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It should have nothing to do with the bitcoin client. The coins are tied to an address in that wallet. You can export the private key for the bitcoin address and add it to a new wallet, or move the wallet to a new client, and the coins will show up wherever the private key for that bitcoin address is.

Can you see the bitcoin address in the receiving addresses part of the bitcoin client?

@Vole

pine hasn't logged in in a long time, but you can grab my key from the link in my signature and send me an encrypted message.

I done got on SR and ordered a bunch of drugs what made my brain not all dumb like, that's why.

LOL.

You smoked a breakthrough dose of DMT. As your eyes adjusted to the kaleidoscopic fractals, Phil Zimmerman's face appeared, and he said,

Let me tell you about the 6 bits of reality...

1 Bit: You ask me for a PGP key, and I give you a raccoon.

2 Bits: You ask me for a PGP key, but it turns out I don't really exist. Where I was originally standing, a QR code rests on the ground.

3 Bits: You awake as a PGP key. You start screaming only to have entropy fly from your lips. The world is in sepia.

4 Bits: Why are we speaking German? A mime cries softly as he cradles a prime. Your grandfather stares at you as the prime falls apart into the Fibonacci sequence.  You look down only to see me with exponents for eyes, I am singing the song that gives birth to the universe.

5 Bits: You ask for a PGP key, I give you a PGP key. You raise it to your lips and take a bite. Your eye twitches involuntarily. Across the street a father of three falls down the stairs. You swallow and look down at the PGP key in your hands. There are children at the top of the stairs. A zero shifts uneasily under the one. The children are crying now.  I give you a PGP key.  You are on your knees. You plead with me to go across the street. I hear only children's laughter. I give you a PGP key. You are screaming as you fall down the stairs. I am your child. You cannot see anything. You factor the PGP key. The concrete rushes up to meet you.  You awake with a start in your own bed. Your eye twitches involuntarily. I give you a PGP key. As you kill me, I do not make a sound. I give you a PGP key.

6 Bits: You ask me for a PGP key. My attempt to reciprocate is cut brutally short as my body experiences a sudden lack of electrons. Across a variety of hidden dimensions you are dismayed. John Lennon hands me an apple, but it slips through my fingers. I am reborn as an ocelot. You disapprove. A crack echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as cosmological background noise shifts from randomness to a perfect A Flat. Children everywhere stop what they are doing and hum along in perfect pitch with the background radiation. Birds fall from the sky as the sun engulfs the earth. You hesitate momentarily before allowing yourself to assume the locus of all knowledge. Entropy crumbles as you peruse the information contained within the universe. A small library in Phoenix ceases to exist. You stumble under the weight of everythingness, Your mouth opens up to cry out, and collapses around your body before blinking you out of the spatial plane. You exist only within the fourth dimension. The fountainhead of all knowledge rolls along the ground and collides with a small dog. My head tastes sideways as spacetime is reestablished, you blink back into the corporeal world disoriented, only for me to hand you a PGP key as my body collapses under the strain of reconstitution. The universe has reasserted itself. A particular small dog eats primes for the rest of its natural life. You die in a freak accident moments later, and your soul works at the returns desk for the Phoenix library. You disapprove. Your disapproval sends ripples through the inter-dimensional void between life and death. A small child begins to cry as he walks toward the stairway where his father stands. You look at the child and realize that he is you, and you are me.

In an instant the universe makes sense. You open the note in your hand it says,

Please, encrypt your address.

There's a weird disconnect here. Honestly, you write too intelligently to be someone who didn't encrypt their address.

Come to think of it, I've never seen your key, which begs the question, why do you hide it?

You should at least create a "public" key separate from the one you use to make purchases, which you distribute on the forum. Imagine SR goes down one day. Maybe we can find each other and reconvene somewhere else, but the only way we can prove our identity is through our keys.

Those coins can't be linked to a purchase; only the SR database can link your purchase back to you -- those coins hit a bitcoin address and bounced right off to another one (SR tumbler).

2) IF the SR server is compromised, then they already have the bitcoin info and buyer information, now they can link it directly to purchases.

Worst case scenario, assuming this were to ever happen, what exactly do they gain? I assume they would be able to trail your coins to your SR wallet. Would they be able to see what you purchased, or would they simply see you transferred coins to SR? I'm under the impression that once coins are at SR, they're juggled around so that it's theoretically impossible to see which coins were used to purchase what. Even if they were to see that you purchased illegal substances, addresses are encrypted via PGP, so they wouldn't be able to pin them to a specific address unless someone messed up by saving the order information somewhere along the way.

Long story short: From what I gather, they would only be able to see that you transferred coins to SR, not what you purchased. Correct me if I'm wrong.

That's correct. However, there are two theoretical attacks.

1) Once they have identified you as a person transferring coins to SR, they could blacklist your address and watch for packages coming to it. Of course, this assumes you used an address linked to your identity. Some people are too smart/cautious to do that, but tons of SR buyers use their home addresses, so it makes the attack worthwhile as a cheap fishing expedition. LE is guaranteed to bust some people.

2) IF the SR server is compromised, then they already have the bitcoin info and buyer information, now they can link it directly to purchases.

@dogcowchair

gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 7D58F0B8
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available


Whose key did you use to encrypt that? It's not mine, Nightcrawler's, or Pubb's. We post the most here.

Again, grab my key from the link in my signature and encrypt your message with that.