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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: i3lazd on March 15, 2012, 12:52 am

Title: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: i3lazd on March 15, 2012, 12:52 am
I heard about SR through a close friend.

How did you guys get here?
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: i3lazd on March 15, 2012, 12:53 am
also please give me some positive +

People are giving me - because I am high and sometimes say what is on my mind haha... But yea haters haha
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Horizons on March 15, 2012, 12:56 am
A little birdy told me.

And don't beg for karma, this isn't MySpace.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: risky2 on March 15, 2012, 08:25 am
I got here by surfing thru some meme listing websites, don't want to say which cause maybe LEO would try to shut it down. Something about the Ebay of drugs, do some googling, bang!, and wow its for real alright. The perfect melding of illegal drugs and the internet as we all know it.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: sickre1 on March 15, 2012, 08:27 am
gawker
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Raven1318 on March 15, 2012, 10:07 am
I was looking for sites that sell RCs
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: KarmaComa on March 15, 2012, 10:53 am
gawker
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: boringflooring on March 15, 2012, 05:33 pm
Rolling Stone
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Mrambulancedriver on March 15, 2012, 05:47 pm
It was vaguely referred to another another forum, so i decided to start looking hard on the interwebz and i finally found it! It took me a bit cus i'm not tech savvy at all, but iv definitely been learning along the way
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: teeth90 on March 15, 2012, 06:04 pm
pastebay lol
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: goatHerd on March 16, 2012, 01:28 am
SR came to me in a dream. In this dream there was no war, no sickness and no hunger. And you could get drugs sent to your house for a reasonable fee. I'm glad one of the elements of that dream bled into reality. Now I'm sure the others can too. ;D

~from the meadow, goatHerd
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: ZipperMcGee on March 16, 2012, 02:17 pm
Reddit
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on March 16, 2012, 02:22 pm
..my grandad and i were on the porch and he asked if i wanted to shoot up i said yeah why not, so we placed the order through Silk Road.

Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: diskoking23 on March 16, 2012, 03:18 pm
News report... Did a bit of my own digging around... Love it here! :)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: JimPooley on March 16, 2012, 03:32 pm
The transperambulation of Pseudo-Cosmic Anti-Matter!

Piece of piss!
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: indignado on March 16, 2012, 04:02 pm
Got told about it by a friend, Googled it and found the Gawker article. Absolutely gobsmacked.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: happyhippy on March 16, 2012, 08:30 pm
www.b3ta.com

Its Cool AND froody
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Kandi on March 16, 2012, 08:50 pm
Did a search looking for a drug, read an article, a little more research & here I was
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: dr gonzo on March 16, 2012, 09:10 pm
..my grandad and i were on the porch and he asked if i wanted to shoot up i said yeah why not, so we placed the order through Silk Road.
lololololo ;D
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Trekz on March 16, 2012, 09:11 pm
Was reading drug-forum and some guy was asking some question about a drug that he ordered online. So i was like, "What, you can order drugs online?". Went to google, read few articles and here i am!
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: technofarm on March 17, 2012, 02:47 am
I don't know you, but thats hilarious if you're joking. 



if you're not......

..my grandad and i were on the porch and he asked if i wanted to shoot up i said yeah why not, so we placed the order through Silk Road.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: diskoking23 on March 17, 2012, 08:27 am
Obvious troll technofarm.... ;)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: poopiepants on March 31, 2012, 12:42 am
gawker
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: kingprawn on March 31, 2012, 11:29 pm
Initially i was furious at the gawker article - but it did bring in a nice range of sellers - but i reckon that would have happened anyway.
I remember that fucking dickhead saying he wanted to publish the article on his blog and loads of ppl here told him not to fucking do it - but he did.
Then places like reddit - which is just over-run by morons who think they're particularly intelligent becos theyr anal about spelling on the internet - got hold of it and an influx of idiots.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: ifhvmc024 on April 01, 2012, 01:43 am
Grasscity forums
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Hawker on April 01, 2012, 01:49 am
Accidentally... I was looking at online pharmacies reviews and it showed up.

I can't believe it took me this long to even hear about it much less find it, gotta say though... awesome!  simply awesome.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: youngzeld on April 01, 2012, 04:02 pm
I was listening to the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and Redban mentioned it. I was on it like white on rice, and obviously, was not let down.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: aliasx on April 01, 2012, 04:13 pm
I was discussing DMT with my friend when he said "I should be getting my 5-MeO soon from SR" and I said "...SR?"

