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[–]BitcoinPorn 37 points38 points  (0 children)

That was surprisingly not a shit post about Silk Road, well done man :)

[–]internetsuperstar 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Yes you should. Please post it to the IAMA subreddit though for maximum exposure.

[–]bitcoinfan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do it!

[–]mrestko 8 points9 points  (7 children)

The stamps on the envelop aren't cancelled?

[–]murf43143 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Honestly it looks like you just put some stamps on an orange envelope and took a picture because that package did not go through the mail.

[–]murf43143 1 point2 points  (3 children)

But the fact of the matter is, this individual package went through about 6-10 transitional post offices, that would all have had to made the exact mistake and "overlooked" their official transit stamps, because each post master that touches that package is required to look for two things... one is the address and the other is the crossed stamps.

Who knows...

[–]murf43143 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Shit, all you had to say was 4+ year redditor and I would have shutup! But you are right now that I think about it.

[–]fuckdapopo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Bitcoin Killer Application. This is why Bitcoin will always have value.

[–]6ixEch0 2 points3 points  (2 children)

One drawback to using .onion sites is you only know about them through word of mouth. It'd be easy to set up an .onion site, put up a website front that looks like the silk road, post the address on a site like reddit, and simply harvest your email, passwords, or other information.

For all we know, the onion address gwern gives in the write up could be a phishing scam.

[–]fantasticsid 1 point2 points  (4 children)

What the hell does being Australian have to do with it?

[–]fuckdapopo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They inspect EVERY package. Stuff that looks like legal prescription drugs are often let through though. Not so much with obviously illegal stuff.

[–]jimmick 0 points1 point  (1 child)

We have a bunch of shitty shows about border security but they only ever pull aside foreigners and weird statues packed with heroin.

[–]crazysonofabitch -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

i got half a gram of 2ci sent through about 10 years ago. a friend picked it up from customs who questioned him over it for an hour. shit gets you fucking high.

[–]jomkr -2 points-1 points  (5 children)

This is terrible advice, TOR is not magic, it is a system with well known weaknesses. If someone doesn't know what they are doing the chance of not being anonymous at all multiply. A Law enforcement agent may well want to make a name for themselves by taking on Silk Road, after all a senator has mentioned it so it would sound suitably impressive. "I took down a major online international drug organization".

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    [–]yelnatz 2 points3 points  (9 children)

    I thought SR was taken down? Please enlighten me.

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      [–]fireduck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Yeah, fault tolerance with tor is not easy. I tried setting up multiple servers serving with the same private key to have fault tolerance on a single onion address and it did not work at all. So you end up handling all traffic on one box.

      [–]lordofindia 4 points5 points  (4 children)

      It wasn't. Now you are enlightened.

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        [–]ex_ample 1 point2 points * (1 child)

        Click on the join, and you will be taken to another page for registering your account, much like any other site. (I suggest picking a strong password. Learn from the Mt.Gox fiasco.)

        Lol, I think if your SilkRoad account ever got hacked you'd have a LOT more to worry about then people guessing your passwords on other sites.

        I am tired enough of the game to finally route my Bitcoins into the final set of anonymizing mixes, Silk Road’s own cointumbler. How do we do a deposit? We click on the link in the profile and see:

        Here's thing though. If you ever get coins from a coin mixer like that, isn't every address that comes out of that potentially going to be 'hot' somehow? I mean, the feds could just dump a bunch of bitcoins in there, and if they ever show up again associated with a person, charge them for money laundering.

        [–]FrustratedFighter -1 points0 points  (3 children)

        So... just who are you, gwern?

        [–]FrustratedFighter -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

        Ah, a captain, too. Can I ask your tools of anonymity, or are they all common? You sure have a nice site and presence on so many sites.

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