Quote from: Twelve_Pickles on September 27, 2012, 12:04 amAlthough i agree with your ideology pine, constructive advice concerning BTC purchases for the community as opposed to an agorist rant considering the future of cyber-cryptography & security would have been more useful.glad to see your enjoying your modafinil.What a reason to downvote somebody! Where do you think you are? Reddit? I've already given my advice, extremely practical advice on this dozens of times!localbitcoin, bitcoin-otc and tradebitcoin are just 3 of the services which offer the functions I describe.In fact, they are not remarkably more expensive than the exchanges in my view, with far higher anonymity.-- Procedures:- Use Tor when communicating to an OTCV (over the counter vendor).- Use many nyms, one per transaction.- Use PGP if communicating directly.- Agree on these beforehand so everything is transparent and there can be no misunderstandings. -> Price -> QuantityMeet in public places during the day. e.g. cafe and don't bring your bitcoin wallet with the rest of your B$, only have wallet for the amount you're obtaining. Keep the money, the exact amount in a brochure or napkin.For more security, don't bring your laptop or usual phone, but have a special (cheap) "bitcoin phone". Then your friend can text you when the bitcoins have been received, and your expensive gadget is in no danger of being smashed. I think you may be even able to get your wallet software to send you a message, but that's a feature for another day's work for some enterprising programmer.When you think about it, there is nothing the LE agents can do if they crash the party. They have no record of the transaction electronically because of PGP and Tor. They just have two guys, one of which has a mobile and some cash, and another with the same. Shockingly damning stuff I know. They would have to make cash itself illegal to halt this.Edit: The person who receives the bitcoins should leave first as a matter of etiquette.