And viola.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: hitch22 on April 01, 2012, 05:15 pm
The Rolling Stone article back in November of last year... But, it took my wife's initiative to actually get here.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: dkmonk on April 01, 2012, 05:19 pm
I think the shroomery.org
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: LucyDiamond on April 01, 2012, 05:23 pm
I was looking through The (censored) Hidden Wiki and saw a section called "drugs". I sort of knew there were drugs online but didn't realize the awesomeness until I got here.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: squidShepherd on April 02, 2012, 07:17 am
A long time ago, late one evening, a sallow faced man arrived on my stoop. This man was a salesman, of sorts. When he told me this, I asked what he sold. Then, from the folds of his coat, he pulled out a book, unnoticed by me at first, far too large and conspicuous to be concealed where from it came. He then said, "Only this," and placed it on to the table, silently. I refused to buy it before he even offered a price. He bowed as he left, book in hand.
In the morning, after breakfast, I did my normal bathing. When I returned from the shower room, I went to the kitchen for a drink. I passed through the dining room, past the table where I had just consumed my eggy weggs. I poured my self some leftover coffee from breakfast and returned to the dinig room. And that's when I noticed it.
There, where I has just eaten my morning meal, on the table I just passed by without a second glance, precisely where it was laid the previous night, was that book. Larger than your average dictionary and older than the oldest bible you've ever seen. I was afraid to touch it. And I let it sit there.
That is, at least, until curiosity got the better of me, as it always does. I touched it with just two fingers, and when nothing happened, I picked it up. Then I opened with oh so much care. The first page was blank, except for a tiny "0" in the righthand corner. I turned the page. And then it was nonsense. Letters in no particular order with random spaces and punctuation. And the page number wasn't "1", like it should have been, it was some binary garbage: 1001010100 or something as equally unintelligible. I turned the page again, and it was more of the same, only the page number was in roman numerals this time. I was getting frustrated, and very, very confused.
Opening the book to a random page only made the confusion deepen. For on it was scribbles this tim. And turning back to the page that should have been "1" revealed that the nonsense page with the binary page number had been replaced by a few lines of mysterious poetry and the page number "575".

Along these lines of time
We are building a new path
Into the future

After reading this I closed the book and put ti away. For years, it stayed closed and on a shelf, far out of mind. One day recently I  was just going about my business when the thought of that book struck me. I resisted the temptation to open it again for a time, but the sway of my curiosity won out, again.
I opened it somewhere in the middle. On the left page was a tutorial and instructions on how to use TOR. The right page was utterly blank except for a single line of text at the center of the page. An onion address:
http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion
I've since put the book away in a safe and secret place. I don't know what other mysteries it holds, but I'm thankful enough for this one to call it good.

-sSh-
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: madmanan on April 04, 2012, 09:56 am
much searching and rumours. I finaly found it
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Arrov123 on April 04, 2012, 10:09 am
Joe Rogan podcast bitches!
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: nedthehead on April 05, 2012, 12:55 pm
Been reading another forum for months now, won't say the name as they don't want LE attention.  I'm a complete noob, just made my first purchase today.  Is there someplace on this forum I should introduce myself?
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: club on April 05, 2012, 02:57 pm
4chan... how embaressing
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: perky on April 05, 2012, 03:19 pm
gawker article
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Mrambulancedriver on April 05, 2012, 03:44 pm
4chan... how embaressing

Hey /b/rother, I found out about SR from 420chan, not much better.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: mouser53 on April 05, 2012, 08:53 pm
It was tangentially referenced on an SACD webpage where contributions are by bitcoin.  One of my fellow members mentioned that there was some sort of online market--from that I began a frantic search and found the Gawker . . . then I set about getting here and getting some coins . . . the rest, as they say, is history. :)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: kiddo1999 on April 05, 2012, 09:13 pm
I have this need to know everything. Somehow that led me to gawker. Love this site sooo much, but I don't tell anyone else because I also have this need to keep this kind of thing to myself.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: unknown79 on April 07, 2012, 12:32 am
A post on Reddit in /r/drugs. I think my user number was in the top 8000..On the forums, I'm within the first 1500 users. Just don't post very often  ::)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: kittydreams on April 07, 2012, 02:49 am
Through the grapevine and research.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Caparino on April 07, 2012, 04:30 am
I went looking for it after moving to a new state; my addiction led me to this place haha
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: streetdoc on April 07, 2012, 12:40 pm
I heard about SR in Rolling Stone Magazine Too! Best article I've read in years.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Kurtz on April 08, 2012, 05:00 am
4chan... how embaressing

I share your shame.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: betaraybob on April 08, 2012, 08:04 am
i was so anxious trying to find a dealer with my doa(opiates) that i was starting to check out craigslist ads. even set up a few meets but that was some sketchy shit so i went online and searched for online drugs or something to that effect and low and behold the gawker article.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: jagfug on April 09, 2012, 04:52 am
 :-[ I'm embarrassed to say it, but I was looking up Tuinal on Google and wondering whatever happened to it, and I ended up on good ol' Topix. Yes I said it!

