoin?
All the poker sites were attacked too.
Any news on the return of this grand place?
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Well fuck me...I got me a new username and all...I'm not normally one of the paranoid ones...but there's all kind of angles that come to me mind...well SR, we all count on you being you...as long as I can hang with that, I"m cool being a newbie again...I guess when all calms down we can get our regular tough guy usernames back, in other words, old passwords will once again open the gates, I trust.
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I second that on the Bitcoin price drop! We need a anonymous currency that doesn't screw people over trying to do standard barter deals (Who here is trying to buy Bitcoins as an investment?). "If I take a dollar to the store to use to buy some bananas, I don't want my dollar to be worth 50 cents by the time I get to market" THAT'S BULLS**T!
WE NEED CHANGE and REMOVAL OF BANKSTERS GREEDY POLICIES!
1millionways
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Thanks for taking the time to post the info on the outage :)
Appreciate all the hard work
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Thanks for taking the time to post the info on the outage :)
Appreciate all the hard work
seconded.
you dicks need to chill.
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Oh my goodness gracious, I was so worried! I'm happy the site is back up and running!
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hope to see the site back soon. been going nuts not checking it non stop. also sorry to all the ppl who may have order form me today before site went down or last night. your orders going to be delay by a day
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hmmmm.... if the site rolled back to 10/14 is that possibly why my password isn't working? I've changed all my passwords within the last 3 days. :o
Just message me on the main site once it is up from your RapidImprovement account and I'll do a pass reset for you.
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Hey SR, thanks for taking the few minutes that I know your really dont have to spare to post whats going on for all of us. We all appreciate all your hard work and I know you'll have us back on track soon!
Thanks playa,
Paperchasing
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Important message to my clients -> Your orders will be delayed until I can access my orders page!! Please accept my sincere apologies but this is totally out of my control... Everyone's orders will be expedited as soon as I regain access to my orders on Silk Road! Thank you for your valuable consideration and understanding in this matter of mutual concern! The silver lining is that the ones that was on my last refresh of my orders page did go out today so some of you are quite lucky in that regard... :)
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man, I hope my order was one of those last ones lol
I'm confident we'll be up and running in no time.
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Hey SR,
Thank u for your updates & i really hope that we can get back in biz asap.
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Message to my clients:
Your order that come in from last weekend - Tuesday(this week) have being shipped.
So sit back,relax & wait for my letter to arrive there.
This situations is out of my control & i really hope that SR will be back in biz asap.
Just send me PM in the forum if you have any questions / concern about your order. :)
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It's not that the forum was rolled back - over the last few days the other forum, version 2.0, was active, now 2.0.1 is active. Since 2.0.1 wasn't active for the last few days no posts have been placed on it. All posts from the last few days are on the other forum. RI, if you changed your password in the last few days you only changed it on the other forum not on this one. If anyone created a user on the forums before the databases diverged your user will be on both. If you created it afterwards it will only be on one or the other. Same goes for posts. This is what all the evidence shows.
Why are there are two forums that alternate? 42.
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ITS UP BITCHES!!!!
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Thank you SR for letting us know the details about the downtime! I was in the middle of getting an order resolved and it was frustrating to find that it is now going to take even longer. I appreciate all the hard work and the risks that admins are taking running this site. I'll be sure to send over a bitcoin or 2 once it's back up and running
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ITS UP BITCHES!!!!
Yes it is!! Too bad for the loss of the pictures tho...
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hmmmm.... if the site rolled back to 10/14 is that possibly why my password isn't working? I've changed all my passwords within the last 3 days. :o
Just message me on the main site once it is up from your RapidImprovement account and I'll do a pass reset for you.
Message sent! Thanks!
BTW I have around 200 BTC that have been transferring to 2 separate accounts and it's been about 3 1/2 hours with no sign of my coins. When should I start to panic? Thanks!
-RI
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I had on my account 17,6 BTC and now my account is empty ;/ WTF? I see on account that my money was withdrawal but i never sent my BTC :(. Do u know whats goin on ?
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I still haven't been able to log on to SR once since it was "back up". Anyone else still getting 504 errors?
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I still haven't been able to log on to SR once since it was "back up". Anyone else still getting 504 errors?
yes, still down with 504
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I had on my account 17,6 BTC and now my account is empty ;/ WTF? I see on account that my money was withdrawal but i never sent my BTC :(. Do u know whats goin on ?
I'm missing 42 bitcoins, myself. Hoping that this is just a result of the outage, but it looks like somebody withdrew them. Anyone else have this problem too?
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Everything seems to be fine in my account. Thanks SR.
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Well,
I lost an order that I placed and now this exchange drop has killed me. I don't have enough bitcoins anymore.
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I had on my account 17,6 BTC and now my account is empty ;/ WTF? I see on account that my money was withdrawal but i never sent my BTC :(. Do u know whats goin on ?
I'm missing 42 bitcoins, myself. Hoping that this is just a result of the outage, but it looks like somebody withdrew them. Anyone else have this problem too?
traversis.
i know what happened to your bitcoin, because you have logged into my phishing site about 15 times over the last few days. too bad when I logged into your account, your BTC was already gone, so you have probably logged in to every phishing site ever listed on hidden wiki. I gotta say, with that amount of ignorance, you deserve to lose your money!
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Good to know we have such an honest community!lol
Shit mine still aint working i keep getting error! is there a reason some are getting in and others arent?
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Just a note on passwords and state:
I had just noticed that right before the crash, I was getting strange TOR behavior and etc. So, being paranoid, I updated all my passwords like, 15 minutes before SR and Forums became unavailable. However, although some forum posts are missing )my replies), my new password is working. FWIW,
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I am still unable to log in. No 504 error just a standard 'the connection has timed out' message that I see often when the site and/or tor is having issues. I have restarted tor and the pc several times and still no luck. Everyone else able to get in now?
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I second that on the Bitcoin price drop! We need a anonymous currency that doesn't screw people over trying to do standard barter deals (Who here is trying to buy Bitcoins as an investment?). "If I take a dollar to the store to use to buy some bananas, I don't want my dollar to be worth 50 cents by the time I get to market" THAT'S BULLS**T!
WE NEED CHANGE and REMOVAL OF BANKSTERS GREEDY POLICIES!
1millionways
It's sad Liberty Reserve isn't an option here (apart from Bitcoin), as from what I know it's anonymous and stable, and little charge fee.
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Could the admins give us an update with whats going on plz?
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seems to be down again
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I had on my account 17,6 BTC and now my account is empty ;/ WTF? I see on account that my money was withdrawal but i never sent my BTC :(. Do u know whats goin on ?
I'm missing 42 bitcoins, myself. Hoping that this is just a result of the outage, but it looks like somebody withdrew them. Anyone else have this problem too?
What was the onion address you went to? Was you phished? Did you had a backup BTC account to send to? Did you check your backup BTC account?
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...looks like it's offline again..... :(
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...looks like it's offline again..... :(
Yep, same for me.... Time for bed and will try again in the morning.
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...looks like it's offline again..... :(
It's offline since a day. You thought it was online as your browser was viewing cached page.
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Never posted here b4 but love the site and feel slightly empty with it being down....huge thanks to the admin with your continued efforts to restore SR
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...looks like it's offline again..... :(
It's offline since a day. You thought it was online as your browser was viewing cached page.
No it was online, I was able to update my prices on my items and what not. Probably had an overload as everyone logged in and was updating their pictures(This is what I was doing when it went down)
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Hello admin!
Could you please fix the site asap? This is the second day in a row I cant acces SR when Im at my office surrounded by stamps and label printers and have no fucking clue what adresses to print because I cant access your site.
To all my customers who didnt have their package marked as shipped yet expect a 2 day delay because of this.
-Mitanox
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First post in this thread updated
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Hmmm, really hope for more bandwidth. Thanks SR anyway trying to sort it out.
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Hey SR,
just wanna say I appreciate the service you're providing, and as someone who works in IT - take your time and do it right, personally I can wait for my drugs as long as I know the site is secure.
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Hopefully, as members, we try not to spread misinformation, panic, paranoia and rumor. A year from now we'll be laughing about this, when btc go back up and stabilize, and western governments finally thro in the towel on drug prohibition, the same way they finally did on alcohol prohibition. "Remember the october panic last year?!" we'll be saying....maybe...
I suggest to others that they do what I did yesterday, which is create a new account, maybe with a new username, so if there are continued password problems, they can still log in. I"m also going to take SR at their word, on the site being worked on, rather than giving in to the paranoid rats that sometimes infest my brain, and keep shouting 'interpol' 'dea' 'mafia' hahahaha...this'll pass too.
I got into my account yesterday on main forums, and it was about the same: H shippers still hadn't shipped, but had great msgs explaining why, so that's always fun, good for an idle moment or two, but nothing different except btc had dropped some more....
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Hey SR,
just wanna say I appreciate the service you're providing, and as someone who works in IT - take your time and do it right, personally I can wait for my drugs as long as I know the site is secure.
Same here... nothing worse than an unexpected server crash... except for the impatient end users hounding you, asking "is it up yet?" like you're just sitting there having ice cream and watching TV. It'll be up when it's up and if it goes down then, then it'll be up when it's up.
Good luck!
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^ Word! People take webservers etc for granted until they go down. No one appreciates the server admins that make the world go round. Many times people only see an admin's work when there is a problem. I know how it is SR and while I hope it is up sooner rather than later, I know that these things take time to be sorted out correctly. As my father always told me, 'do it right, do it once...' Keep up the good work!
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Hey SR,
just wanna say I appreciate the service you're providing, and as someone who works in IT - take your time and do it right, personally I can wait for my drugs as long as I know the site is secure.
Totally agree. As a member of the IT community myself, I understand the position they're in. Constantly having bitchy users asking "what kind of time frame are we looking at?" "Why is this happening?". Take your time guys, do it right. I'm more concerned with security than speed, so get it done right.
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WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN TO MY TRANSFERRING 200 BTC????
dear god tell me im not fucked.
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Not to be completely paranoid or anything... but what is the best measure when / if silk road goes back up to ensure
it is silk road and not some LE takeover of silk road to data capture?
