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there are tons of ways to turn bitcoin into cash. Mostly, the cost depends on how anonymous you want to be. If you dont care about anonymity, then transfer your money on mt. gox to your dwolla account then to your bank account, this only costs .25 cents plus mt. gox fees which are about 1/2 percent.

Or go thru Liberty reserve and you could be spending between 7-10 percent. But, you have many more options and have the opportunity of being somewhat anonymous.

Im sure the SR admins have thought this thru. Again, the way i see it is that everyone coins are put into one huge account. Im assuming that SR also is a bitcoin miner. These coins are added to the "pool" when sr transfers money out to you btc address, it creates dummy addresses as well. While leo would have to be very motivated to find a btc that came from SR. then they would have to prove to a jury (i can just see them trying to explain what a bitcoin is to a 70 year old grandmother) that bitcoin was used for illicit purposes and prove that it was you. Thats a lot of work.

On top of that, if you move your bitcoins from SR to a couple of computer wallets thru tor over a couple days in random amounts. this just makes things that much harder to trace. (not too many people want to go thru this trouble, but if your that worried about it, I would)...

While the bitcoin is not 100 percent anonymous, its pretty damn close if you do it right...Its the closes thing we have to anonymity so far.

Basically, SR is adding extra layers of protection. Just thinking about it makes me have a headache, lol..

All you have to do is get that guy in prison and those guys will do the dirty work for you.....

As a vendor, I've been scammed a few times.  I can do one of two things. 1. argue with them and wait til sr steps in and my rating gets a hit or 2. fulfill their demands. i have been fulfilling their demands up til now. If I am 100 percent confident that they received their full order, I wont be held hostage any more. Im very careful on how i order. I have made mistakes, and the one or two times that I really did make the mistake, I was able to verify it.

But most of the scamming is because its done out of escrow. Granted, i have seen good vendors turn scammers, but they are a very small minority. Most good vendors dont want their name ruined. but the only way i can see getting scammed in escrow is a dirty vendor sending an empty package or not sending it at all. Doesnt make much sense to me as they wont last long. But, I think we need some sort of feeback or something when it comes to buyers. Its nice to have the info that vendors know have regarding a buyer. But we still need a feedback system.

Soon, I will be limiting orders to new buyers. the stuff that I sale is very expensive for me to purchase, so its not easy to replace an order, thats why I always do DCN and take very good care in my packaging... Still, though, overall, the scammers are a very small percentage...

I deleted his thread the second i saw it. I think he even mentioned that in his article. Yes, if guns are going to bring more heat, then I say get rid of them. Id rather have my doc than guns... Im thinking that SR is down because they are going to pull the guns and make some changes, if it were because of traffic, some of us would eventually get in, i havent heard one person making it in...

When vendors or buyers speak to the media, all it does is give them more words to put in the article. This just pisses me off..

My bet that this will be overturned... Or you could just say, " Try this code" oh, that didnt work? try this.. My memory is for shit and cant remember it, lol. IF you cant remember it you cant remember it...But, it wont get far, my money is on it getting overturned somewhere in the court system..

Be patient my friends.. This is another item that will be seen on sr hopefully within a month.. Cross fingers...