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*update- December 10, 2013, 02:32:05 am* - http://silkroad5v7dywlc.onion/index.php?topic=7450.msg116152#msg116152


Right now, I like many of you can feel the shock of recent events which are now compounding together. As Sheep has closed and Black Market Reloaded have announced they are also soon to shut down this has put strain on our team unlike anything we've seen before. Tor was not designed to handle services of this size and so this is a network problem, not a Silk Road problem.

We are working on a way around this right now but unfortunately the only way to obtain a realistic impression of how successful our changes will be is to place them into a live testing environment which is something we never usually do, but it is required in these circumstances. Over the next 24 hours there will be a lot of up and down with the market and I can assure you we are working on it so please be patient, these are challenging times for our community and requires us to reach into the unknown of this technology as we scale.

I will make another announcement when we have more news to share.

The TorMarket URL has been filtered out due to it being spammed on the forums recently, this will remain indefinitely.

To allow staff to catch up with our work we have decided to close any new vendor applications. This measure will be in place for approximately 1 week and should give us time to push the major update we have been working on recently to get this place into working order.

Those currently in the process of being upgraded or paying their bond, you can continue as instructed in mail and old vendors can still verify with Sarge for the time being.

UPDATE: The delay has been extended for several more days to allow us to handle the Sheep/BMR influx. We will be introducing an automated system soon and the bond will be increasing too to an amount not yet decided at this time.

UPDATE:Sarge is taking manual verifications. Details here - http://silkroad5v7dywlc.onion/index.php?topic=9108.0

Purchases and withdrawals are now enabled again. Thank you for your patience on the matter.

I will be temporarily re-enabling withdrawals for those who need them and during that time of approximately 6 hours we will be disabling purchases. Note we cannot continue to fix this whilst the withdrawals are processing - but tinfoil is getting expensive as supplies across the world dry up.

We are in the process of fixing this, some unusual errors are occurring but we are working on it and it is likely we will peg the new rate to Bitstamp. Sales are actually very healthy, we've had almost 2,000 finalized sales already and many many more in transit.

Let me know when they accept bitcoin somewhere for it.

Unencrypted version:

John xxx xxxx. You fucked up mental head case.

Here is how this will go down. You know I will shout your name from the roof tops and draw attention from every LE group
in the US.

First, AND QUICKLY (you know how much I hate waiting) you will transfer $200,000 YES TWO-HUNDRED-THOUSAND dollars
in bitcoins to 1HD3DT7jmXb5gwnGN7FT5hofWdJ1oNYBAV

Second, you will take whatever money you have left, and your FREEDOM, and leave the deep web.

You listen to me, and listen good. You are a piece of shit. You are a scammer. You are not a good person. I feel no regret for you
I will happily send your ass to prison, because you are the type of shit hole that deserves prison. You have no guarantees I won't
keep this deal, but you have a guarantee I will make sure your ass is known to LE every place.

You are a black mark on the underground movement. Fuck you.

Now send my god damn money, or the art of ruin will start. Faggot.