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Not to be completely paranoid or anything... but what is the best measure when / if silk road goes back up to ensure
it is silk road and not some LE takeover of silk road to data capture?
you can never know, just like IRL. but like IRL, you can make sure who you talk to is who he say he is using GPG. regardless you should encrypt everything . addresses should always be encrypted. i don't think it's possible LE would take over SR and let it keep operating
the biggest concern should be BTC and traceability imho
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Not to be completely paranoid or anything... but what is the best measure when / if silk road goes back up to ensure
it is silk road and not some LE takeover of silk road to data capture?
you can never know, just like IRL. but like IRL, you can make sure who you talk to is who he say he is using GPG. regardless you should encrypt everything . addresses should always be encrypted. i don't think it's possible LE would take over SR and let it keep operating
the biggest concern should be BTC and traceability imho
If LE took over silk road and kept it operating would that be considered entrapment (on certain items obviously not on books and testing kits)
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WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN TO MY TRANSFERRING 200 BTC????
dear god tell me im not fucked.
You're ok, you'll be taken care of as soon as we can. Sorry for the stress :)
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I want heads!
:D
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Not to be completely paranoid or anything... but what is the best measure when / if silk road goes back up to ensure
it is silk road and not some LE takeover of silk road to data capture?
you can never know, just like IRL. but like IRL, you can make sure who you talk to is who he say he is using GPG. regardless you should encrypt everything . addresses should always be encrypted. i don't think it's possible LE would take over SR and let it keep operating
the biggest concern should be BTC and traceability imho
agreed, gpg where necessary. also to run the sr server they would need access to the private key for the hidden service from which the tor address is hashed.
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SR while you are here, hows everything going in general? how do you feel your experiment is going?
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LE, if you're reading this, FO....
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you can never know, just like IRL. but like IRL, you can make sure who you talk to is who he say he is using GPG. regardless you should encrypt everything . addresses should always be encrypted. i don't think it's possible LE would take over SR and let it keep operating
the biggest concern should be BTC and traceability imho
agreed, gpg where necessary. also to run the sr server they would need access to the private key for the hidden service from which the tor address is hashed.
forgive the tech ignorance, and i am not trying to spread FUD. but lets logic through. is it possible for some one to create a new hidden service and hijack the old address to use for phishing (if so i doubt le is really that sophisticated). Is the .onion address the hash of a privkey that is needed to publish? so w/o that privkey it would be impossible (infeasible) to some how hijack. tor runs on what sha1?
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forgive the tech ignorance, and i am not trying to spread FUD. but lets logic through. is it possible for some one to create a new hidden service and hijack the old address to use for phishing (if so i doubt le is really that sophisticated). Is the .onion address the hash of a privkey that is needed to publish? so w/o that privkey it would be impossible (infeasible) to some how hijack. tor runs on what sha1?
Yes, something like this, it's impossible to use SR address without private key required for hidden service.
For get into details you can read about hidden services on Tor site or google it
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SR Admins:
I don't know what Web server is run on SR, but if it's not nginx I recommend you to pay attention to it, cause it's very high-performance web server designed for high load.
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Silk road,
Many thanks for all the effort!!!
Feel free to take sum BTC from my account to get yourself a nice glass of Heineken Beer :D
CHEERS MATE! ;D
your doing a great job, All the free minded people are very happy with U....
To bad the Nobel prices are already given away...
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I don't normally advocate communications outside of SR, but since SR has been down for a couple of days and has not been able to stably return to operation on its published timetable, please feel free to contact me at:
tetravort@hushmail.com or tetravort@safe-mail.net
I don't really trust either of those email services, so use GPG if you are able.
I will, of course, return to normal SR-based operations when SR returns to normal SR operations. I know you're having a shitty time, SR, and you'll hear lots of complaining, but rest assured your work is greatly appreciated. I understand that it makes sense to prioritize your privacy and security (and therefore SR's longevity) over uptime.
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I totally get the tech problems and all but it does worry me in a sense that i was/am planning to make a decent size deposit into my SR and with the way the currency is flutuating and the site be down it is a bit worrying ya know?
But aside from that keep up the good work.
I second the nobel prize post!!
Truly is a groundbreaking site :)
But get the site up i need to purchase some Drugs ;)lol
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forgive the tech ignorance, and i am not trying to spread FUD. but lets logic through. is it possible for some one to create a new hidden service and hijack the old address to use for phishing (if so i doubt le is really that sophisticated). Is the .onion address the hash of a privkey that is needed to publish? so w/o that privkey it would be impossible (infeasible) to some how hijack. tor runs on what sha1?
The two best ways to be sure that the site hasn't been secretly taken over by law enforcement or some hacker is the .onion urls, and the official Silk Road public key. The .onion urls correspond to private keys that must be present on the server running Silk Road in order for it to be validated. Without these keys, no one can impersonate dkn255hz262ypmii.onion or ianxz6zefk72ulzz.onion. But, if the servers were compromised, someone could take these keys and impersonate the sites.
That's why I always GPG sign my important messages, so you know it is me. My personal private key could also be stolen if I were ever physically compromised or my personal computer were hacked, but it is another layer of validation.
Will there be some measurements taken for this not to happen anymore in the future? Or at least not that often?
Since i am a member the website is laggy as hell!
Besides trying to find ever more reliable proxies, we are also going to have at least one full capacity backup server idling at all times from now on.
SR while you are here, hows everything going in general? how do you feel your experiment is going?
Couldn't be happier :D This is the most fun I've had in my adult life! We'll get through this speed-bump and be better for it.
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I was able to log on late last night and everything with my account looked perfect! I feared that the site would go down again due to sheer volume of traffic, which is probably what is happening now. Great job SR and nice to see some PGP signed communication about the state of the forums and the site.
Keep up the good work SR and lets all keep our fingers crossed for a good outcome.
P.S.
Not to spread FUD or be distrustful, but I never had and occasion to import SR's official public key, so I can't check his sig. I'm sure I was not the first to think of this and I'm sure multiple people have confirmed that the signed messages are coming from the man himself. If this is not the way it works than please forgive my ignorance.
Thanks and I wish I could say I'm praying for you SR, but I am an atheist and that would be hypocritical. Anyhow, best of luck, no matter how this turns out.
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WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN TO MY TRANSFERRING 200 BTC????
dear god tell me im not fucked.
You're ok, you'll be taken care of as soon as we can. Sorry for the stress :)
Thanks god! Thank you!!
:D
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Be cool, be cool
Break out the reserve stash and eat some benzos and opiates if ya got em.
We saw the action taken after the first site outage - SR sticks to his word and the site was up at 2am.
Faith in the Road prevails, everyone chill.
One
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I had on my account 17,6 BTC and now my account is empty ;/ WTF? I see on account that my money was withdrawal but i never sent my BTC :(. Do u know whats goin on ?
I'm missing 42 bitcoins, myself. Hoping that this is just a result of the outage, but it looks like somebody withdrew them. Anyone else have this problem too?
traversis.
i know what happened to your bitcoin, because you have logged into my phishing site about 15 times over the last few days. too bad when I logged into your account, your BTC was already gone, so you have probably logged in to every phishing site ever listed on hidden wiki. I gotta say, with that amount of ignorance, you deserve to lose your money!
yeah, you guys - make sure ** especially when logging in ** that you're at http://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.onion when you visit SR (this is also true for URLs for non-onion sites on the normal 'net). personally, I always log in from my bookmarked SR URL since onion URLs are kinda hard to remember :oP If that's not the URL when you log in, you're being phished and handing your login info to a (malicious) stranger.
EDIT: also, if you're already logged in and you follow (or copy-paste) some link and you get another login screen be especially wary. happens _all_ the time on Facebook, for example.
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hey everyone,
i think we all need to give SR some credit and some time to rebuild as i dont think half of you realize how hard it is to rebuild a site like SR from a back up, and the fact
he has managed to keep a back up for up to half before the crash is incredable and all we have to do is give him some time and reload our photos
SR i have total faith in you take your time as i know the work load you must have, and thank god escrow and bitcoins were on the back up or that would have been a
nightmare,
im just sorry who ever let you down on the server side of things didnt keep there word, im sure if we all pull together as a community this can be solved and prevented
from happening in the future, some one out there must have free space on a reliable sever to rent to SR.
Once again thanks for you deadication to SR and we are willing to wait just take your time as i know from experiance how hard building a normal sight is let alone a
.onion site
Thanks SR for all your hard work :)
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I am pretty sure it will be up and running soon. But I have a feeling it is dragging down the Bitcoin even further at the moment. Going full margin long on Bitcoinica as we speak! ;)
Anyone worried about Holland weed orders:
amsterdam@tormail.net
(There will be a delay with yesterdays orders.. one day so far.)
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i should post more often.. looks like its back..
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@ Silk Road: I know the difficulties of rebuilding a system with people breathing down your neck. No fun. Thanks for keeping us all informed and good luck. ...make sure to get some sleep in there somewhere.
-m03r0n
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Take you time ;) because safety and stability first...no matter what..i can wait...and also other people.
So plz dont feel pressure from us... 8)...take a join and chill.
Greets DutchShop,
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its back up :)
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Always when I signup somewhere or deposit money a total meltdown happens... I signed up as seller on Silkroad. But what worries more is the bitcointrade, with selling 20 cents you can manipulate it´s course with 20 points. Can I accept other form of payment, with bitcoin we are losing money. I could for instance take paysafecard as payment, but it´s hard to escrow it. I can be wrong, -that almost never happens- bitcoin will have 0,00 value within a few days,
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hey everyone,
i think we all need to give SR some credit and some time to rebuild as i dont think half of you realize how hard it is to rebuild a site like SR from a back up
Ditto, thumbs up!
As long as you have the GPG of your contacts from SR you could keep in touch.
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a reassuring palm on the shoulder is always appreciated from the Admin.
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Well done...as the admin of a forum which had some troubles a few years back, I know how it feels to have the pressure from the sizable community....plus your site is a cool and dangerous drugs marketplace....as well as a forum which went down...good effort and viva la revolution.
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Along with everyone else good shit! This site is awesome and the support is too.