However, after a couple of reads, I realized how F'd up Topix is, (for the umpteenth time!), but just before I closed the screen, I saw a post about SR, and the rest is history!

My first impression, was similar to my first piece of ass. Her name was Mary! 

Better than I imagined, and I knew I'd be back for more!

Great to be here!   ;D
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: DeadRa7 on April 10, 2012, 04:39 pm
/b/
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: ragefu on April 10, 2012, 05:00 pm
I can't even remember...
Is that a bad sign?
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: meh on April 10, 2012, 07:08 pm
I was looking for LSD. I was told LSD would find me.

Completely unrelated, I got interested in Bitcoin pretty early on, back when you couldn't really buy anything with them yet. Then I started searching for things to do with them, and the Silk Road popped up :) So I wasn't even looking for drugs, I guess LSD really does find you.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: StonerReakingHavoc on April 11, 2012, 06:51 am
The interwebs  ;)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: SnowCrash on April 11, 2012, 01:12 pm
Another redditor here. Ended up on SR shortly after some kids in the comments were bragging about their activity on the super secret DEEP WEB *gasp*. That was a few months ago. Forgot about it all until the other day.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Mainstreamlos on April 11, 2012, 02:50 pm
I heard on Facebook about Silk Road
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Silk-Road-Anonymous-Marketplace/215400821879509
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: flabberheist21 on April 11, 2012, 05:18 pm
i was searching for lean, checking online pharmacies in other countries but with no luck.  Somehow i ended up on the wiki page for SR and it was love at first sight (or site)...btw what is this karma thing?
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: RR on April 11, 2012, 08:39 pm
i moved areas and lost all my weed links so got mega desperate and searched "BUY ILLEGAL DRUGS ONLINE" in google and up popped a report on silkroad and i couldn't believe what my eyes where reading so i went straight to my pc and started to dig and first found the silkroad.org site and that said "your nearly there" lol

this was before a wiki page was even up about the site and i spent the next few weeks figuring out tor and pgp and finding there limits before joining,

BY MILES THE BEST SITE EVER INVENTED, I WOULDN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT IT NOW  :)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: MadResearchMonkey on April 12, 2012, 03:55 am
I heard on Facebook about Silk Road
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Silk-Road-Anonymous-Marketplace/215400821879509

For some reason SR being on facebook surprised me more than the various news articles..
It's interesting how many users were attracted by those articles though. I found out through reddit accidentally.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Dankyman on April 12, 2012, 04:32 am
I was bored out of my mind, and on 4chan (toilet of the internet), when i saw a post about tor network and silkroad. I remember i previously downloaded tor and thought it was shit. I left it alone and never used it. Then at the last part of the post it mentioned silk road. So i spent a whole day of research on the internet how to get into silkroad and how it works. I spent a day downloading btc blocks, and did all the account crap and here i was. I nearly jerked off into the sun when i saw the cannabis section. Two weeks later i got some hash in the mail :P.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: norelav on April 12, 2012, 04:48 am
Some Livejournal post where an author blatantly accused Tor of all the sins in the world, such as CP, weapon trading and drugs trading. One of the screenshots clearly displayed SR address at the URL bar. So it took me a month starting from that very dear moment when I entered this address to the moment I stockpiled SR orders at around $700.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: qualiyplant on April 12, 2012, 12:05 pm
Drugs Forum.com

Good times :-)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: genghar on April 12, 2012, 12:25 pm
I was doing some research on Bitcoins and eventually a blog post about Silk Road came up.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Smashin on April 12, 2012, 12:34 pm
I was at a forum online and I was posting something about drugs and while reading the other threads one of them was about where to get drugs online. Eventually I came accross information about Silk Road and the rest is history
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: greatgreatgrandpa on April 12, 2012, 01:51 pm
Last July or so, from a friend in NY, he is just that into this stuff. Has been for 2 decades. He has archives of cypherpunks bbs and such. Awesome guy, thanks dad.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: pickle87 on April 12, 2012, 01:58 pm
Heard about it on a clearnet drugs forum. Checked it out and have never gone back :D

I have been using SR for about 3 months now, have made many purchased and not one not recieved.. *touches wood*

Long live SR!
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: spa7tan on April 12, 2012, 05:05 pm
Hacker forums !
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: walkingintheclouds on April 20, 2012, 02:15 am
Train by Day, Joe Rogan podcast by night.  Finally Redban good for something, look were he sent me.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: onemanarmy81 on April 21, 2012, 02:07 am
Train by Day, Joe Rogan podcast by night.  Finally Redban good for something, look were he sent me.

