Quote from: Becker on June 29, 2012, 08:42 pmI was wondering the same thing actually. How safe is it to transfer directly into the wallet? I know when sending the BTC go through a bunch of different wallets before getting to the destination wallet but is it not the same for transferring into the wallet?This all depends on how you obtained your Bitcoins in the first place.If you obtained your Bitcoins safely by buying them with cash or through selling goods e.g MoneyPaks then there's no material benefit as far as I can see in transferring your coins through multiple wallets before sending them straight to your SR address.If you used a traceable method to buy your Bitcoins e.g bank transfer then without using a coin mixer it will be possible to trace your transactions throughout the Bitcoin block chain. The best way to illustrate this is to go to www.blockchain.info which is an online representation of the block chain and type your SR wallet address into the bar at the top right. You'll see the balance of your address as well as the amount of coins you've received at that address and the address where those coins came from. You can take the addresses from which you've received coins and do the same thing to trace back the coins to the very first wallet address where your coins were received - this is true whether you send your coins straight to SR after buying them or send them via a dozen different wallets, so in a sense you're right in saying it isn't much safer.If you insist on using a traceable method to buy your Bitcoins, I would recommend using a mixing service (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service) - these are designed specifically to prevent the kind of analysis I've outlined above and will increase your safety.Silk Road itself has a built in coin mixer for withdrawals but not deposit i.e your coins are not "mixed" when they arrive in your wallet but will be when they leave it. Of course there's no reason you can't have a separate SR account to receive payments then withdraw them to your real one if you want but if you want to be ultra safe I'd recommend using the mixing service Bitcoinfog (http://fogcore5n3ov3tui.onion/) - for a small commission (1-3%) your coins can be mixed and withdrawn in random amounts over a longer period of time which is better than SR's mixer which tumbles your Bitcoins on the spot. No reason you can't use both of course!At the risk of sounding like a plug if you buy your coins using cash from a Bitcoin trader like me then you can save yourself all this worry and bother!V.