Now if I could just get my bean order sooner! Too anxious
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ITS BEEN 12 HOURS, IVE STILL NOT RECEIVED ANY OF MY BTC. PLEASE TELL ME IM NOT SCREWED!!!!!!!!!!
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I sent 99 coins from mt gox over to silk road over 24 hours ago. Still not showing up in my account.
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Thanks to the Admin for all his hard work. It was hellish 16 hours but its over. I hope the guys above me end up resolving their bitcoin issues.
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Hey, i sent 100 bitcoins to my account and they are now showing up either, its also been about 12 hours since i transferred them from my mt gox account also
in my bitcoin my account i see it there and it says it has 48 confirmations
please tell me i am going to get them :( ?
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From the SRM announcement:
IMPORTANT: Please do not use past addresses for future deposits. Only use the bold address on your account page. We have not gotten to the bottom of it yet, but it is possible that we lost some of the old addresses during the switch to the backup server.
Please tell me the wallet.dat from the previous bitcoind server has not been lost. If it has there will be a few upset people with lost transactions.
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From the SRM announcement:
IMPORTANT: Please do not use past addresses for future deposits. Only use the bold address on your account page. We have not gotten to the bottom of it yet, but it is possible that we lost some of the old addresses during the switch to the backup server.
Please tell me the wallet.dat from the previous bitcoind server has not been lost. If it has there will be a few upset people with lost transactions.
I lost 118.7 bitcoins because of this. What am I supposed to do now?
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I'm missing 155.91603 BTC as well. Lord :( I hope this gets worked out.. either way I'm glad the site is back up.
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also just to add to my post above, the bitcoin address on my silkroad account is what i sent my coins to anyway and it has not changed, i really hope i get my coins its a lot of real money :(
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I think some of us here are making false claims ::) lol
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Status: 62 confirmations, broadcast through 48 nodes
Date: 10/19/2011 15:05
Debit: -100.00
Transaction fee: -0.01
Net amount: -100.01
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upload a screen print n send it to SR and ask them what are they gunna do
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If im not mistaken much like mybitcoin when it goes down if a transaction takes place during the outages I know mbc has no way of actually "seeing" that transfer from say from a pool to mbc i would presume it would be the same for mtgox to SR I wouldn't worrie to much about it thou those guys that are missing there btc hey I COMPLETELY understand how frustrating this is right now I get that but relax guys as much of a inconvenience it is your a unfortunate victim of circumstance and at this time I assume silkroads priority is to resume normal operations first as many of you don't know what it takes to actually maintain a site like this it is incredible it is back up this quickly and of course when dealing with peoples money frustrating as fuck because I'm sure his inbox is fucking maxed right now
there is a reason why i never keep a balance of more then 50btc on SR and it is because of things like this im sure each case will be evaluated and dealt with but it will take a shit ton of time just to get things settled down :)
On a side note SR admin I have a bunch of space on a unmetered fractional OC3 connection located at terra-byte being that my mate is staff security is not a issue I could possibly offer you a jail if you need if so message me on SR itself
http://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.onion/index.php/silkroad/user/13555
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I'm trying to create a newer account on SR and it's not allowing me. It's just a redirect to the login page.
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I think some of us here are making false claims ::) lol
I hope you weren't referring to me because it is my first post. Fuck you. I've been an active member of the site since day one and I have all the documentation to prove that the funds were indeed sent to my silk road address and they aren't there because of the site going down.
No one cares about your rude opinion.
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The site stil isnt working here.. But the first post states it should be working now.. other people experiencing the same problem?
Same here. Haven't been able to get on for the past hour. Before that it was ok.
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Same here...
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ditto
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Yes, was back up for a while then went down again around an hour or so ago. My guess it that SR took it down to investigate the missing transfers and have the site's bitcoind or whatever rescan the block chain, so be prepared for it to be down again for at least a few more hours. Just my guess though. Might just be overloaded from everybody trying to log in at once.
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Same here and Ive still got 3 orders backlog which I want to ship today...
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Damn I keep trying to log in at the wrong times. Only managed to get in once in the last three days
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I sent 99 coins from mt gox over to silk road over 24 hours ago. Still not showing up in my account.
YOU"RE NOT SCREWED..........................................................Happy. Relax will ya, I've got 438 coins in my account.
Here, look at this instead.
Bikerbum
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Just thought I'd add to the list of situations:
Yesterday, I was able to get onto S.R. fine, but I waited about 2 1/2 hrs for my btc to show up in the acct and they never did.
I wasn't worried, I just went to bed and decided to try again this morning.
Now its this morning and I'm getting about five hundred and four socks that I would rather be about, but dats okay.
No complaints here, just reporting.
Overall, I have about 100 btc trying to find their way over to the S.R.
bah, wutever, out of my hands. que sera sera, eh?
~smod
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I think some of us here are making false claims ::) lol
+10 on that. I just transfered 1,735,952.62901 bitcoins , 16 Bars of Gold, My entire silver coin collection
and a partridge in a pear tree to my SR account and it hasn't shown up yet. What's up with that. Dumb illegal drug site. I should have given it to the guy on the corner to hold for me. It's still not in my account yet...LMFAO
Bikerbum
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Same 504 error here, no different from 1st day of downtime.
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Silk, this is killllllllling meeeeeeeeeee ;-(
but still keep up the good work ;-)
I suppose it ain't easy being a revolutionary
Fly
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So... Any updates?
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Oh this is crazy. I made a bunch of posts on October 07 and a day later they disappeared, along with the posts of other people on the SR Forum. Today, they're back -- and the post I made a few days ago is gone. One of the SR moderators mentioned that he'd heard 4chan was fucking with the SR database. The server admins for the SR Forums must be tearing their hair out trying to figure out how to fix this.
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I think some of us here are making false claims ::) lol
I hope you weren't referring to me because it is my first post. Fuck you. I've been an active member of the site since day one and I have all the documentation to prove that the funds were indeed sent to my silk road address and they aren't there because of the site going down.
No one cares about your rude opinion.
chill your boots moron ha "documentation" any 1 can make it up dont you know what photoshop is fool? your a joke!
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he'd heard 4chan was fucking with the SR database
wtf
are they just morons & thugs? vandals?
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Sr still down?
I know that update states that it is up but...
All I get is "Problem loading page"
Thx...
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Maybe they are changing webhost ...
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i find it truly amazing that after the MtGox hack and the Mybitcoin hacks that people keep large quantities of coin on SR. Is it so hard to only keep what is absolutely necessary held in your own personal local wallet? Buyers should only put coins on SR when they are just about to buy something and vendors should take their coins out as soon as possible after they release from escrow. SR has been very stable for a long run and I can understand people becoming comfortable thinking that nothing will ever go wrong, but that is just not how things work.
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The site seems to be down again. I'm guessing that isn't news to anyone coming here and reading this thread but I thought someone ought to note it anyway.
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I shipped 7 orders on Tuesday but didn't get the chance to click Confirm shipment, does that mean my orders are gone?
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I shipped 7 orders on Tuesday but didn't get the chance to click Confirm shipment, does that mean my orders are gone?
From the sounds of it you should be ok. Sounds like those who were transferring coins from/to SR at the time of the crash have the problems.
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Silk Road,
Can we get a confirmation that SR is still alive? At least behind the scenes...
Not that I am worried about the 1000s I have stuck in escrow, :o
Keep up the good work,
Holland
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first post updated
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i find it truly amazing that after the MtGox hack and the Mybitcoin hacks that people keep large quantities of coin on SR. Is it so hard to only keep what is absolutely necessary held in your own personal local wallet? Buyers should only put coins on SR when they are just about to buy something and vendors should take their coins out as soon as possible after they release from escrow. SR has been very stable for a long run and I can understand people becoming comfortable thinking that nothing will ever go wrong, but that is just not how things work.
That's exactly what I do. I'm about to place an order, therefore the funds will be transferred to my BTC account only before that. The funds won't last a minute there.
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Looks like it's finally back up for now anyways. But with images disabled for now.
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Not really :(
About the btc i would add that the best way to keep his btc safe is to keep the wallet in his own computer with all the bitcoins. And make a save each time on sd card or usb key ...
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Looks like it's finally back up for now anyways. But with images disabled for now.
not up for me :S
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UPDATE: Ok, looks like we're down again. I was pretty hopeful it would work that time, oh well. We've been working on a full capacity backup all along anyway, so we should have that up soon, possibly within 12 hours though I'll post something more concrete when I know. Hang in there gang, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Also, for everyone concerned about missing bitcoin deposits, do not worry. We will get it sorted out and your account will be credited one way or another. Sorry for the stress :)
I know it probably wasn't the best idea to transfer the bitcoins to the SR right after it came back up the first time, I admit that. So, thank you for being such a wonderful person/group by giving me this guarantee. You've loved a bunch of strangers that expect too much out of you and you deserve appreciation for that.
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It's there anybody who can tell for sure when the SR will be ON again ?
Thank's
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It's there anybody who can tell for sure when the SR will be ON again ?
Thank's
how longs a piece of string lol
i knew it would happen sooner or later whether it is LE or Anti-Drug Extremists i dont know
i know it's frustrating but like all good things in life they have to come to an end one day
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Heads will roll!!!
:D
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It's there anybody who can tell for sure when the SR will be ON again ?
Thank's
how longs a piece of string lol
i knew it would happen sooner or later whether it is LE or Anti-Drug Extremists i dont know
i know it's frustrating but like all good things in life they have to come to an end one day
I don't think hopelessness is necessary, at least not yet. Have some patience. Whoever those amazing souls who run this place might be, they seem confident they'll get this fixed. Just give them some time before predicting an inevitable death of the Silk Road.
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Just a ignorant 2cents from the bleachers:
I know that running a secure, multi-homed site with a tolerance for high latency (TOR) can be a challenge. FWIW, we traced a lot of application / database instabilities to ....tadum....MySQL. Taking the effort to change over to Postgres really, really made a difference.
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It's there anybody who can tell for sure when the SR will be ON again ?