Same, All Day,By Night
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: ijumz on April 21, 2012, 02:16 am
Google ----> Gawker

SR is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. Is that pathetic? Haha
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: googaloo2 on April 22, 2012, 01:20 pm
i read the article titled EVIL.COM in the sun newspaper a few saturdays ago. thanks THE SUN  ::)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: ganjabredman420 on April 22, 2012, 11:40 pm
I was looking for a connection via craigslist(stupid). Eventually I got scammed and one thing lead to another. If you ask me theres too much info out there.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: WhiskeySeven on April 23, 2012, 12:41 am
Which Joe Rogan podcast was it, anyone know?

I read about it on reddit.com/r/drugs, ironically it was a post talking about how people shouldn't be recommending others to come here

Thanks guy.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: lorry on April 23, 2012, 07:05 pm
I had been desperate for some lsd and decided to do some research into making it myself when some articles about SR came up in google. Naturally i decided to look into it and here i am now happily tripping anytime i like :D
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Kappacino on April 23, 2012, 07:12 pm
Which Joe Rogan podcast was it, anyone know?

I read about it on reddit.com/r/drugs, ironically it was a post talking about how people shouldn't be recommending others to come here

Thanks guy.

Yeah, does anyone know which JR podcast it was? I listen to that and haven't heard Redban say anything

NVM, found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDeOS4MkaqQ
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Buckfuddr on April 24, 2012, 12:03 am
Train by Day, Joe Rogan podcast by night.  Finally Redban good for something, look were he sent me.

Same, All Day,By Night


Same here, great minds think alike.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: n0n00dz4u on April 24, 2012, 12:40 am
I was actually doing research for a download accelerator I had recently found named polipo.

I stumbled across an article on a clear net website describing the dark net and its relating enterprises. The actual website address was listed in the post so I quickly downloaded tor and began browsing.

It took a little research and a lot of nerve to began browsing the tor network but I quickly caught on. I joined the blackmarket forums first and then joined silk road.

So far I have been really impressed.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: radicaltech on April 24, 2012, 01:04 am
Heard about it from a friend, used some basic computer research skills and got here, and a mighty fine place it is!! Someone point me to the best get started link for obtaining Bitcoin and getting the purchases going. 8)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: xarxes on April 24, 2012, 03:15 am
I hoped something like this existed, so I did a bit of digging on the clearnet and voila! Really glad I found it.. When I first found it I was literally amazed that there was a huge thriving community not bound by laws and regulations of any specific country and yet people still work together. I mean this is more underground than your average Joe tends to delve.. Only just joined the forum today by the way, so hi everyone    8)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Kappacino on April 24, 2012, 04:49 am
Heard about it from a friend, used some basic computer research skills and got here, and a mighty fine place it is!! Someone point me to the best get started link for obtaining Bitcoin and getting the purchases going. 8)

Where do you live? There are many ways.

You can do a wire transfer to an exchange like www.MtGox.com. You then buy bitcoins from them and withdraw to your wallet/silk road address.

Alternatively you can use www.bitinstant.com, and actually go into a bank (US only) to deposit cash, and they will then send the money to your MtGox account (there are other options for where the money is sent). You don't need to give ID to deposit cash into their bank account.

Alternatively you can buy a moneypak, or use Western Union/Moneygram and send money to one of the sellers here on Silk Road who will then give you bitcoins.

For Western Union/Moneygram I recommend googleyed (however he does have $250 minumum) : http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/item/54a632d70b

And for moneypak BTC Buddy is a good choice: http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/item/e59c5af70b

However you do need 0.02 to buy that listing. If you decide to buy that one, message me and I will send you the 0.02 so you can get started.

Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Jimmy245 on April 24, 2012, 11:35 pm
I heard about SR through a close friend.

How did you guys get here?

How did I hear about what?  What's Silk Road?  I don't what you're talking about.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Montoro on April 24, 2012, 11:46 pm
 :P

Using Deep Search....
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: sdesu on April 25, 2012, 12:07 am
A Google search.

