The site is live, thank you to the dev team for a very late night of debugging. We are waiting on a backup to restore. Site will be launched as soon as the servers are ready for it. I estimate one hour out, 23:59 UTC roughly. We are delaying the launch for three hours while we investigate the forum PGP issue, official launch time is now 23:00 UTC. Silk Road will rise again at 20:00 UTC on Feb 18, 2014. We will relaunch the marketplace earlier in the day with transactions disabled, and enable full functionality at 20:00 UTC. We are paying very close attention to detail, not rushing anything. Your patience is appreciated during these dark times. To many among you facilitating unity: your words are pivotal in this movement's historic success. We are deeply grateful for you. I know this to be a fact. You will undoubtedly question how I know this. I wish I could tell you without damaging a crucial layer of our operational security. I would rather you call me the thief than accuse my innocent staff of wrongdoing. I will defend them with my life. Conspiracy theories only distract from narco93's investigation. If you want to throw fuel into a lynch mob throw it into narco's lynch mob. Don't start a new riot on zero evidence, and don't post evidence publicly without consulting staff. There are many angry people here, and everyone has the potential to cause real harm to innocents. Do the community a favor and consult the people who see the big picture: staff. Posting publicly will either cause an innocent to get hurt, or give a guilty suspect advance warning of what information we have. Give us a chance to consider the evidence's security implications for the entire community, rather than recklessly releasing potentially damning information into LE's hands. Do not forget that we are all suspects in LE's eyes. If we find this attacker by unintentionally releasing valuable information to LE, we have all failed. There is a worrying pro-doxxing culture developing here. We have a zero tolerance policy for this. Posts will be edited, users will be banned. This community will NOT be known for violence. Doxxing only causes harm. If you are in the rare position of holding personal details about anyone involved with SR1 or SR2, releasing it will only cause loss of innocent life and unspeakable collateral damage to the community. If you hired a hitman against me, you're brilliant. Hire more, it's in the community's best interest. It is better for me to be murdered by you than to be captured by our oppressive governments. Keep me sharp. Give me incentives to maintain my OPSEC. He has not responded to any personal messages for days, so I am in the uncomfortable position of publicly condemning someone I respect. I will reiterate that no current or former staff, including DPR2, were in any way involved with this attack. All evidence points otherwise. Any allegations as to who uses the DPR account are off-point and do not serve to unite or protect this community. We arein a difficult position. One of our hardest decisions last week was to release the BTC addresses involved with the attack. This was a compromise for anonymity, but we were backed into a corner. I do not believe the community would even remotely trust us today had we not offered this transparency. I regret the compromise of our collective blockchain anonymity, and encourage you to proactively mix all coins received from Silk Road. It would be much easier for me if I could release all evidence I receive. It would allow my true dedication to be obvious, and for everyone to collaborate on capturing this attacker. I wish I could release why I know for a fact that it is physically impossible for any current or former staff member to have held insider information and enabled this attack. Transparency would make my life way easier, but make all of our lives much more dangerous. I keep tight lips for a reason, and wish my lips could stay even tighter. Do not doxx. Do not guess identities. This is not like trolling on the clearnet. Reckless theories can cause innocent deaths. Your game may seem fun, but you harm innocents and distract from our real investigation. To those of you who have been tirelessly helping the investigation, thank you. Your input is still valued. If you have any information about narco93, continue to send it directly to me. Smoother seas are ahead. Silk Road rises again today.