Thank's
how longs a piece of string lol
i knew it would happen sooner or later whether it is LE or Anti-Drug Extremists i dont know
i know it's frustrating but like all good things in life they have to come to an end one day
I don't think hopelessness is necessary, at least not yet. Have some patience. Whoever those amazing souls who run this place might be, they seem confident they'll get this fixed. Just give them some time before predicting an inevitable death of the Silk Road.
always prepare yourself for the worst thats what i always say
on a different note GOOD RIDDANCE TO GADDAFI!
;D
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Today i only see "We are terribly sorry for the outages over the past couple of days. Please see our post about it on the forums." or the site just dont loads. Any updates?
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Today i only see "We are terribly sorry for the outages over the past couple of days. Please see our post about it on the forums." or the site just dont loads. Any updates?
The update is at the bottom of the OP.
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Hey SR staff! Same mrnye that's been around here for the past few weeks, just had to register new account to post cuz mine won't let me in. Keep up the good work. I have faith you'll get this all sorted out. As to this being coincidence or and attack I found this posted on Pastebin:
This is concerning the official SR message:
"So the server went down unexpectedly today. This was very unnerving because we thought it had somehow been seized or something terrible like that. Fortunately it was just some kind of glitch and we were able to reboot. Everything has been backed up and is totally current, but we are not going to turn the site back on for a couple of days while we work out a way to prevent such problems. We are terribly sorry for this inconvenience, but we want to provide the best service possible, and random outages just aren't going to cut it. We know it must be terribly frustrating, but we are taking the better-safe-than-sorry approach and we hope you understand."
We Anonymous, were testing our new WebLOIC on several sites including The Silk Road and The Underground Wiki. This is not the hoax #refref.
We apologize for the inconvenience of it may have caused to SR users. Take this as a warning to those who host CP on darknets. We will take you down. We have the means.
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not Forgive
We do not Forget
Expect Us
Who knows if its for real. If it is then at least we can agree that SR was downed for a good cause, right? Fuck pedos. I hope this hasn't already been brought up but I can't really read all 10 pages of this thread b/c some pages won't load. I kinda want to believe the above quote, at least that would suggest that LE still can't figure out how to stop us, and the only people that could are to anarchist to care about people dealing drugs, but not so anarchist to not care about people diddling little kids.
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Hey SR staff! Same mrnye that's been around here for the past few weeks, just had to register new account to post cuz mine won't let me in. Keep up the good work. I have faith you'll get this all sorted out. As to this being coincidence or and attack I found this posted on Pastebin:
This is concerning the official SR message:
"So the server went down unexpectedly today. This was very unnerving because we thought it had somehow been seized or something terrible like that. Fortunately it was just some kind of glitch and we were able to reboot. Everything has been backed up and is totally current, but we are not going to turn the site back on for a couple of days while we work out a way to prevent such problems. We are terribly sorry for this inconvenience, but we want to provide the best service possible, and random outages just aren't going to cut it. We know it must be terribly frustrating, but we are taking the better-safe-than-sorry approach and we hope you understand."
We Anonymous, were testing our new WebLOIC on several sites including The Silk Road and The Underground Wiki. This is not the hoax #refref.
We apologize for the inconvenience of it may have caused to SR users. Take this as a warning to those who host CP on darknets. We will take you down. We have the means.
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not Forgive
We do not Forget
Expect Us
Who knows if its for real. If it is then at least we can agree that SR was downed for a good cause, right? Fuck pedos. I hope this hasn't already been brought up but I can't really read all 10 pages of this thread b/c some pages won't load. I kinda want to believe the above quote, at least that would suggest that LE still can't figure out how to stop us, and the only people that could are to anarchist to care about people dealing drugs, but not so anarchist to not care about people diddling little kids.
I don't know if it's real or not. I'm not entirely sure how one would go about DDoSing .onion sites, or if it's even possible. If it is, wouldn't it take a lot of people and it would be incredibly slow? Whether it's true or not, I'm sure whatever this is will get fixed. If it is true, at least they're moving on to targets more worthy of their time. Nobody will miss a few pedos.
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Ok everyone, SR is gonna get the site back up... every major website has went thru their share of growing pains and SR is no exception.
In the mean time I'm going to get the orders out that I can. I have some orders but not all of them so I'd like to thank everyone in advance for their understanding and consideration with regards to their orders being processed late!
Thank you for your continued patience in this matter,
Paperchasing
@mrnye666 & herpiusderpius - we previously debunked the claims of Anonymous attacking SR in the self-alleged attackers posts on the forum previously.
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Hey SR staff! Same mrnye that's been around here for the past few weeks, just had to register new account to post cuz mine won't let me in. Keep up the good work. I have faith you'll get this all sorted out. As to this being coincidence or and attack I found this posted on Pastebin:
This is concerning the official SR message:
"So the server went down unexpectedly today. This was very unnerving because we thought it had somehow been seized or something terrible like that. Fortunately it was just some kind of glitch and we were able to reboot. Everything has been backed up and is totally current, but we are not going to turn the site back on for a couple of days while we work out a way to prevent such problems. We are terribly sorry for this inconvenience, but we want to provide the best service possible, and random outages just aren't going to cut it. We know it must be terribly frustrating, but we are taking the better-safe-than-sorry approach and we hope you understand."
We Anonymous, were testing our new WebLOIC on several sites including The Silk Road and The Underground Wiki. This is not the hoax #refref.
We apologize for the inconvenience of it may have caused to SR users. Take this as a warning to those who host CP on darknets. We will take you down. We have the means.
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not Forgive
We do not Forget
Expect Us
Who knows if its for real. If it is then at least we can agree that SR was downed for a good cause, right? Fuck pedos. I hope this hasn't already been brought up but I can't really read all 10 pages of this thread b/c some pages won't load. I kinda want to believe the above quote, at least that would suggest that LE still can't figure out how to stop us, and the only people that could are to anarchist to care about people dealing drugs, but not so anarchist to not care about people diddling little kids.
Highly doubtful, most likely some wannabe hacker who knows fuck all, the majority of the self proclaimed Anonymous are.
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Listen Up, I f you don't know who I am ...you should.
Look the SRM got flooded last night because every member if silk road hopped on asap....this in returned caused a traffic jam and a blow out Site.
Next time it comes back on only pertain to orders and gtfo the server or it will crash again.
No reason to shop when the server won't hold all you members at once.
Over the rest of the week the members on at any given time should equal back out to a running running site.
"Damn Eager Beaver 2.0"
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Ok everyone, SR is gonna get the site back up... every major website has went thru their share of growing pains and SR is no exception.
In the mean time I'm going to get the orders out that I can. I have some orders but not all of them so I'd like to thank everyone in advance for their understanding and consideration with regards to their orders being processed late!
Thank you for your continued patience in this matter,
Paperchasing
@mrnye666 & herpiusderpius - we previously debunked the claims of Anonymous attacking SR in the self-alleged attackers posts on the forum previously.
How were they debunked? I'm sorry but some pages for me just will not load on the forums. And I have no doubt that SR will be fixed, and patiently await that answered prayer, I just wouldn't rule out Anonymous, even if it seems like it wasn't them, it still might have been, they do this kind of thing constantly and I think Tor would be a small hurdle for them to jump over. Just my opinion. And like I said, I just would like to believe its true, if that's okay with you? Even if it isn't, it just makes me feel better about not having access to my new favorite place on the interwebs believing that it is an effort to stop those out there glorifying the destruction of innocence.
Regardless of who/what caused the crash I know that the powers that oversee this place will get it back in working order soon enough. They are all geniuses that deserve nobel peace prizes.
Listen Up, I f you don't know who I am ...you should.
Look the SRM got flooded last night because every member if silk road hopped on asap....this in returned caused a traffic jam and a blow out Site.
Next time it comes back on only pertain to orders and gtfo the server or it will crash again.
No reason to shop when the server won't hold all you members at once.
Over the rest of the week the members on at any given time should equal back out to a running running site.
"Damn Eager Beaver 2.0"
yeah I think I caught the second crash first hand. I just randomly decided to try and load SR and got the login screen, no captcha and then when I refreshed connection timed out ::)
I still wouldn't rule out hackers though, there really is an "Anonymous" despite the fact that there are a million wanna-be's that claim to be him/her/it. Besides, like I said, wouldn't it be nice if we were all going through this stress and the result is the crashing of a bunch of CP servers?
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^^wishful thinking i suppose
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I shipped 7 orders on Tuesday but didn't get the chance to click Confirm shipment, does that mean my orders are gone?
From the sounds of it you should be ok. Sounds like those who were transferring coins from/to SR at the time of the crash have the problems.
For all sellers, that is a HUGE relieve. Thinking the 4 days would already be over if that was true. Keep up the good work SR. We all happy.
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Listen Up, I f you don't know who I am ...you should.
Why should we know who you are? Are you someone of significant importance to us?
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Hi,
Im pretty new around here and am a new seller and you take a % (6.XX) and im certain you make a fair chunk here, cant you get more servers, i mean, its not as if you dont have the cash (whatever form :))
Anyways, thats not Anonymous in my personal opinion. Doesnt sit right with me. Anyways, hope you get the servers up and running soon, and dont think people have to worry about anything :)
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Hi,
Im pretty new around here and am a new seller and you take a % (6.XX) and im certain you make a fair chunk here, cant you get more servers, i mean, its not as if you dont have the cash (whatever form :))
Anyways, thats not Anonymous in my personal opinion. Doesnt sit right with me. Anyways, hope you get the servers up and running soon, and dont think people have to worry about anything :)
The site was running fine for a good long while so coins are put to good use. It's not always as easy to resolve these things by just buying another server. You do realize that acquiring and/or provisioning new server is not the fastest thing to do in the first place let alone configured as SR is in an anonymous fashion.
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At least it's not a direct issue with us, and they're just after the Peados (if it's even true!!)
I'm sure SR will sort things soon enough, just have to be patient (which sucks, but oh well!!)
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The site was running fine for a good long while so coins are put to good use. It's not always as easy to resolve these things by just buying another server. You do realize that acquiring and/or provisioning new server is not the fastest thing to do in the first place let alone configured as SR is in an anonymous fashion.