Gotta love the internet.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: mintberrycrunch56 on April 25, 2012, 02:53 am
The BBC - a venerable public service ;o)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: totallyfknamazed on April 25, 2012, 06:02 am
I heard about this place after I heard about idiots paying random people for drugs on topix forums. I love watching the drama on topix lol. I have been reading that forum for like 2 years. I started posting and someone mentioned Tor, and then after the mention of that, another person said "I had to get Tor to get on the silk road" ...it was all rather confusing. So I googled Tor and silk road. And here I am. Awesome community.. I hope I can get some of what I need on here. Drug dealers in real life are "on their way" when they are just about to jump in the shower or their houses are about to be raided by the popo because 24 different people come by to "visit" every afternoon. Thanks to whomever for creating this ebay of drugs.

..my first post. Hi everyone.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Enlightened Ninja on April 26, 2012, 04:25 pm
I don't know what you're talking about, what's Silk Road? ;)

Another family member
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: FuckYeahToys on April 26, 2012, 08:15 pm
browsing the hidden wiki  8)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: yumandpancakes2 on April 26, 2012, 09:39 pm
DMT called my name and told me the URL.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: cyb3rwheadon on April 27, 2012, 02:00 am
A link to Gawker article on Google News grabbed my attention. I was just banned from Partnersinpain2 by some freak for my first and only post containing vendor endorsement.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: i3lazd on April 27, 2012, 02:39 pm
I learned from a rave talking to someone then googled it.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: slappy123 on April 27, 2012, 03:12 pm
A buddy of mine got some good pot from Amsterdam about a year ago and wouldnt tell me where he got it... Well I ended up finding SR's info on wikipedia If I remember correctly.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: cerealbox on April 28, 2012, 01:04 am
4chan
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: streetcustomer on April 28, 2012, 10:39 am
Flashback.org, a swedish forum.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: JSDood on April 28, 2012, 01:14 pm
Thanks to Gawker for showing me the way.  More thanks to the vendors I've been so lucky to hook up with.  And MOST thanks to SR for making it all possible! This place actually IS where it's at!! ;)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: itsmagic on April 29, 2012, 02:13 am
I heard about it when it first started, but I was new to the whole drug culture then.
And I remember reading up on bitcoins, and it was all too much for me back then.

Now it's all too simple with the new businesses that do bitcoin currency exchange and stuff :)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Psychogewitter on April 29, 2012, 02:21 am
Searchin for buying LSD and found the answer in a blog from musicians Kraftfuttermischwerk.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Bob_Marley on April 29, 2012, 02:04 pm
saw this Article talking about cp and contract killers in the "dark side of the web"
and there it was.. The eBay of drugs.
did my research. and here i am
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: SoopaRolla on April 30, 2012, 08:27 pm
/b/
deepweb threads led me to hidden wiki, being like 15 i was curious of what was in it, drug markets are a cool thing to impress friends with..

Now its actually useful, having lack of most psychedelics in my area :\ or pure cut m... So i guess necessity brought me here 8)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: jhannm on May 01, 2012, 12:17 am
I was on the shroomery and they had Gawkers article posted, I did a little research but was like no not for me, then one day I was like I'm going to try and get on there. Here I am still waiting on my first order placed a little over a week ago. Actually i did receive one order already but it's just cool little baggies to put my real order in when it gets here :)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Mecajesus on May 01, 2012, 07:36 am
I was waiting on my car to get fixed, while in the waiting room i picked up a copy of the "Rolling Stones" magazine. Either the October '11 or November '11 issue, small article about this site in their.

If i never picked up that magazine i don't think i'd ever be here
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Krazys on May 01, 2012, 08:01 am
I am old, ooold I say! Old as dirt. I was scripting in COBOL before they added "scope terminators" (Srsly).  I helped Al Gore invent the internet (OK, perhaps not).

I have been crawling the Deep Web since before it WAS the Deep Web.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: jaco7 on May 02, 2012, 08:23 pm
Off a friend, don't know where he heard about it...
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: freedomisknowlage on May 02, 2012, 10:44 pm
RT have covered SR a few times now.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Hawk23 on May 03, 2012, 01:30 am
I was looking for a fake ID and an old buddy of mine turned me on. Now I can't stop hanging out here.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: howardkarmel on May 03, 2012, 07:14 am
buddy of mine just told me about this place. He'd never used it before but he got me interested.
damn fine service, SR
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: i3lazd on May 03, 2012, 08:59 am
I heard from an LSD dealer at an event.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: 0netw0 on May 04, 2012, 12:51 am
A drug board even though they mentioned reg just closed. Think it was a year ago. Never thought much of it...but then curiosity got the best of me and here i am!
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Michael25 on May 04, 2012, 12:53 am
Amazingly enough I heard it from an article bashing it and being negative about it. If I never read it, I probably would have never been here. Strange how their efforts did the exact opposite.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: TheBigDirty on May 05, 2012, 12:53 am
Free Talk Live Radio show:  www.freetalklive.com
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Mr. Anderson on May 06, 2012, 02:47 am
I heard it from the same guy who vowed to take this site down--Sen. Charles Ellis Schumer, D-NY.

