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Newbie discussion / Re: Chances of getting caught?
« on: February 08, 2013, 05:38 am »
LSD is one of the safest drugs to ship, since it can easily be disguised in a regular envelope (safer than larger packages).

If you want to learn PGP, try the tutorial in my signature and join the Newbie PGP Club. :)

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Newbie discussion / Re: Newbie PGP Club
« on: February 08, 2013, 05:36 am »
@Christchurch

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Off topic / Re: Fat burner recommendations? Almost Spring Break!
« on: February 08, 2013, 05:30 am »
Low carb is very effective. There are a few dozen causes of hunger, but I'm convinced that a major cause is the drop in blood sugar. You eat a meal, your blood sugar spikes, a few hours later it drops and you get hungry. If your blood sugar never spikes, then it can't crash and you don't get (as) hungry. I can consume 1000 - 1500 calories a day without getting hungry on a low carb diet and quickly lose weight. I've found it to be very effective for short term weight loss, although hard to sustain for more than a few months.

So if  you need to lose 5 to 20 kilograms (10 to 50 pounds), try low carb. If you need to lose more, you will need a more sustainable long term option.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: GQ article - the hunt for DPR
« on: February 08, 2013, 04:52 am »
Quote from: danconia on February 08, 2013, 04:31 am
Hopefully private contact / personal info has never truly been compromised though.

The nice thing about SR's design is that it requires almost zero trust in the admins. If you PGP encrypt your address, it won't matter if the database containing shipping info is compromised. The only point at which you must trust SR is when you transfer coins to your account. You trust that they will credit your account and hold your money in escrow. Vendors trust that the coins will be transferred to them. Everything else, including obtaining the coins, can be secured independently of SR.

I know that in practice that isn't the case. 80% of buyers don't encrypt their address. Most people think that sending coins through a few ewallets unlinks them from SR. We can't prevent all unsafe behavior, but we have the tools to engage in safe behavior, almost completely independently from SR.

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Customer support / Re: SENT 29 BTC TO ACCOUNT AND IT NEVER ARRIVED
« on: February 08, 2013, 04:32 am »
Quote from: Captaingreen on February 08, 2013, 01:33 am
I would recommend you check the transaction on blockchain website.

This.

But some people might not know that web site.  If you transfer coins to your SR account, you can always go to blockchain.info (over Tor, of course), and search for the receiving address. If it shows the coins, then the transaction is valid and will (usually) show up in your SR account after 6 confirmations.

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Newbie discussion / Re: Newbie PGP Club
« on: February 08, 2013, 04:20 am »
@MetroidFan381

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Silk Road discussion / Re: How to completely avoid getting arrested, charged and convicted like Shadh1
« on: February 08, 2013, 04:04 am »
Quote from: zerik on February 07, 2013, 08:45 am
I disagree with step one. Leaves you way too vulnerable to theft, extortion, and just plan rating. Hell they might give you up if they get busted for something unrelated to make a deal out of their mess.

You're absolutely right. Your shipping contact might get busted for an unrelated petty crime, and to make the charge go away, he can say, "Hey, I'm getting shit tons of drugs for this other guy. In fact, there's a package coming in next week. He sells to tons of people..."

The point is, never outsource your security and keep as few people involved as possible.

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4. Have a runner pick up the packages for you after 24 hours

Have you never seen those cop shows? They'll flip 3 or 4 people in a row until they get to the main guy. A human in between you and LE offers zero security. Don't get more people involved. That's just more people who know about your business and who can rat on you for unrelated reasons.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: ฿itcoin bastards
« on: February 08, 2013, 03:56 am »
Quote from: catfishinmysocks on February 08, 2013, 03:03 am
Why are pesos not popular in the US?

It's a little different, since the United States is not in a legal and economic union with Mexico in the same way that the UK is in the European Union, with a standardized currency.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: GQ article - the hunt for DPR
« on: February 08, 2013, 03:47 am »
Quote from: astor on February 08, 2013, 03:40 am
If the infrastructure is really secure

On that note, I hope SR team is doing something like this

http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=100998.msg705761#msg705761

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Silk Road discussion / Re: GQ article - the hunt for DPR
« on: February 08, 2013, 03:40 am »
Every news article is free advertising. SR owes most its popularity to the media, since it has done zero advertising of its own. SR's unprecedented popularity means buyers can choose from hundreds of vendors, unlike any other drug site, and vendors have access to tens of thousands of customers, unlike any other drug site. We all win.

If the infrastructure is really secure, as DPR says, then I welcome it.

I especially like where Adrian Chen said that people were emailing him about how to get on SR. He acts all moralistic, but really he doesn't give a shit. He continued to write new articles about SR, knowing they would increase the site's popularity, because those articles get him tons of hits.

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Off topic / Re: The reward for mining Bitcoins will drop from 50 to 25 in a couple months
« on: February 08, 2013, 03:26 am »
At least we can definitively answer that question now.

No.

The value of bitcoins is determined by the supply-demand ratio, which effectively means the amount of buying and selling on the exchanges. It has nothing to do with mining difficulty or rewards. Mining difficulty protects that bitcoin network from being compromised by bad actors (Cf. 51% attack). Mining rewards influence the mining difficulty, since they are an incentive to mine. But neither of these things affects the value of bitcoins.


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Silk Road discussion / Re: ฿itcoin bastards
« on: February 08, 2013, 01:55 am »
BTW, why are euros not popular in the UK?

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Silk Road discussion / Re: ฿itcoin bastards
« on: February 08, 2013, 01:49 am »
Quote from: Psychedelic Oatmeal on February 08, 2013, 01:17 am
Prices are pegged to normal price IRL or cheaper anyway.

And by "normal price", s/he means the United States dollar, which itself may go up or down against the British pound. :)

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Silk Road discussion / Re: GQ article - the hunt for DPR
« on: February 07, 2013, 11:08 pm »
GQ's journalists are clearly a cut above local newspaper reporters. :)

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Silk Road discussion / Re: GQ article - the hunt for DPR
« on: February 07, 2013, 11:02 pm »
I agree, that is the most thorough and least sensational article I've ever read about SR. I would quibble with a few minor details, but overall it's very good. They interviewed a lot of central people, the researcher Nicolas Christin, Runa Sandvik of the Tor Project, Mike Hearn of Google, who works on Bitcoin -- even DPR, in a sense. ;)

A highly recommended read.

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