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so stupid. so annoying. shuttered a 700+ account and now i am locked ina box of hell.

free forums open discussion my ass!


yeah still dont feel better time is money and this is costing me money getting to 50 OPEN IT UP and let us out the fcu&in box!


OH yeah have to type that dman code in the BOX!!!! life is about living outside the box mods get on teh stick!!!!

there was a mod.. LIMITLESS...


TAKE THE HINT!

i dont think i would do that well in jail either....

LOL!

This is indeed a free forum that allows open discussion. Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of this community. However, there is no use in having a forum that we cannot conduct open discussion in as a result of mass spamming, thus a 50 post restriction was put in place to ensure that the main boards remain as spam-free as possible.

The captcha was put in place to defeat bots employed by the spammers to plaster spam in as many places as they could with no effort.

Once you reach 50 posts you will be free to engage in any discussion that interests you - as freely and openly as you wish - in any forum.

Libertas

I was looking more at my transaction and it says it just went today at 2:32pm, 12 minutes to confirm. I'm assuming that it was able to get through to SR till recently, so hopefully soon it will show up. Unfortunately, the minute I tried to leave the initial SR login page it timed out and I can see nothing again. I've only been on SR for about a month. Have received a few shipments, but I can't afford for money to disappear. Or spend days and hours trying to get in either. After this order if the issues are not resolved, as much as I'd hate to, I may have to move go elsewhere : (

Hi Minny,

Which Bitcoin client are you using? If it is a desktop based client then the reason that the transaction was only sent today is because the client has to sync with either the full blockchain (in the case of the bitcoin-qt client) or a partial blockchain (in the case of MultiBit and a few others). Your client only caught up with the block that your transaction was included in at 2:32pm.

It can take up to 24 hours for your Bitcoin to reach your Silk Road account, however it normally takes a lot less time than that.
If your BTC is not in your Silk Road account within 24 hours, feel free to send a message to SR Support on the main site when it is back up with the details of your transfer so as they can figure out where it is and manually credit it to you.

Silk Road is currently under a DDOS attack, and this kind of limited access is unprecedented in Silk Road's history. It has been online since February 2011 with minimal down-time (~3%), meaning in the 26 months it has been in existence it has been up for approximately 25.22 of those.

Dread Pirate Roberts will continue to persevere in his/her efforts to get the site back up, and has a contingency plan in place which you can read more about here:

http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=155554.0

Libertas

Alright well sounds like I'll just have to be patient! Thanks again for the help!

You're very welcome.

I'll keep this thread open until you can confirm that the issue is resolved, so if you wouldn't mind posting back here to confirm all is well I'd appreciate it.

Libertas

Libertas,

Thanks for the timely reply and the reassurance. I guess the combination of seeing my coins leave my account and not being able to get onto SR had me worried haha. I was aware of SR's tumbling feature but I guess I'd never actually seen it in action. If I do happen to reach the 24-hour mark without receiving my funds and am still unable to get onto the main site to get in contact with Support; what would you suggest I do?

No problem, I'm glad I could help put you at ease. I fully understand your worry though, and would feel the same way myself if I was unaware of how the system works.

If you can't get on to the main site you won't know if you've received your funds or not but when it does come up and the funds have still not arrived you will be able to message SR Support by clicking the link in the bottom right hand corner of the page. Other than that, there's unfortunately not much more you can do at this time.

Libertas

Remember when you could buy assassinations on darkweb, if you had the money there were people/groups that supposedly offered this.

Well, SR would never have that, not that that affects me (i would never need one nor could i afford a pro-job) but Swatting is the new 'hit'
instead of whacking people, a professional vendor that knew how to SWAT could offer his services on here.

[For those of you that don't know: Swatting-calling the police and threatening a bomb threat against a school or POTUS etc. but making sure that the caller ID is that of someone who's house you want raided by S.W.A.T. so when LEO and the Feds trace the number of the threat it is not yours, but the number that corresponds to the house you want raided]

DPR and the staff could monitor this to see that it is not being abused and the price of a professional Swat, i am assuming would deter most teens from simply messing around and having fun.