A few years back, his office "leaked" a memo that was detrimental to a certain company that our investment club owned. Such a crooked move. Always cringed when I would see his face on TV since that episode. Well last summer, Google News had a headline with his name on it, so I clicked on it. There he was sitting in front of his computer with the Silk Road homepage on his monitor:


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Senator Charles Schumer is asking federal authorities to shut down a secretive narcotics market operated online with anonymous sales and untraceable currency.

Heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines are among the drugs being sold in the well-protected website apparently operating for just a few months. It was made public by Gawker and news media reports several days ago.

"Literally, it allows buyers and users to sell illegal drugs online, including heroin, cocaine, and meth, and users do sell by hiding their identities through a program that makes them virtually untraceable," Schumer said at a news conference Sunday. "It's a certifiable one-stop shop for illegal drugs that represents the most brazen attempt to peddle drugs online that we have ever seen. It's more brazen than anything else by lightyears."

Even more amazing, said Schumer, is that users rate their delivery performance and the quality of the drug on the site.

The website uses a complex Internet configuration that allows the users to remain anonymous and untraceable by downloading the program TOR. Users can then log on to the site and hide their IP addresses so that neither the buyer nor the seller knows who they're dealing with.

To make sure the money exchanged can't be traced, the site uses a new digital currency called Bitcoins that can be purchased online by visitors, according to Schumer. Using real money, users purchase these Bitcoins, which can be traded at roughly $9 to one bitcoin, and use them as proxy for real money when they buy things on Silk Road.

"It's an online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who's both selling and buying the drug," said Schumer.

Once purchased, sellers are advised to ship the drugs in vacuum-sealed packs to make sure the packages aren't detected from the likes of drug-sniffing dogs and other narcotics surveillance.

Schumer said it was crucial for DEA and Department of Justice to shut down the site immediately now that is public.

"The DEA has confirmed they are aware of the site, and while they won't confirm or deny that an investigation is underway, from my years of experience, I'd bet my bottom dollar in this instance there is one underway," he said.
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So if it wasn't for him, I would never have found it. It was Karma finding a way to make things right....
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: theonetheonlyandy on May 09, 2012, 01:18 pm
The first gawker article. took me like a week to get on and about two weeks just to get coin. almost a year and always gotten my packages from around the world.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: killerglass on May 09, 2012, 09:55 pm
The first gawker article. took me like a week to get on and about two weeks just to get coin. almost a year and always gotten my packages from around the world/

Exactly the same here.  Except for getting caught up in the Missit/peopleb4profits scams.  But that taught me some very valuable lessons.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: BishBash on May 09, 2012, 10:34 pm
Hey all, new member here and thought this was an appropriate first post :P .

A few weeks ago there was a live DnB / Dubstep event going on in this city, and we were late picking up our MDMA so when I called my regular guy it was all gone (as a result of this major event). We couldn't see our favorite dub artists watching everyone around us hard rolling, so we had to get hold of some and that guy is the only (good) MD dealer I know here.

We ended up getting a number off our neighbors and this guy was all out too, we ended up working down a chain of number after number for about an hour and 5 spliffs or more until finally we found someone who had some, sounded genuine and could drop off. When he got here and was weighing it out he started banging on about this "top secret" site you can buy any drug off of. Obviously he wasn't going to tell us (he would've wanted our repeat custom). When he mentioned that "it's not on the internet its on this anonymous ting" I asked him if he was talking about Tor (I'm no newbie when it comes to the internet) and he knew I was going to find it and shut up about it, haha.

I can tell you one thing for sure, a lot of dealers don't want people to know about this site.

I only actually bothered to search for it yesterday and found it after no more than 5 minutes. I'm very happy to see that the sources I get my weed from are as good if not better strains/prices than on this site, which I'm very happy about :), so I don't think I'll be buying my weed here unless theirs some proper rare strains or sick deals. However, MDMA, MXE I will definitely be buying. Fucking cracking deals on those chems here.

Think I'll make my first order (MXE) sometime this week.
Also nice community you have here :), forums seem very active and ass-hattery doesn't seem too common. :P

Peace

EDIT:
p.s. Any (non-obvious please) tips for a first time buyer? I've not been off the internet researching this website since I found it, so I know the basics (and probably more).
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Horizons on May 09, 2012, 10:43 pm
EDIT:
p.s. Any (non-obvious please) tips for a first time buyer? I've not been off the internet researching this website since I found it, so I know the basics (and probably more).