QFT, if you buy/rent server space, at least IME, it's just like buying/renting a car or home. There are forms, contracts, etc. that have to be filled out and honestly I have no idea how SR have gotten away with being SR for so long. I wouldn't know the first thing about finding new server space anonymously and neither would you(generalm3sS) I'm guessing. I'm sure its not so much a money problem as it is a finding the right people to host the site problem. Like it says in the OP, they have to go to some less-than-reputable sources, which was the cause of the crash(according to SR, i still choose to believe anon are out there killing pedos on the streets ;D)
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dammit, can we please limit posts in this thread to significant updates regarding the status of the marketplace only?
or maybe start a new one that's just that alone...
all that matters is is shit workin or aint shit workin ;)
love y'all, but u muthafuckers talk to muthafuckin much, comin up tryin to holla about word on the street, man i dont giv a fuck about word on the street
stay to your own, get your own, be independent nigga! BEEATCH
aight im rippin off snoop now... :D
~smod
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You mean posts like that one you just made?? ;D
Its a community and this is a thread about the outage. If you don't like hearing the community talk about the outage direct your attention elsewhere i suppose. People are gonna talk about things that may be a little off topic, that's just part of a forum, but you're still gonna get the updates you crave as they happen. We're all in the same boat here and this is our only place to vent and chat about the ins and outs of the whole thing.
But what do I know? Not a lot really
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Trying to figure out which "UPDATE" is the most recent one O.o
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Thanks for keeping us updated SR, you're the man. Hope to see the site up soon.
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Ok everyone, SR is gonna get the site back up... every major website has went thru their share of growing pains and SR is no exception.
In the mean time I'm going to get the orders out that I can. I have some orders but not all of them so I'd like to thank everyone in advance for their understanding and consideration with regards to their orders being processed late!
Thank you for your continued patience in this matter,
Paperchasing
@mrnye666 & herpiusderpius - we previously debunked the claims of Anonymous attacking SR in the self-alleged attackers posts on the forum previously.
FINALLY a voice of reason. Too many SKY IS FALLING laments. Smoke or eat something. Don't say you have nothing because your coin is in limbo. There are plenty of household chemicals for you to play with until this clears up. Or go get a blowjob and relieve your stress............................LMFAO...........................................Bikerbum
Here look at these firm tits and blow a wad, you'll feel better.
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wow I got lucky I was able log on yesterday 9:30 est to SR and finalize my transactions.
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gosh, i received a bunch of orders today, and one of the vendors messed up a tiny bit.. but has been good in the past.
hope the website is back up soon so i can resolve my issue.
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I think some of us here are making false claims ::) lol
I hope you weren't referring to me because it is my first post. Fuck you. I've been an active member of the site since day one and I have all the documentation to prove that the funds were indeed sent to my silk road address and they aren't there because of the site going down.
No one cares about your rude opinion.
I don't think people realize that some of us have changed usernames, because of password problems, and also, just for the protection it provides...this is some weird shit going down lately, and until we know who/what is behind it, probably helps to use a different u/n
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Hi there,
I found a side on the onion network which is working at the moment. It's called blackmarket reloaded and it's pretty much the same like here. So will buy on this side as long as silkroad is down..
http://5onwnspjvuk7cwvk.onion/index.php
CU there
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lol @ above. XD
Why does SR have to allow photos right when it goes online if it overloads the site just when everyone is connecting?..
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Haha people are really tweakin things will turn out fine give it some time
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Meh.....:(
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Listen Up, I f you don't know who I am ...you should.
Yes, of course we know who you are... You're the angry guy with broken English.
Please be sure to let us all know when we can log in again, sir.
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Thank-you Silk Road for all your hard work! I'm sure the site will only get better as we plough through the tough times.
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This service just gets better and better. I can deal with a little down time as long as security and stability improves. Shit! I'm broke anyway! lol. I love SR!!! ;D
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Silk Road, ftw! But seriously, go to your local metropolitan city to get your drugs in the mean time. Hell, just going to the south side of chicago yesterday made me realize what a luxury SR is. I also don't like the gun toting dealers out there...
Take ur time SR.
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Hi there,
I found a side on the onion network which is working at the moment. It's called blackmarket reloaded and it's pretty much the same like here. So will buy on this side as long as silkroad is down..
http://5onwnspjvuk7cwvk.onion/index.php
CU there
Hey, just give me a bitcoin address to send my funds to and I can save time never going to black market. Really.
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When exactly will we be credited our missing BTC SR?
Thanks :)
-RI
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Whats so bad about BlackMarket? I've used it a few times. But just out of curiosity really... I love silkroad but when shes outta town...... Lol
I think if SilkRoad sellers had accounts for both sites it would work for them during times like these. And it would work for me too.... I'm trying to get some shit in by halloween, but it doesn't look like its gunna happen.. :'(
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I am happy none of this happened when I was handing out all the samples. I actually am also glad it was up long enough on Tuesday to grab the one order I had and ship it out :P
As for the Black market website, I know its like loyalties being divided for some people, but its just another place for people to branch out to. SR took my money for a sellers account here, so I don't feel massive loyalties to just having my stock up for sale with just them. In fact I was on other sites before SR. It may have been a bit tacky though to through the link here at the moment though.
I am sure SR will be back up and running in no time and I agree with other posters that I would prefer for them to take their time. If they are going to do it, they will want to make sure they do it right. I have no idea the logistics required to running a site like this and I am grateful its even up. Ty SR and hope you work out the kinks.
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The site was up and running for a bit yesterday, so I sent a bunch of bitcoins over...but now the site's down again, so what's going to happen to my bitcoins? It was a pretty big chunk for me...I was waiting until I got paid, and the day I finally have the bitcoins, the site goes down :(
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Jesus H - settle the fuck down everybody. I know some of you are probably tweaking about funds just chill - there is no reason to believe that SR will not make things right. Additionally, systems such as this are by nature some what risky - you should keep that in mind when you make financial decisions. Also a big fuck you to the blackmarket asshat - making an account to make one post, advertising your site on a thread which is about the operational status of another site is greasier than a greek bathhouse attendants arsed sphincter. If individual vendors want to provide their customers with a different place to reach them fine - but to pimp your site like you did is most shameful. Give SR admin some more time - huff some paint if you need to - just relax and remember, the more time he spends writing updates to reassure us that he is working on it the less time he spends fixing the problem.
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Sup Admin?
I realize u r busy so I will make it quick. I sent a message to a seller several hours b4 the site crashed the other day. Are sellers able to read any of their messages while the site is down?
Cheers
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Sup Admin?
I realize u r busy so I will make it quick. I sent a message to a seller several hours b4 the site crashed the other day. Are sellers able to read any of their messages while the site is down?
Cheers
NO.
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hahaha yeah this is crazy.. it's been a few days now? at least the forums are working but I can't imagine how sr can be getting this much traffic
to practically crash the servers! 8)
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Calm down people, we are not the only having difficulties!
The Brilliant, Unworkable New Silk Road:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/the-brilliant-unworkable-new-silk-road/246425/
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Whats so bad about BlackMarket? I've used it a few times. But just out of curiosity really... I love silkroad but when shes outta town...... Lol
I think if SilkRoad sellers had accounts for both sites it would work for them during times like these. And it would work for me too.... I'm trying to get some shit in by halloween, but it doesn't look like its gunna happen.. :'(
It's just that no sellers have ratings, no buyers have ratings, there's almost no selection, so pretty much every transaction is going to be a reach. And I don't want to reach in a new environment where no one has any real skin in the game.
Maybe it'll happen over time. But I'll wait on SR.
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is it me or does the message that declares downtime load super fucking fast right now. like usually with tor it takes a century for the thing to connect to the SR URL. now it's lightning speed. maybe they've migrated? here's hoping.
although i fear i won't be able to order until tomorrow morning at the earliest. :/
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We're back up at a new .onion URL - the old one was unusable after the outages.
http://4cl2hjqa6y5gys5a.onion/index.php/silkroad
Happy trading!
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
NOBODY FALL FOR THAT
Jeez, some people are real wankers.
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why does post it a newbie and no admin :P
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We're back up at a new .onion URL - the old one was unusable after the outages.
http://4cl2hjqa6y5gys5a.onion/index.php/silkroad
Happy trading!
Really? you sir, are a doofus.
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We're back up at a new .onion URL - the old one was unusable after the outages.
http://4cl2hjqa6y5gys5a.onion/index.php/silkroad
Happy Trolling! (Bikerbum edit)
Fucking thieves are everywhere as usual..........................................................Bikerbum
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Ok so why does that link posted by the newbie look exactly like the silk road login? I mean the address is almost the same, everything else looks ok. Before i enter any details r u all saying that dude is full of shit?
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I dunno.. another guy said there's a keylogger or something.
2nd login try loaded FOREVER, but it looks like it's working ? Missing a few coins though.. deposit taking forever to verify?
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I totally fell for that! stupid
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I know it must be a bitch to host a site like SR, but I was really counting on a couple of the transactions going thru before the weekend to travort (sic) and to vivi15 - I hope they make it - It was a lot of money to a poor guy like myself!
Thanks SR for all you do - I know it's tough!
-Tofuu
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On Black Market: I went there when they first got rolling, last time SR was down, and I have to say I got ripped off twice. Wasn't major, best I can remember, but they didn't have escrow, and the scammers were using names from SR, and selling similar product. I went from there over to OLDB, and found what I was looking for.
I did find the owner of BM over on the bitcoin forums, and he was friendly and honest about it. Made me appreciate escrow a whole lot, when SR finally came back up..and I think since then, BM has gotten escrow in.
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Wait, I'm confused.. so there is no new SR at a new url, right? that was just a scam, right?
I'm kinda fucked up and just trying to clear things up.. I need to finalize a couple orders that arrived but I can't because the site is down.
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It's a scam. There's only one legit SR url.
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Is the bitcoin address for SR posted somewhere if we want to donate? Looking forward to the site being back up :)
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I had a thought earlier, to avoid something like what happened with the second crash due to so many users sitting there ctrl+f5'ing every five minutes til they saw it up, then flooding the server right as it got back up and running.
