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UPDATE (1753 UTC): We are all caught up on withdrawals.  If you have any outstanding withdrawals that are over 6 hours old, there could be an issue.  Read the FAQ on the wiki and follow the directions for dealing with a missing withdrawal.

UPDATE (0100 UTC): Ok, everything is on track to get caught up now.  Right now our best estimate is 24 more hours until the last severely delayed withdrawal goes through.  All others are going through normally, with the current delay still around 4 hours, but shrinking.  I'll keep you updated here on that 24 hour estimate.

UPDATE (2252 UTC): Finally got to the bottom of the situation.  Current withdrawals are flowing again, and are about 4 hours behind right now.  The withdrawals that were severely delayed are almost 2 days old at this point and my best estimates doesn't have them complete for several more days at the current rate.  That is too long to wait, so we are working on a solution to roll these back and redo them.

UPDATE (2020 UTC):  There are a few hundred withdrawals taking up to 36 hours to get into the blockchain that are holding up the show.  We are going to section these off to deal with them separately and get current withdrawals flowing again. 

Just a heads up that we are aware that some withdrawals are delayed right now.  They are in the system and accounted for and we will get them out asap.  I'll let you know here when we are all caught up so if your withdrawal is still missing you can follow up on it.

OP updated

running into some technical difficulties are are having to transfer a lot of data over tor and it's taking a while.  Sorry for the delays.

OP updated

I've been informed that some vendors are attempting to form a cartel.  In such an arrangement, they would agree on what price to charge so they can charge more than they would be able to if they were competing with each other.  Another vendor has re-posted their plans in order to warn the community at large of the plan.  There are two things I'd like to say about this:

1) Up until now, it has been our policy to delete any reposts from the vendor roundtable in order to preserve the privacy of that forum.  Because it is nearly impossible to prevent the reposter from creating new accounts and reposting over and over, we will no longer attempt to control this behavior.  This will just be a limitation of the vendor roundtable and vendors should act accordingly.

2) Cartels are nearly impossible to maintain without the use of violence, especially in an environment as competitive as Silk Road.  There is also nothing morally wrong with them.  If a cartel were to form, I would not attempt to break it up unless its members were breaking other rules.  If you want an explanation for why cartels are nearly impossible to maintain in a free market environment, please read "Man, Economy and State" chapter 10, part 2, section D.

We've had some withdrawal issues over the past few days.  Right now, they are delayed up to 5 hours.  We've been working to expand our capacity to process withdrawals without compromising their anonymity or the security/anonymity of our servers.  I believe we have a good solution that will help us get up to speed, but it will delay things a little more as we deploy.  I'll keep you all posted via this thread.

If any of your withdrawals have gone missing in the past few days, please just message support with the amount and time of the withdrawal and the address.

-DPR

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Thanks for the heads up.  This has been fixed now.