Research vendors in the Rumor Mill section of the forum to see if they're legit, read their vendor page before placing an order to know how they like to do business, encrypt your communications with PGP, stay in escrow and don't use a fake name on your address.

But most importantly, enjoy your MDMA and MXE.  8)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: deniedwings on May 10, 2012, 12:46 am
I heard it from the same guy who vowed to take this site down--Sen. Charles Ellis Schumer, D-NY.

A few years back, his office "leaked" a memo that was detrimental to a certain company that our investment club owned. Such a crooked move. Always cringed when I would see his face on TV since that episode. Well last summer, Google News had a headline with his name on it, so I clicked on it. There he was sitting in front of his computer with the Silk Road homepage on his monitor:


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Senator Charles Schumer is asking federal authorities to shut down a secretive narcotics market operated online with anonymous sales and untraceable currency.

Heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines are among the drugs being sold in the well-protected website apparently operating for just a few months. It was made public by Gawker and news media reports several days ago.

"Literally, it allows buyers and users to sell illegal drugs online, including heroin, cocaine, and meth, and users do sell by hiding their identities through a program that makes them virtually untraceable," Schumer said at a news conference Sunday. "It's a certifiable one-stop shop for illegal drugs that represents the most brazen attempt to peddle drugs online that we have ever seen. It's more brazen than anything else by lightyears."

Even more amazing, said Schumer, is that users rate their delivery performance and the quality of the drug on the site.

The website uses a complex Internet configuration that allows the users to remain anonymous and untraceable by downloading the program TOR. Users can then log on to the site and hide their IP addresses so that neither the buyer nor the seller knows who they're dealing with.

To make sure the money exchanged can't be traced, the site uses a new digital currency called Bitcoins that can be purchased online by visitors, according to Schumer. Using real money, users purchase these Bitcoins, which can be traded at roughly $9 to one bitcoin, and use them as proxy for real money when they buy things on Silk Road.

"It's an online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who's both selling and buying the drug," said Schumer.

Once purchased, sellers are advised to ship the drugs in vacuum-sealed packs to make sure the packages aren't detected from the likes of drug-sniffing dogs and other narcotics surveillance.

Schumer said it was crucial for DEA and Department of Justice to shut down the site immediately now that is public.

"The DEA has confirmed they are aware of the site, and while they won't confirm or deny that an investigation is underway, from my years of experience, I'd bet my bottom dollar in this instance there is one underway," he said.
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So if it wasn't for him, I would never have found it. It was Karma finding a way to make things right....

Same exact for me.  I hate that fucking useless piece of shit Schumer, but his idiotic blathering is absolutely the reason I heard about and put the effort into finding this place.  It has worked out well for me, I am naturally pretty cautious and only buy from very established vendors so no scams yet, and I have got LSD (impossible for me to get here) and several interesting strains of grass that I wouldnt have had the opportunity to try.  So thanks fuck-face Schumer!
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: smokeweed420 on May 11, 2012, 05:54 am
8 months ago my fat nerd cousin with no irl hookups showed me it. he said he got his weed from here. i was interested so i checked it out and was very happy i did :) buy damn i miss the days when i first joined and it was smaller and more trustworthy.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: raveryote on May 11, 2012, 11:29 am
I heard about SR through a close friend.

How did you guys get here?

a close friend linked me to the Wired article, and thought i'd be personally interested.

it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

a rebel without a cause got a cause worth fighting for.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Chuck Schumer - Democrat on May 11, 2012, 06:25 pm
Why, from Chuck Schumer, of course.    ;)

I guess he wasn't counting on the Streisand Effect.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: mrduke on May 11, 2012, 08:22 pm
I came across a reference to SR while researching the Deep Web. The author of the article said something like "..and then there's the infamous Silk Road.." By that night I was a member, and within 1.5 weeks I had successfully made my first order  ;D.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: bostonceltics on May 11, 2012, 09:04 pm
found out about the site from my old mdma dealer, he mentioned that the guy he gets it off imports the stuff from holland off the internet. he mentioned tor, looked it up and bang :D



Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: NeuroRelativizer on May 12, 2012, 01:28 am
Well first the universe reached out to my friend and said "Here, you look like you need this, and you certainly deserve it," then he turned to me and said "Hey, you have to check this out."
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: promethean on May 12, 2012, 05:51 am
An email from my ex. She said I should look into it, she never did any business from this site but knew that I had troubles communicating to anyone but loved getting high. So this would be an alternative. Don't have to mess with trying to find anyone in person.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: punkhippy on May 12, 2012, 11:38 pm
Yea I attracted it to me as well. I lost my car and had no way to get my blow so I pondered on it for a bit and one day while surfing some sites, bang, I come upon SR and BMR all at the same time. I prefer SR
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: sselevol on May 13, 2012, 12:04 pm
I found a darkweb thread on 4chan and saw SR mentioned. I googled it, came across Gawker's article, and then I pretty much had all the knowledge I needed to get here. The rest is a blurry mess.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Totalpay on May 13, 2012, 03:02 pm
A friend just told me 2 days ago said there would be some stuff that I'm really into. ;)
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: shivashanti on May 13, 2012, 03:04 pm
I googled "buying drugs online" ! LOL
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: Totalpay on May 13, 2012, 03:07 pm
LMFAO! Awesome
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: ZA6wUw8a on June 13, 2012, 06:20 pm
Quote
I found a darkweb thread on 4chan and saw SR mentioned. I googled it, came across Gawker's article, and then I pretty much had all the knowledge I needed to get here. The rest is a blurry mess.

Some person on /b/ was begging for a bitcoin.
Hearing about this currency on RC sites, I asked him what drugs he was buying.
H he said.
Source?
SR. 

A couple clicks later...

Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: sselevol on June 13, 2012, 07:47 pm
Quote
I found a darkweb thread on 4chan and saw SR mentioned. I googled it, came across Gawker's article, and then I pretty much had all the knowledge I needed to get here. The rest is a blurry mess.

Some person on /b/ was begging for a bitcoin.
Hearing about this currency on RC sites, I asked him what drugs he was buying.
H he said.
Source?
SR. 

A couple clicks later...

haha, it wasn't that thread. I remember seeing the screenshots of Tor thinking the OP must be some amazing hacker. I see the odd mention on other boards, and I'm pretty sure it's always the guy with the Costanza avatar on here.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: tHEgREy on June 13, 2012, 08:24 pm
My search for SR started 4 years ago when I took my first toke of mj through an apple. Since then, I've been very interested in drugs (not addicted) and started reading up on everything I could find about them. Fast forward to March this year and after reading 100's of articles on erowid, the nexus, and BL, I discovered TOR. It was very much a snowball effect after that. I got into TOR and found that anything could be traded through it so I was like, "I wonder if I could buy weed and have it shipped to me?" Well, here I am in June, reminiscing about being a kid in a candy store the day I first logged on.
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: killerglass on June 13, 2012, 08:29 pm
Got here from the Gawker article, and joined over a year ago.  Not being much of a "computer person", and certainly never having heard of TOR, encryption or bitcions, it took me over a WEEK to figure it all out.  I became obsessed.  I read every post on the forum.  I read clearnet forums on how to work the rest.  And lo and behold, I finally figured it out.

Been here ever since.....
Title: How did you first hear about Silk Road
Post by: HarmReduction on October 28, 2012, 02:49 pm
How did you hear about Silk Road
Title: Re: How did you first hear about Silk Road
Post by: MetaD13 on October 28, 2012, 03:03 pm
message in a bottle
Title: Re: How did you first hear about Silk Road
Post by: NOTspacecase on October 28, 2012, 03:17 pm
Try the search bar, there's a pretty large thread just like this that was started a few weeks ago.
Title: Re: How did you first hear about Silk Road
Post by: Virmo on October 28, 2012, 03:18 pm
On Dutch tv about drugs and sex: Spuiten en Slikken. You can look it up on youtube with english subtitles :D
Title: Re: How did you first hear about Silk Road
Post by: trowabarton on October 29, 2012, 03:36 am
drug forums.
Title: Re: How did you first hear about Silk Road
Post by: GiveUsSome on October 29, 2012, 03:40 am
there was a Gawker article.
Title: Re: How did you first hear about Silk Road
Post by: microRNA on October 29, 2012, 04:11 am
as was mentioned, there was already a thread about this exact topic

please use the search function before making a new thread

just merged the two topics together because they were the same exact question
Title: Re: How did you hear about SR?
Post by: GonzosGlitch on October 29, 2012, 10:42 pm
I had a tech friend who was balls deep in 4chan and stuff tell me all about it. I was far too skeptical to take the plunge though... however, upon traveling the burner scene (flipside, alchemy, lakes of fire, etc) i began meeting other nomadic burners who couldn't rely upon local connects for their substance as they were never a "local" to any scene in particular for any extended period of time. They all got their fix from the SR! This immediately turned me onto the legitimacy of the site and i've been excited to participate ever since! :)