So, the idea goes a little like this, SR starts up but doesn't tell ANYONE but sellers. That way all the sellers can get on, the server won't be overrun, and they can get their pics and listings back up, check their messages etc. Then, the sellers can message SR and let them know who has pending transactions. Then all the sellers can log off, the buyers who still need to finalize orders and such can then be told that the sights up and they get on finalize, etc. Then tell those with BTC stuck on SR so they can place orders, rinse, wash repeat.
All the while they can still be on the lookout for more server space to accommodate the large number of members, and work out the kinks and bugs that may be left in the backup of the site. After its all up and running with all the server space required, and everything working, THEN make a "public" announcement, and hope that the server doesn't flood.
Of course this is a moot point if its more than just a server space problem, but I thought it was a good idea, I've take 2 clonapins tho, so it may be an awful idea.
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I had a thought earlier, to avoid something like what happened with the second crash due to so many users sitting there ctrl+f5'ing every five minutes til they saw it up, then flooding the server right as it got back up and running.
So, the idea goes a little like this, SR starts up but doesn't tell ANYONE but sellers. That way all the sellers can get on, the server won't be overrun, and they can get their pics and listings back up, check their messages etc. Then, the sellers can message SR and let them know who has pending transactions. Then all the sellers can log off, the buyers who still need to finalize orders and such can then be told that the sights up and they get on finalize, etc. Then tell those with BTC stuck on SR so they can place orders, rinse, wash repeat.
All the while they can still be on the lookout for more server space to accommodate the large number of members, and work out the kinks and bugs that may be left in the backup of the site. After its all up and running with all the server space required, and everything working, THEN make a "public" announcement, and hope that the server doesn't flood.
Amazing what F5 can do. The only thing I find a bit problematic, is getting people on accordingly. Sounds like a great idea; limiting the log on procedure to sellers only, and then the buyers. Hopefully there isn't any outstanding transactions that can't be fixed. And with the server space, and function, finding an offshore server is imo, difficult and scary. As you may not have total control on it.
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Atleast bitcoins arent crashing all day like they were wednesday =) broke my heart losing 40%
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yeah there was actually a minor 30 cent rally earlier today... scares the shit out of me keeping too many BTC in my wallet
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I had a thought earlier, to avoid something like what happened with the second crash due to so many users sitting there ctrl+f5'ing every five minutes til they saw it up, then flooding the server right as it got back up and running.
So, the idea goes a little like this, SR starts up but doesn't tell ANYONE but sellers. That way all the sellers can get on, the server won't be overrun, and they can get their pics and listings back up, check their messages etc. Then, the sellers can message SR and let them know who has pending transactions. Then all the sellers can log off, the buyers who still need to finalize orders and such can then be told that the sights up and they get on finalize, etc. Then tell those with BTC stuck on SR so they can place orders, rinse, wash repeat.
All the while they can still be on the lookout for more server space to accommodate the large number of members, and work out the kinks and bugs that may be left in the backup of the site. After its all up and running with all the server space required, and everything working, THEN make a "public" announcement, and hope that the server doesn't flood.
Amazing what F5 can do. The only thing I find a bit problematic, is getting people on accordingly. Sounds like a great idea; limiting the log on procedure to sellers only, and then the buyers. Hopefully there isn't any outstanding transactions that can't be fixed. And with the server space, and function, finding an offshore server is imo, difficult and scary. As you may not have total control on it.
Yeah, I agree. Basically we'd need a new thread where all of us who had to star new accounts on the forums, and who have pending/in transit transaction, post their SR usernames(if you can get on your original account here then your one of the lucky few) so that SR would know who to contact after the sellers get everything back to normal. And if we could be patient and keep cycling our allotted time, and get on only long enough to do what we need and get off, then report to SR when we get off we could still use SR and give the admins the time they need to find server space without having to resort to risky offshore servers. IDK, just my 0.02BTC ;)
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yeah there was actually a minor 30 cent rally earlier today... scares the shit out of me keeping too many BTC in my wallet
I do not know what I will do with my BTC as well. I just finished transferring from my BA to ####, and now I am thinking twice before I send anything, or use SR during this week. Who knows how many times it will come up and go down.
Besides, maybe the market will pick up again. I do not understand the BTC economy, but I wish it went back to the 1BTC = $11. That would just make me freaking rich, lol.
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On Black Market: I went there when they first got rolling, last time SR was down, and I have to say I got ripped off twice. Wasn't major, best I can remember, but they didn't have escrow, and the scammers were using names from SR, and selling similar product. I went from there over to OLDB, and found what I was looking for.
I did find the owner of BM over on the bitcoin forums, and he was friendly and honest about it. Made me appreciate escrow a whole lot, when SR finally came back up..and I think since then, BM has gotten escrow in.
OLDB? I knew about SR and BM(hehehe ;D) but whats OLDB?
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$@##*%
My nice pictures are gone ! But no problems just go to upload them if SR is back up!
Does anybody know if there is a alternative similar Site like SR?
If anybody want to reach me !? just sent a message to underground@tormail.net
Peace out
;)
UG
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You have to admit, this is an excellent way to have gotten EVERYONE to get to the forums :D
I know there was a few threads a wee while back about how annoying it was people weren't getting onto the forums till they got into a spot of trouble. :)
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I gotta say i signed up on BM for a selling account and its still pending. Theres no one there and i see names like uergen2001 which blatently aint them. The fact that theres nothing on there for sale (about 20-30 items) tells the storey if you ask me :)
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black market is a pretty new and looks like a potent alternative, i think sellers should use both?
hoping to see SR get back on its wagon, feels weird without it :)
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yeah, I signed up as well, but honestly I don't think we should be parading it in this thread.
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the first time it came back i transfered 125BTC to my SR account from my MT.GOX account and i cant log in to see if there there or not, my mt.gox account says 65 transactions completed does that mean they are in there? i spent 3/4 of my wages on them as i was going to buy cocaine in bulk and then split it and sell in 0.5grams, please someone tell me there going to be there when i finally get to log in to my SR account
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the first time it came back i transfered 125BTC to my SR account from my MT.GOX account and i cant log in to see if there there or not, my mt.gox account says 65 transactions completed does that mean they are in there? i spent 3/4 of my wages on them as i was going to buy cocaine in bulk and then split it and sell in 0.5grams, please someone tell me there going to be there when i finally get to log in to my SR account
They said there may be a few problems but they will sort that out no problem. I wouldn't worry yourself ;)
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also my forum account has gone down from 75posts to 11 and im a newby again :'(
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first post updated
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I don't see an edit on the first post since over an hour ago. Am I missing something?
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I hope the light are not turned off at the end of the tunnel :)
Seems that sr is near a new beginning
Keep up the good work guys,
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i dont see any update past what i see an hour ago,
keep up the good work SR you must be well stressed and tired.
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I don't see an edit on the first post since over an hour ago. Am I missing something?
"UPDATE 8AM UTC 10/21/2011: The light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger! We have a full capacity server online and are in the process of configuring it. Two other independent, full capacity servers are in the pipeline to serve as backups, so if we ever have an unexpected outage again we won't be scrambling to find a server that can handle the traffic. I am so incredibly sorry this happened. Thank you for hanging in there and being so understanding :)"
Great news, SR. Thanks.
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YAY!
:D Ty for the update :)
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I am planning to fill the new server with my customers traffic :D
I did a little test on the morale here. New guy 0/0% comes to me saying he wants 10g weed for $100, but only has $90 in BTC because it fell so quickly. I thought let's see, so I sent him $10 straight and said, now you have enough! And why did I ever doubt it. Next day he buys for $100 and he's been smoking ever since :o
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I really appreciate all these updates you've given us :) Couldn't ask for a better admin/team. Much love to you guys, my business is staying right here.
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Couldn't ask for a better admin/team. Much love to you guys, my business is staying right here.
+1
another +1
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had a look at that black market place - not impressed, just gonna chill with ordering until my 1-stop-shop is back up n running at full steam ;D
Ditto. Feels almost like one of those pro-abstinence adverts: Silk Road is worth it, I can wait.
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""... imagine if silk road was in a coma for like three days....and when it woke up everyone was dead except me, and i was a racecar driver...but then i crashed and I was in a coma, and when i woke up THEY were racecar drivers? "" -----------stewie ::)
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sound like you're not out of stock yet ..
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Was so excited to make my first SR purchase! :'(
Trying to hang in there and resist the temptation of using one of the shadier sites..
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I would doubt if annonymous has anything to do with any onion downages especialy SR most of them look like thay would enjoy a spliff.
Its reminisent of the way the media said thay were going steel customers money from the playstation network.i havent heard of one case.Thay are supposed to be for the people not against them,But its obviously worrying for goverments/multinationals/media,etc otherwise thay wouldnt be putting on this scaremongering spin. .i think if it was mallicious its more likely to be a goverment department .
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Its been 5 days is over for SR??
there is a similar site that works?
If it is really sad! R.I.P.
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Wish you the best SR staff, No worries Shit happens we'll be here when it gets back online.
eeer azerty6757 did you read any of the OP, SR is going no where! And us vendors are not going to other sites it's SR or nothing IMO
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I don't know about everybody else but this outage has made me realize how much I was taking SR for granted. I thought nothing of loggin on, window shopping and then making a transaction at some stage.
I know mail sourcing has its vulnerabilities but it sure as hell beats having to deal with some of the people I used to have to and waiting around in dark alleys to score or waiting for no one to turn up at all.
C'mon Silk keep it going, it sounds like you're nearly there! :) I've never known a site as good as this and will be so grateful if it gets up and running again.
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Any idea on a timeframe yet guys????
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Silk, just seen your last message.
Well done for everything and keep up the good work
Fly
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Just giving my support for the Team who maintains Silk Road.
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I too was in the midst of my first transaction when this all happened. No worries though. SR you're doing great things here and seems like things will only get better. Thank you for what you're doing, and get some sleep nigga!
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UPDATE 1:00PM UTC 10/21/2011: We are sooooo close to going live again. And I am sooooo exhausted :) We're still doing the final tests and configurations, but I'm going to want to get a little sleep before we go live, so once we are ready to go, I am going to get a few hours of sleep, then wake up and launch so I will have the energy to oversee how it's going and respond to everyone's messages that I'm sure will come flooding in. See you soon :)
Get some sleep, take more than only a couple hours if you have to, take 10hrs or more if you have to. The more you rest, the better shape you will be in to deal with anything that comes up. I would like to thank you in advance for the fantastic job you have done repairing the site and dealing with updating everyone.
