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Quote from: Yoda on September 21, 2013, 03:28 am

I think I remember on of the resident security experts here doing a test with blockchain's mixer, and it really didn't cut it.

Bitcoinfog's is looked at as safer.

Okay, bitcoinfog it is then. Now I have to find out how to use it. Reading it just now and seeing something about depositing/withdrawing a couple times and then having it being lower or higher. This is confusing me 
Off to more research!!!

Quote from: samesamebutdifferent on September 21, 2013, 03:42 am

Quote from: Synesthesiamnesia on September 21, 2013, 02:16 am

Okay, so I want to use coinbase, for example, as my method for buying bitcoins. It seem relatively cheap, even though I've read that it takes about a week to actually pull through. Anyways, I was wondering if linking my bank account is a bad idea if I wanted to keep my tread marks invisible? I was thinking of maybe buying it from coinbase, transferring it to blockchain, or some other wallet, then transferring that to silk. Would that not accomplish anything or how does it work?

So you are using Tor so you can access hidden services and keep your anonymity safe whilst using SR but you want to know if its safe to link your identity to the currency you will use to buy illegal drugs on the market site? I'll leave you to ponder that for a while before answering your post further.

LOL! No, you're right. I'm just trying to do this as fast and easy as possible, but it shouldn't be that way of course. But as mentioned before, even if I did do that, would I be able to cover my tracks if I used bitcoinfog to mix it? Or should I just consider using localbitcoins all together?

Don't be lazy, your liberty may depend upon it. There are many ways you can buy your coins anonymously, did it occur to you why the easy ways to get coins require you to deanonymize yourself? don't do it mate, its the weak link in the chain.

Okay, so I want to use coinbase, for example, as my method for buying bitcoins. It seem relatively cheap, even though I've read that it takes about a week to actually pull through. Anyways, I was wondering if linking my bank account is a bad idea if I wanted to keep my tread marks invisible? I was thinking of maybe buying it from coinbase, transferring it to blockchain, or some other wallet, then transferring that to silk. Would that not accomplish anything or how does it work?

So you are using Tor so you can access hidden services and keep your anonymity safe whilst using SR but you want to know if its safe to link your identity to the currency you will use to buy illegal drugs on the market site? I'll leave you to ponder that for a while before answering your post further.

Quote from: mdmafx on September 20, 2013, 10:52 pm

And do how do we as buyers know you as a vendor did that? Until more is known I won't be passing on my address to any vendor linked to Atlantis.

You should be passing on your address encrypted anyways.


Atlantis was a better site but NO ONE was there. There were just no customers. I stopped using Atlantis months ago because there was no business to be had. I really wish SR would institute their automatic encryption system.

I can see why a lot of people would think the automatic encryption system was a good idea but personally I prefer to do my own encryption and not put my trust in a 3rd party to do it for me. I also think it breeds laziness when it comes to taking your anonymity seriously, learning how to use PGP should be a mandatory requirement for anyone using hidden services like SR.

Quote from: plainsman1963 on September 21, 2013, 01:47 am

Quote from: poppermachine on September 21, 2013, 01:39 am

I think you made a mistake, the link you just posted is the phishing site, NOT the real site.

I'm the only one that posted a link, so I guess you are talking to me? Not a chance my link is the phishing site, unless of course you also have the phishing site posted in your signature as your vendor url.

No, there is a small difference between our links, look closer. Yours is the phising link.

Oh and you do realize there is no different between the link that was posted and the link in your URL, neither is the phishing link, both are correct.

Quote from: samesamebutdifferent on September 20, 2013, 03:22 pm

I doubt vending on Sr could generate the kind of cash the CIA would be interested in, they were flying tonnes of coke into the US to fund the Nicaraguan Contras, they would have to be top tier and selling a shit load of drugs, think of how much effort would be involved in running that operation, nah I'm not buying it.

LE selling drugs won't happen imho, they can sell fake ID's, guns and all sorts of other shit in their pursuit of the perceived bad guys but if it came out they were selling drugs it would destroy what little credibility they have.

I love you dude. I really do. But I have got to disagree with you here.

I have it from a VERY RELIABLE SOURCE (meaning someone I know) that the CIA will bring drugs into the USA. They have been caught by another US agency (the department of the Interior - the secret service also known as THE BORDER PATROL) and were told by their superiors to let them pass.

Here is Gary Webb's summary on Wikipedia:

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Webb's "Dark Alliance," a 20,000 word, three-part investigative series alleged that Nicaraguan drug traffickers had sold and distributed crack cocaine in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and that drug profits were used to fund the CIA-supported Nicaraguan Contras. Webb never asserted that the CIA directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras, but he did document that the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of cocaine into the U.S. by the Contra personnel. In 2004, Webb was found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head, which the coroner's office judged a suicide.

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

But your real objection to this is THE AMOUNT. I guarantee that it really doesn't take very much money to fund a small contingency in Afghanistan. The US will no doubt give them money directly -but do you know what else will REALLY get them some much needed cash? The CIA or even our armed forces are more than willing to look the other way -when it comes to aiding our allies. Whether or not SR is the market of choice is incidental. The drugs from their shore is coming to ours and the US is letting it happen.

(Oh, and if any of you Heroin users out there just noticed... I am saying that your drug purchases are helping the US in our sacred fight against terrorism. So GO USA!!! Woo Woo woo.)

Isn't that what I said? I know the CIA ran drugs in the 1980's and probably still does to fund it's operations and achieve it's goals. What I said was I doubt LE would set up shop on SR and vend illegal drugs, I do not consider the CIA as LE, the CIA are a rule unto themselves.

 

I've had pure coke in South America and it blew my head off, the tiniest of lines was enough to get you right up there and it lasted quite a while. The trouble with coke is everyone's perceptions differ, I would hate to be a coke vendor on SR, you could have A1 product and still get complaints from disgruntled customers.

I've been told once too often on SR by vendors that there coke is the real deal, 87% pure with no active cuts blah blah blah. So far in 12 months on SR I can list the vendors who sell the fire on th fingers of one hand, in no particular order they are:

* DrPVmd, currently on hiatus, much loved and missed by his customers, consistently sold decent reasonably high quality coke at afordable prices.
* Studio54, has the best coke on SR right now by a country mile, very clean and potent.
* DrCol has some very nice charlie
* Rails, might be giving Studio a run for his money as the crowned king of cocaine on SR, someones opinion who I trust tells me its even better than Studio54's PDS, I would need to try for myself though to see if that story holds up.

There are obviously other solid vendors out there selling good quality stuff, my little list above is based upon my buying experiences.

Yeah I had been considering the whole Israel and US thing, fuck it I'm ditching it.

I wasn't using java by the way, chose the fast interface with no scripts.

While I'm able to use PGP I personally haven't bothered. AIUI, addresses are held on the SR servers and are deleted when the vendor confirms shipment, by which point the vendor will have decrypted the address to plaintext for shipping (and then, if obeying the rules, destroyed any copy of it). I feel that the extra security may be worth it for some people but for myself, purchasing personal amounts, I think it unnecessary.

There are other ways your information can be hacked, just because you are on SR doesn't mean you are immune to a man in the middle attack. Just look at the recent Atlantis phishing link that caught a shit load of people out, that phishing link still created an account on the real Atlantis site.

Each to their own of course but I would still recommend encrypting all identifiable information.