I think you missed the point and gave bad information here------ I don't want to speak for him, but no, that is most definitely not what he's telling you. It's just there so it's easier for people to understand pricing. If I tell you a pizza is 10$, you'd be okay with that. If I told you it was 50$, you'd think it was insane. Now if I tell you a pizza is 1000 yen, is that a good deal? 5 yen? 25000 yen? 85 rubles? I have no idea and you probably don't either. Most are just as clueless with Bitcoin, so you can display prices in USD since most people have a more accurate basis of what the hell that actually means. Vendors price there item in US DOLLARS so that it makes no difference what the btc it trading for. THATS IT. Other wise if I listed a pill for 1btc then depending on the day that pill could cost you $5 or $30. So instead EVERY vendor prices their products to the dollar. And in doing this you will always pay the same amount of cash for the item. It is actually very simple. I am shocked(not really though as there is so much misinformation in these forums by people that think they know and they do not know shit) at how many people thing that that with the btc going UP in value that they are paying more for their drugs.... the price of the btc in no way affects the price you pay for your drugs. Since we all price them in dollars. So as long as you buy your drugs as soon as you buy your coins then you are fine..but in the last 30 days you could have waited and the more you waited the "less you pay" as the btc has doubled in that time. Also there is absolutely NO REASON to "wash" your coins or any other thing at all. Just send the coins to your Sr account and use them!! There is NO risk WHAT SO EVER. Anyone that is doing anything other then sending their coins to SR is wasting time and money for no reason. You do not need to use a mixer or anything else. I have read through this thread and I can't believe how much bad information there is in here about the bit coin and using it for buying on silk road. For 99% of you the only reason you are getting it is because that is all we vendors take. So all you need to know is that the prices for goods are set in dollar amounts. And you will ALWAYS pay the same price for goods no matter what the btc does. It makes no difference if a btc is worth $1 OR $100. All that matters is that you use your coins as soon as you get them so that in case from the time you purchase your coins to the time you purchase goods on Silk Road if the btc is going down then you will need MORE btc....if it is going up...you will need less. The good thing is SR uses a 24 hour average of MT.GOX so you can get the app that tells you the current price of the btc and you will then know what the SR price will be in the next 24hrs. There is a free app for this so that you can always see the current exchange rate for btc. And unless you are buying your coins from me...then you are paying some sort of premium for the btc usually less then 10%. And that is just the price of doing business. So sit back and relax and realize that 95% of the "information" on the forums is wrong. And that you do not need to know most of it anyways...as 99% of you are going to get btc in your account...then use them! So no need to worry about the btc going up and down.