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I had at least 50 three number captchas in a row even while changing TOR identities and refreshing constantly.
I placed an order with a scammer (import connection), but stayed in escrot. I am now in resolution and the vendor is no longer around. How long should this take and should I have a problem getting my money back?
Working across the pond - but certainly seeing more 3 digit numeral capchas
that makes me nervous, so I hit refresh until a normal captcha comes up.
I can't search the forums, "Your last search was less than 5 seconds ago. Please try again later."
Just me or everyone?
All they have to do is to make it illegal for any shop to accept bitcoins and then to go after the bitcoin exchanges.
You can have a billion bitcoins but if you cant convert them into anything you can spend they become worthless.
Look at whats happening in the world right now. Countries are all getting together and making deals to remove peoples financial privacy. Even Switzerland will hand over your details if anyone asks for them. Where there is money, there is always a way. If the governments of the world decide that bitcoins are somehow reducing their taxation revenue they will end them. Its all very well saying it cant happen but people dont put large sums of money into illegal currencies because they have too much to loose. Saying it could never happen is a little naive. Who would have thought you could ring up a Swiss bank and ask for someones entire financial records? A few years ago that would have been unimaginable now its a reality. Where there is money there is a way!
In a long enough timeline, this is purely relative to whether or not BTC survives, which overall market confidence lately has been that it will.
Market confidence is high but there is some talk and it is only talk of governments actually outlawing bitcoins.
Right now Bitcoins are legal but a chance in law would obviously change that.
What they are saying is that right now governments arent really all that interested in bitcoins largely due to the fact that almost no one accepts them as currency, but if shops started using bitcoins more and more then governments would take more and more of an interest and there is a possibility that they might just outlaw them. Time will tell.
Whether "outlawed" or not, government cannot kill Bitcoin so this is essentially a non-issue. They outlawed drugs as well - which are far easier to find and trace than Bitcoin when Bitcoin is used correctly - and that hasn't worked out too well for them.They did the same with file-sharing of copyrighted files; Bitcoin can be better compared to that as it is a P2P currency that employs similar protocols. And they have completely failed in their attempts to regulate what we can and cannot access online.
In short, if the government were to make Bitcoin illegal tomorrow it would likely rise in value as the market supply reduces (all the exchanges are closed) while the demand remains. If they're trying to attack Bitcoin then that would be a terrible, terrible way for them to go about it!
Libertas
If the government say that they will
a) throw you in jail
b) confiscate your funds
a lot of people will not use it.
hmm odd i dont think it's a minimum thing -- without getting into specifics, this final amount should be more than that one auto withdraw amount times 3.. it's not like the sale was only 1.01 BTC or anything.. fair bit more than that..
gonna hit up vendor support..
-mb
In a long enough timeline, this is purely relative to whether or not BTC survives, which overall market confidence lately has been that it will.
Market confidence is high but there is some talk and it is only talk of governments actually outlawing bitcoins.
Right now Bitcoins are legal but a chance in law would obviously change that.
What they are saying is that right now governments arent really all that interested in bitcoins largely due to the fact that almost no one accepts them as currency, but if shops started using bitcoins more and more then governments would take more and more of an interest and there is a possibility that they might just outlaw them. Time will tell.
They did the same with file-sharing of copyrighted files; Bitcoin can be better compared to that as it is a P2P currency that employs similar protocols. And they have completely failed in their attempts to regulate what we can and cannot access online.
Agree 100% Libertas
The most secure way I've found to manage my bitcoins is using Bitcoin Armory
It allows for 'offline wallets'. Basically, you approve and sign transactions on an offline machine that is never connected to the internet (or a dual booted one with an encrypted drive). The online computer monitors the blockchain and pushes through signed transactions.
Sounds harder than it is and worth piece of mind!
yes in fact it was - which i thought to be a bit odd..
what does this mean?
-mb
Do you mind naming him? I think the community deserve to know when someone breaks the rules, transparency is good for all.
Thanks for reporting this
I guess maybe it's for the best, as there's apparently no good reason for him to request a deal like that.
The vendor is FrankMatthews, and the full conversation is available in messages on SR. I could provide a screenshot if necessary.
hi hi
i was under the impression from the seller's guide in the wiki that the 3 auto withdraw transactions would happen relatively close to one another in time..
i double checked all 3 BTC addresses listed are correct in my vendor settings page; no typos. but it's been a few hours since an order finalized and only one of the addresses received partial payment (which happened promptly when it got finalized).. the other two dont show the expected unconfirmed transactions either.. neither does the "backup" address.. the balance from that sale is sitting in my SR wallet as available...
shouldnt it have been swept to the auto withdraw by now? am i being too impatient?
is this normal?
thanks for your help..
-mb
Hi, I am new to silkroad and am confused. I sent bitcoins from my wallet @ blockchain to the address provided to me by SR after clicking "click here to make a deposit". After approximately 30 mins i still do not see the coins in my SR account, however, they have been removed from my wallet and blockchain shows the transaction with "3 confirmations". What is going on? Do i just need to wait longer? I'm worried i just threw away money.
Why isn't my deposit showing up in my account?
It can take up to 6 hours for a deposit to be confirmed on the blockchain, processed, and credited to your Silk Road account. If your deposit still hasn't shown up, first check that it is showing up on the blockchain by searching for your deposit address on a site like blockchain.info. If your transfer doesn't appear here, then it was never sent and you need to find out why from the person or organization who initiated the transfer. If the transfer does appear, then there could be a problem on our end and you should contact us.