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Keep up the good work. No one benefits from making anything live before getting some sleep. Keep it real - this is after all - for now - against most of the rules that make up our alleged society - so it is probably natural for it to have service outages. It's like the guy on the corner... he isn't always there... is he?
Again, much obliged and thank you.
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Take as long as you need SR, you have my support! Look forward to the market returning better than ever... :D
As for Anon, I think it's a great idea that CP is being targeted.
Personally, I'm more worried about the BTC tanking so much this month, and if and when it will bounce back...
I'm sure most of us have lost heaps this month T__T
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UPDATE 1:00PM UTC 10/21/2011: We are sooooo close to going live again. And I am sooooo exhausted :) We're still doing the final tests and configurations, but I'm going to want to get a little sleep before we go live, so once we are ready to go, I am going to get a few hours of sleep, then wake up and launch so I will have the energy to oversee how it's going and respond to everyone's messages that I'm sure will come flooding in. See you soon :)
Get some sleep, take more than only a couple hours if you have to, take 10hrs or more if you have to. The more you rest, the better shape you will be in to deal with anything that comes up. I would like to thank you in advance for the fantastic job you have done repairing the site and dealing with updating everyone.
+1
Get some rest!
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can't wait for things to come back online!! glory days, well they'll pass you by glory days!
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And all ye soothsayers that've been preaching "the end is nigh" on the corners probly feel pretty dumb right about.....well not now but at that moment that you realized you we're worried over a hill of bananas you probly felt like an ass.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL at whoever put up that stewie quote. That was great.
SR you guys rule, I'm with the rest of the people saying you get as much rest as needed. If your like me then you haven't got much sleep because you've been working too hard. Relax, burn one, take a rail of smack, take a looong nap, wake again, burn another, then take a hotrail of some nice speed and get back at it. I, for one, can wait as long as it takes and I know many on here feel the same.
My heart goes out to everyone that's been tirelessly working on this, As soon as I get some more BTC I'm for sure gonna donate to keep this wheel in the sky a-turnin'
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first post updated
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Never any doubt :)
Glad you got some rest SR.
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why during your rest period was the update thread not on here ? when i followed the link from the site to this forum it was gone and people were asking were it had gone have you got any insight on this matter ?
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Can't wait to be back up and running! :)
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Sweet hopefully no more problems@!
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heres why warweed:
FUCK OFF
Well damn.. thats a nice, friendly answer. The village people are shaken, People are searching for answers (at least, the people that don't know where to look already:D ), they look here for them.
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Just wanted to stop by and let the ppl at SR know their work isnt going unappreciated. I am going to try my best not to get on right away and start doing things, hopefully we wont flood the system. I know at this point everyone is on alert waiting for this great commodity to come back to us.
Thanks again for all the hard work!
Best,
OSO
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All is cool...shit happens.
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Thanks SR for all the hard work!!
In SR we trust :)
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Haa soo cool SR!
Sellers be prepared! My bitcoins needs you lol
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Thanks to the Silk Road admins bustin ass and burning the midnight oil to get things going, much love.
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Its been 5 days is over for SR??
there is a similar site that works?
If it is really sad! R.I.P.
ok blackmarket guy you and redrocket go jerk off to their empty site full of scammers.
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Any status reports SR ? I appreciate your work but curious as to what stage of progress your In you keep saying your hammering out the issues working on stuff making sure it was bug free makes me wonder if there is a bigger problem ?
perhaps I'm just wigging like the rest but i mean and i don't know the details of the site but if im not mistaken pretty much most of SR is just sql data *most of* if it just needs to be restored whats the issue since pictures are already gone it must honestly just be php and sql data and since there is just a master wallet or wallets and all the site does is move a transparent number around from one user to another till they want to withdraw ...
im just confused at what the issue is i do appreciate you giving us more feedback then the mtgox staff did when they had there issue but it would be nice to have a bit more period updates :)
cheers and hope your back online again shortly
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Honestly I'd prefer that he keep the details of any fixes or upgrades s/he/they are doing private.
Think of it like being a kid on Christmas Eve. One more sleep and then it's presents! (Depending on where you live).
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SR, thanks for all the hard work. I know how much effort it takes to keep a website like this alive. Idk what kind of tools or your level of administration sophistication you are using to keep things going in the backend, so I hope I am not preaching to the choir, but if you don't already do it, I think mysql replication over an SSH connection over tor would be pretty awesome and not hard to set up (I assume you are using mysql). Keep a binary log on each slave that logs slave updates, use automysqlbackup nightly (stop and start the slave when you do that) and you will always have up to the second backups even if an evil person starts destroying data or takes the master server offline. Just my two cents. Keep up the excellent work!
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does verify correctly. I am satisfied that the Silk Road we see now is not an imposter. The problem I noticed was probably caused by an edit to the post. Sorry for the false alarm, but I want to keep everyone safe and secure.
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OLDB? I knew about SR and BM(hehehe ;D) but whats OLDB?
Open Vendor Database: http://g7pz322wcy6jnn4r.onion/opensource/ovdb/ac/index.php
It was/is a good site, for me, last time we were down here...
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The signed message in the original post IS NOT VALID. This could mean it's an imposter posing as SR.
However, I notice that there is an "update" in the middle of the message. It could be that SR edited the message quickly without paying attention to what he was doing. This would also make the signature invalid.
I apologize if this has already been mentioned, but I am not going to read through an 18 page thread to get out this important information. SR needs to fix the problem in the original post.
If this post disappears, it pretty much rules out any innocent explanation. If the situation is resolved to my satisfaction, I will replace this post with another one signed with my key.
This is my public key:
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can you post the SR pub key? thanks.
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I think SR is up?
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first post updated
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I went through all signed posts by SR. All were valid with the exception of 2 or 3. So it's not unprecedented for it to happen. It probably is just edits after the fact. Nonetheless, it'd be nice to have it verified since its the thing we count on.
This is the SR public key that I copied from his account on SR before it went down last:
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first post updated
Thanks. Bikerbum
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The click here to register button is broken :(
I don't know how to access.
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I have a copy of the first message that I saw that SilkRoad posted and it already had the "UPDATE:" section in it, and it, too, does not check out with the signature. It could very well be I did not see the original original post, however. I have a feeling everything is fine, but would be nice to get one last signed confirmation from you, SilkRoad :)
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Aaaaaaand we are down again! :o :'(
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site is down again yep
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really! I no sooner than logged in and it crashed again? WTF
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next time let's try to stay up for a full hour before crashing again!
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heh, i go to place an order and it goes down. not having good luck the last couple days
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Refresh Refresh Refresh...haha at least i got to check my pms.
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bummerssss
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What a relief.
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Nice, faster! UP!
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Nice, faster! UP!
I think the forums have been faster too. Haven't had any timeouts in a while.
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i just tried to empty my sr account incase it goes down again and when i try i get a message saying no withdraws untils 2am sunday. be warned
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Still missing BTC
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I think everyone will have to be patient while the site admins thread through the bock chains and put people's deposits where they belong, and make any shopping cart transactions that got stuck in the midst of an DB transaction. They can do it. Mighrt take a day or two.
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Does sending in BTC work now? Anyone willing to try?
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The register button redirects you back to the login page, so yeah, that doesn't work. Seems busy around here, but show the noobs some love when you can :)
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Does sending in BTC work now? Anyone willing to try?
After you ;D
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Down Down Down into the burning ring of fire! :(
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Does sending in BTC work now? Anyone willing to try?
Bit the bullet on this one.. Will report success/failure :D
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Poof, its gone again :( Ooooohhhhh......well at least I got a few messages out - Hey!!!! Tryptamine.....if you see this I need some more LEGAL capsules of MindFood and Chill and Think.....cgault@tormail.net
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Holy shit, the forum is lightning fast now.
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BTC sent this morning was there when I was able to log in. I was also able to use my btc to place an order. I didn't try to withdraw, but then I never withdraw.
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I'm on right now in the other window and damn if the site and this forum aren't faster for me anyways. You other guys seem to be having technical difficulties on your end.
Maybe they added a module that slows down everybody who constantly BITCHES. I'll tell you what, send me a half a coin and I'll tell you if I got it or not. LMAO
Bikerbum
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I think some of the flakiness is not the site going down.....its related to whatever the TOR equivalent of DNS is......some pages are not available, then they are, but I can send messages and browse, etc. I might hit a page that says, NO RESPONE, and then reload and it works - just like a DNS propagation problem on the clear web. Things are getting better, yahhhhh.......CRASH! No, UP, down....:(, I will login Tomorrow. My vendors, I love you all! Cali, Un, Maggots,, Goodfella, Mitanox (sorry, Im not ordering overseas for awhile because of Stupid DQB). Tryptamine, his legal vitamins for the brain rock.
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Suddenly was just able to get into SR whereas I couldn't 15 minutes ago, and it's definitely faster than I remember. Bonus!
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I don't know what you did, but It feels like you put a 12 core box in the rack! the TOR relays and service node are showing mad bandwidth. !!!! Thanks, tell me where to donate. You are awesome and getting all my balance....most of it.....quite a bit....a decent donation...a small but well intended tip. slipping just the tip in/ Kidding, good work, tell me where to donate.
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I'm toggling between SR and the Forum right now and both refresh with alot faster speed. You guys did a great job. My account is current and I still have my pending order with
LikeAngelDust. So far he hasn't been on the road yet but if I could get him to acknowledge I'm alive, that would also be a plus. LAD, you got pm and mail. Thanks, Bikerbum
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Yeeeessssiiiiirrrrr, feelsgoodman.jpg
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now im out bitcoins feedback and orders because the site was backed up to the first outage not the second one the second one i had 12 orders all shipped and received now i have no orders my custs can confirm and my bitcoins not there ..
wtf sr..
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Yeah, the main site loads noticeably faster now. Thanks for your hard work SR!
