Hi michael58, I believe you may be confused between "PIN" and "passphrase/password". Your PIN is only required when you are making transactions on Silk Road. Your passphrase, along with your username, is required when you are logging in to Silk Road. Your forum account does not have a PIN, it has a passphrase, and that is something that only you know. Your forum account and your Silk Road account were set up separately so it is entirely possible that you used a different passphrase for both. Libertas