But if any of you reading this knows how to swat you could charge BTC for phone numbers or addresses so all the buyer would have to do is provide you with the number or address of their intended victim. Approx 24-48 hours after the transaction is finalized a 12 man bulletproof SWAT team kicks in the door of your target and Fucks their day up.

This could be an extremely useful tool. In fact i would consider it a nuclear weapon for us Libertarians to use against the oppressive government. Maybe id 'swat' a dirty politician or corrupt official and after a series of coordinated Swat attacks by us we'd have the government by the balls...using their own soldiers(LE) against themselves.

Anyone who knows how to swat 100% perfectly every time could make some serious BTC.

Are you serious?! How on earth would DPR or Silk Road staff be able to monitor this to ensure it's not being abused?! Not only that, but why should they have to?!

This would be an entirely destructive 'service' that could lead to people getting seriously hurt or even killed if a SWAT team breaks down their door and the occupant is armed thinking it's a burglary. It would fall under Silk Road's restricted items list in any event as its purpose is to harm another person, so would not be allowed on the marketplace.

An outrageous suggestion in any event.

Libertas

Quote from: Libertas on May 04, 2013, 03:44 pm

Silk Road is an onion site that boasts 97%+ uptime; I think the suggestion to take Silk Road down and rebuild it is, at this point, very premature.

Libertas

I realize "uptime" does not equate to being able to log on. But I would like to see those stats for myself, especially over the last 30 days. This is what I was referring to, as quoted from DPR -
"UPDATE (04/30/2013 0035 UTC): We have come a long way in the battle, but still do not have the upper hand.  It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the tor software or even the tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under. "

The 97%+ is an estimate of the up-time between February 2011 when the site went live and today, May 4th, 2013. Silk Road has been online for 26 months. The 97% estimate translates to online time of 25.22 months, which I'm sure you'll agree is fairly accurate given the fact that the site has up a lot more than it has been down over the past 30 days, and previous outages lasted no longer than a couple of days in total.

I am unaware of a site that has measured Silk Road's up-time from the time it went live, but if you can find one I believe it would reflect my 97% estimation.

Referring to DPR's statement above, if it is indeed something that cannot be resolved unless the Tor software or the Tor network itself are restructured then there's not much that taking SR down and rebuilding will accomplish.

Libertas

Mt. Gox can ask you to verify your account for absolutely no reason at any time; this is stated in the terms & conditions which you should have read prior to trading on their exchange.

On March 13h, 2013, Mt.Gox revised their BTC withdrawal limits:

Due to recent events in the Bitcoin community and the spike in the Bitcoin price we at Mt.Gox are putting in place a new daily withdrawal limits. While our daily limits for traditional currencies will remain unchanged with a maximum of $1,000 USD per 24 hrs, the Bitcoin daily withdrawal limit will change from 200BTC to 100BTC per 24 hrs for unverified customers. Verified and Trusted customers that already have their daily/monthly limit raised will not be affected with this change, however, Verified and Trusted customers that hare not yet asked for their withdrawal limit to be raised will then be offered the following limits :

Verified Status (Level 1) Maximum monthly withdrawal of 50,000 USD (or equivalent) capped to a maximum of 10,000 USD per 24 hrs and a 1,000 BTC withdrawal per 24 hrs without any monthly limit.

Trusted Status (Level 2) Maximum monthly withdrawal of 500,000 USD (or equivalent) capped to a maximum of 100,000 USD per 24 hrs and a 10,000 BTC withdrawal per 24hrs without any monthly limit. Of course we will re-evaluate these limits and adapt and revert them to their past value if necessary and if the value of Bitcoin against USD decreases.

As mentioned above, you can normally withdraw up to $1,000 USD per day without verification, but can only withdraw 100BTC per day (so be careful if the value falls below $100.00 USD per BTC), and accessing Mt.Gox through Tor will get your account flagged for verification.

Libertas