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i agree it loads quick but what about the discrepancy between last sr version and now there were orders placed received and funds transferred now its like everything was reverted back to a few days ago am i to trust all my customers will do the right thing and re order ?
common people are douche bags thats not going to happen .... and now sr prob has like 10k in messages :S i mean it wasn't that many btc for me but there are thousands in the sr wallet that are un accounted for
sr can you please address the issue on what actions your going to take to rectify the situation ?
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I'm going to wait til the site is up for 24 consecutive hours til I place a few orders.
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Yeeeessssiiiiirrrrr, feelsgoodman.jpg
Yeah buddy, this is the shizz shizz shizznet. SR, for sure put up a donation listing on the ROAD, I'm in. Here's some tits for ya. LOL
Bikerbum
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Yeeeessssiiiiirrrrr, feelsgoodman.jpg
Here's some tits for ya. LOL
Bikerbum
How about some new tits?
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Awesome!!!! Thanks again SR for all your hard work. I was behind you the whole time. See guys, site crash does not = end of world
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but damn if I didn't about forget my password ::)
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first post updated
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yea it back up ^^ been one boring week without SR so let all go buy some weed form godofall
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admin admin ฿***.** ฿***.** October 22, 2011, 3:50 am UTC
balance was corrected by sr staff when discrepancy between balances between old backup and new
cheers sr for your quick reply and help greatly appreciated :)
-warweed
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Hi SR,
Seems the signup feature is not working properly. I am unable to create a new account and login.
:(
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I realize that buyers and sellers have different agendas, but I, for one, am going to log out of SR and come back tomorrow some time, and let the DB breathe. Maybe if a few hundred buyers just lay off fro while, if nothing is urgent, it might make the database tuning and other tech shit easier for the admins and engineers while they tune the local network, firewall, TOR proxy settings, and database settings. I realize that some here have some uncommitted BTC transactions, but you must realize that Bitcoin was designed to allow for transaction recovery - its just takes time.
Give the SR admins time to get the transactions sorted out.
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Hi SR,
Seems the signup feature is not working properly. I am unable to create a new account and login.
:(
yeah, me neither
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Thanks very much & best wishes to everyone who worked to get main site back up!
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Seemed to be working good...did a few things had to be done, then got off....nice.
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Nice one lads ,good work,now keep it up :)
G2G
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Would take around an hour or so, in your bitcoin wallet you should see the transactions and the number of "confirmations", you need 6 confirmations I think for the transaction to clear. Just wait it out. To transfer funds to SR just go to your account and send the bitcoins to the address in your profile. You'll have to wait another hour or so for this. Hope this helps
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One last thing that is a bit confusing to me. At the bottom of my bitcoin wallet it says 8 connections and 132,912 blocks. Is this something I need to be concerned with or is that normal?
You wont see any of your transactions on your bitcoin wallet because you have not got all the blocks downloaded yet, Currently there is 150,200 blocks, So you wont even see your coins until that certain block with your transfers on it is downloaded.
Hope that helps you :)
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Has anyone been able to add any BTC since the site came back up? It's been over four hours since I sent mine and still nothing...
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Yea I added BTC 6 hours ago and still nothing :(
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Be patient, there is a flood of exchanging going on right now and it takes time for the block chain to catch up. Your coin will get there when it's turn comes up.
This isn't those ripoff artist's "Bunk America". On a second note, the speed of this site and SR is great. The servers should have crashed a month ago. LMFAO
Bikerbum
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It's just the site being down. Mine came up, and last time, in june when site was down a *while* I wrote it off as gone, and it came up too...only thing, then btc was on the way *up* so I made money...but SR is righteous, and I've lost betc everywhere but here...as others have said, site was just down, it'll show, probably today
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I was on the site last night (west coast north america time) now it is down again (sunup).
Patient I am but growing eager to have this behind us. There are works to accomplish.
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Alright so, on a serious note:
On Wednesday night, I sent exactly 100 btc to SilkRoad right before the big crash.
Today, I am up on S.R. but my btc are not there.
Can somebody in the know tell me if I can ever expect to see those?
Are other people experiencing this at this point?
I'm weirdly not pissed about this yet. That's kinda why I'm asking, just confused and trying to figure out my strategy...
Thanks!
~smod
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I sent 100 BTC to SR last night and they haven't shown up yet. It sounds like a lot of people are having this problem. Does anyone know if they will ever arrive? I would be quite upset about losing all this money, especially since it belonged to a friend of mine who was going to make a purchase - it is going to be hard to explain that my friend's $300 just disappeared.
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Email SR on the site the bitcoin address you sent your BTC too
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"I dont wanna know nuthin except when my BTC are gonna show up!!!!
I get it, I do, we all do. This is a new type of exchange medium, the Bitcoin, and was designed so that a central authority is not needed to clear transactions. It's a peer to peer technology that uses a stream of transaction blocks that can be inspected (by people and the wallet software) so that transactions that are not acknowledged can be completed. It would not hurt, if you are going to be using bitcoins, to watch the bitcoin.org video or read up a little on the transfer mechanism.
It takes a finite amount of time to do a regular transfer when both the sending and receiving systems are operational, and it may take longer when a systems is down, and a little longer still for stalled transactions to be fixed by a system that keeps the wallet for you, such as SR.
Bitcoins are designed not go missing, technically. SR just came off of a serious outage, so give them a message and some reasonable time to get the transactions sorted. Trust in the block chain.
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I did what I was instructed to do.
Report the transaction to SR_Admin.
3 hours later BTC was in account.
Thank You.
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Man, I'm working from memory, but I've had real 'slowdown' problems, and it seems to be depending on what computer I"m on...little netbook seems to stall, while if I put it on other computer, is speedier...still can easily take 24 hrs getting wallet full. The other ways I've done, if I just get tired of seeing it stuck at 130000 or something like that, is to just download and install all the blocks, on a flash drive, then transfer them over and run them with the wallet.dat. I know how to do it, just not to explain it real good, especially if you get stalled, you can take your address, and go to block.explorer.com, see if it's already there, and what block it was at. Here: here's the forum I got help, and one of the threads I followed:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=47297.0
I'm too tired to explain it rite now, I'll see if somebody else has helped, or go back over what I did...don't get discouraged, I've waited a couple of days on a stuck wallet, and as long as you have your wallet.dat, you won't lose your money...
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Since the first outage its been around 1 week with no access.
I spent many hours to try to get access again but i get whether the message "we are terribly sorry..." or the loginpage displayed. After filling out the correct login on the correct URL I am always pushed back to a new captcha.
Even trying to make a new account on the form is being back pushed to a cleared form and capture.
So SILK ROAD please have a look into my profile "SILDENAFIL" and bring me back online!
I already sent my answering Email-adress to the SR-Admin...
I am using the newest TOR-Software 7.01
Do you thing that this might be a problem??
PLEASE ANSWER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE - IF POSSIBLE PLEASE VIA EMAIL
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Hello, Hello.... Everything in my account on Silkroad is OK money on it's place, new money also!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank You!!
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Since the first outage its been around 1 week with no access.
I spent many hours to try to get access again but i get whether the message "we are terribly sorry..." or the loginpage displayed. After filling out the correct login on the correct URL I am always pushed back to a new captcha.
Even trying to make a new account on the form is being back pushed to a cleared form and capture.
So SILK ROAD please have a look into my profile "SILDENAFIL" and bring me back online!
I already sent my answering Email-adress to the SR-Admin...
I am using the newest TOR-Software 7.01
Do you thing that this might be a problem??
PLEASE ANSWER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE - IF POSSIBLE PLEASE VIA EMAIL
It took me 3 or 4 tries on the captcha to log in just now, and i know i typed it correct each and every time. Maybe try a few more times while waiting for Admin help, restart Tor a time or two and hope for a better connection?
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Yep, it's all working for me...and it might be overkill, but I think it's good to have a backup username here and on main site, stashed w/password, so if things get weird, and you can't get in regular accnt, u can try the other...
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and remember......
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn Pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Oops//////Poof, down again?
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when will the cancel button work again? I have an order that I could have/should have canceled before the crash. Now the link is back, but when I click it, it says it is disabled
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My BTC transfers to SR yesterday never showed up, but my transfers from today with a newer SR addy did, so it is obviously not just a blockchain download issue, FWIW. Still, I know Silk Road will get to my message detailing the missing transaction and credit my account. I'll just have to wait a bit more before I get my drugs :P
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oh yeeeaahh!
just woke up with all my btc restored that had been lost since wednesday!
and that's wassup, muthafakoo!!
woohoo!!!!
;D
~love,smod
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when will the cancel button work again? I have an order that I could have/should have canceled before the crash. Now the link is back, but when I click it, it says it is disabled
Cancel Button is back. I canceled my order with LikeAngelDust, he's still AWOL.
Bikerbum
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oh yeeeaahh!
just woke up with all my btc restored that had been lost since wednesday!
and that's wassup, muthafakoo!!
woohoo!!!!
;D
~love,smod
you are able to log in? I have tried refreshing but it appears the site is down again....
possibly an overload of traffic with the start of a new week
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arrrrghhhhhh
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oh yeeeaahh!
just woke up with all my btc restored that had been lost since wednesday!
and that's wassup, muthafakoo!!
woohoo!!!!
;D
~love,smod
you are able to log in? I have tried refreshing but it appears the site is down again....
possibly an overload of traffic with the start of a new week
meh, every once in awhile it throws some socks at me, but for the first part, yeah, everythings cool on my end :-\ sorry youre havin trubbles!
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Oh dear,
I think the site might be back down again :: sniffles:: :'(
I am glad I managed to send off the shipments again.
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Oh dear,
I think the site might be back down again :: sniffles:: :'(
I am glad I managed to send off the shipments again.
I'm logged into the site as I type this, so yea, maybe high traffic, etc. earlier when you were trying to get in.
BTW it's nice to see the main page of SR with all of it's items having pictures again.
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I can't believe I'm actually getting SR withdrawals ...
Glad to be back people!
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and we are down again :(
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:( looks like it
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and we are up :)
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And we are down for maintainence again lol.
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SUX
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we have lift off again lol
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Up here!