Quote from: rosannebar on February 15, 2013, 08:48 amOk here is what I am wondering. Say you pay a bill with money you don't actually have in your account.  When that transaction reached and was confirmed by say blockchain, would they not at that point be mixed into the market?  Or at least affecting blockchain as well?   I'm just trying to wrap my head around it, and wondering how many people sent coins from sr wallets to other wallets?    See what Im wondering? Couldn't someone stay ahead of the *fake* by pushing them around?There are two things totally independent of each other: Bitcoin, and Silk Road's internal database. When you send coins to your account, they "bounce" off of the address you send coins to in order to deposit funds in your SR account. By that I mean as soon as the transaction is confirmed, SR automatically sends those coins off to another address that has nothing to do with you or really anything else -- this is part of the Silk Road mixing service.The coins in your account aren't actually yours, you've already given them to Silk Road and a Silk Road wallet owns them already. So when you transfer coins to another SR member, you aren't actually transferring coins, you're just altering Silk Road's internal database (this is why transferring to a SR account is instant -- no coins get moved, so there's no need to wait for confirmations).When you buy something, no transfer takes place either. It's all Silk Road's database, and when the vendor says "give me my money," Silk Road sends the appropriate amount and subtracts it from the vendor's account. Where those coins come from is probably more or less random. Does that answer your question?