Quote from: astor on January 14, 2013, 01:43 pmI've heard of vendors not receiving BTC. The order from the buyer is there, in their account history, but the BTC don't show up. Probably just a bug.astor's point seems to have been... well not so much overlooked as not taken to be as factual a statement as it should have been. When you transfer coins into your SR wallet, they bounce right off that bitcoin address and go to another address (where they probably again bounce, but I never bothered looking that far). It's part of the rudimentary SR coin tumbling system. The coins get credited to your account once received at the address for you to deposit coins, but from that point on it's all SR and their unique database. The coins aren't actually at your account address. Only SR records that they are. This begs the question... when you send coins to another member, where the fuck do they come from? I don't really know that part, but I assume they're deducted from the sending account and simply added to the recipient's account without ever dealing with actual bitcoins or bitcoin transactions. I've never seen it take more than literally 10-20 seconds, myself... but I've never transferred $1000 worth of BTC. There may be safeguards in place -- anything over a specific amount has to be reviewed and okayed or something.Why? Because otherwise if there is a bug that somebody finds one day, they could transfer coins all over the place that they don't really have. Then when you withdraw them, one of the bitcoin addresses owned by SR sends them to the address of your choice. You see the disconnect here? If SR's database isn't *perfect*, if there's even a single bug, it could be used to steal literally everyone's bitcoins. All of them. Everything in escrow, everything from sellers that haven't cashed out yet, literally everything.The people who run Silk Road have shown themselves to be good guys that you can basically rely on time and time again. But there aren't many of them. It's hard to find people you can trust with these sorts of operations. They deserve a little more patience than they get, frankly. But what I'm saying is that we WANT it to take extra time for anyhthing more than like, 100 bucks.Because if it didn't... well, that would be bad and possibly just another way for someone to steal ALL our money. Ours and DPRs. Besides, every system has bugs. Theirs does too. That's why they correct failed things manually when it's necessary. Don't worry about it, you'll get your coins. Just give them a reasonable amount of time. There's a whole lot of interconnected systems working seamlessly behind the scenes here, you know.