For those reading this not wanting to read all of this post, atleast consider reading my last part which begins with "This got me thinking of different ways of delivering a functional tutorial of some sort to a potential user beyond an USB memory stick." :)I came back to this thread with some comments and additional thoughts as I was surprised with how many buyers didn't bother with encrypting their addresses. First the comments:QuoteYOU answered the second part yourself..I will answer the first part....Of course someone could sell you a buyer account with say 100 btc in it. It would be the EXACT same thing as selling you btc. But the vendor would have the information such as the password and the pin. You could always change both right away and bam..it is your account.This is technically correct for any active user here, but for an end user with no experience with neither Silk Road or Bitcoin it's not.QuoteI think your LE is a lot off and comes from a paranoid sense. Better safe than sorry. :DQuoteAnd bottom line is though people are lazy...there still is no need for this. And there really is not need for the USB memory stick. I get what you are saying buy it...and I agree that someone would be willing to pay for this information to all be there...just the convenience of it....but as a vendor...this would all take way too much time and so not be worth it..I would agree entirely if the purpose would be to sell on Silk Road only, no profit margins and no point really as if anyone can actually watch the listing they've already done 80% of the work. If the buyer has any friends they would tell them in person or just keep it secret, although there might be a small market for a complete video tutorial for registering, concepts etc. on Silk Road itself, Bitcoin and so on.QuoteAlso that would be the problem...as soon as you had an account...and say you loaded it with any amount the customer wanted....after that what are you really offering them? An account that takes 1 min to open and some btc in it? Newbies are cheap as fuck as it is...most want like 1 btc...so again... I think some would buy.....but nothing that would be worth any real vendors time.With an intermediary this would be a fairly stable and secure way of money laundering into cash, in my opinion there's a very large section of people who would be willing to pay for having 70-80% of the work completed for them in advance without them having to learn any new concepts they aren't familiar with. The amount of people not bothering to encrypt their addresses when ordering act as circumstancial evidence in this case. :PQuoteDo buyers even use a stick?This got me thinking of different ways of delivering a functional tutorial of some sort to a potential user beyond an USB memory stick. I came up with the following (all these examples assume an intermediary if nothing else specified) :* Normal mail, with for example a pamphlet with all the information/images required.* E-mail - simply send all the details directly to an e-mail (although obviously extremely unsafe unless a password of some kind is used).* Website which has all the information on it, including possibly an interactive tutorial/guide on how it would look like.* SMS including all information needed (would assume a preloaded account).* DVD, a short movie which details how Silk Road and Bitcoin works, or alternatively perhaps in addition how to exactly deal with the intermediary in question in regards to loading the account further and so on.* Podcasts/MP3/Audio, something which guides the user through all steps through sound only - not everyone can be bothered to watch a movie or might for example have visual problems.* Computer/Mobile, a fully functional computer or mobile which is ready to be used on Silk Road instantly (a good choice for this would be for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi). This option would allow additional security measures ( plausible deniability ) along with functions like for example automatic login into Silk Road. This option will get more and more viable as computers/mobiles get smaller and cheaper.A small note about the last alternative of a computer/mobile which many might not know that the microchip on any credit card is technically a computer in itself, it's not a very fast one but it has the capacity to encrypt/decrypt information with the intention of giving proof to the bank that the account is in fact the correct one as the credit card holds the right key to decrypt the data sent by the bank about that specific bank account. There is nothing technically stopping a solution of buying a prepaid Silk Road card which could just be swiped at a terminal and then instantly get an order processed with address and everything after picking a product (this is obviously not going to happen any time soon due to legal/security reasons, but still there's nothing stopping the concept itself in a perfect world 8)).