Quote from: Nikodym on June 30, 2012, 05:31 amPersonally I think a lot of the BTC buying paranoia is overblown. Drugs have been going through the mail for 100s of years, most of the time it has nothing to do with SR, unless your package was intercepted via a profiling operation linked to a SR vendor I highly highly doubt any LE would even ask you if it had anything to do with SR or look for BTC transactions in your financial records. Even then, what are they really going to do about it? Criminal charge means the burden of proof is on them, and even if you bought straight from Mt. Gox to SR wallet to vendor, they're going to have a terribly difficult time trying to prove that unless you fuck up horribly and incriminate yourself. Cash is used to by drugs way more often than BTC but who actually feels guilty when they have a couple $100s in their pocket?? Not me... There's plenty of legit purposes for BTC anyway. This isn't to say it's not something to err on the side of caution with, and I don't buy coins that way myself, but the risk is fairly minimal IMO. Well it's certainly true that possession is in itself the crime and if you accept contraband into your home you'll be as guilty if you bought drugs on Silk Road as if you bought them from your long lost Uncle in Colombia.Having said this, if you do receive a package and later claim you were innocent possession i.e it was unsolicited, it's not going to help your defence if it can be proven from examining your bank records that you bought Bitcoins and/or have been using Tor. Of course Bitcoins have legal uses but try and put yourself in the position of a juror whose just heard that you've bought a digital currency, the main purpose for which is to deal in contraband - would you "buy" it as Americans say? :-)This is the reason why I advocate using cash to buy BTC (aside from the fact I'm a Bitcoin trader!) as you can frankly do without that kind of hassle. I doubt very much that you would be put under surveillance just for buying BTC but once again I believe prevention is better than cure.V.