Silk Road forums
Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: fantastictimes on February 08, 2013, 03:03 am
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Hello all.
SR is a special thing. My guess is that one of the reasons the admins made this newbie forum is to make sure that people know what they are doing before they get started. This will help ensure that a few don't fuck it up for all of us. Due to my low forum presence I am a newbie on the forums, but I assure you that I am not new to SR. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars buying on SR and I have sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of illicit substances on SR. If you have any questions to help you get started please ask. I will answer all reasonable questions to the best of my knowledge,
Sincerely,
FT
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At what point exactly during a transaction, is it necessary to use the GPG encryption? I'm about 78% sure of what I'm doing with it as far as encrypting and decrypting. I have a few public keys gathered from the forum pages. I am a little un sure about how to give my public key out. Also, I figured out the whole BITCOIN process, and was able to buy and transfer them over to my SR wallet. My question is ,how long approximately does it take for the coins to show up in your SR wallet?
Thanks,
MarcoRuas
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I was searching the forums once and found a posting that described all the steps to take to ensure safe and anonymous selling. Anyone know where to find that posting in the forums ?
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At what point exactly during a transaction, is it necessary to use the GPG encryption? I'm about 78% sure of what I'm doing with it as far as encrypting and decrypting. I have a few public keys gathered from the forum pages. I am a little un sure about how to give my public key out. Also, I figured out the whole BITCOIN process, and was able to buy and transfer them over to my SR wallet. My question is ,how long approximately does it take for the coins to show up in your SR wallet?
Thanks,
MarcoRuas
GPG should be used whenever possible. This includes messages to and from sellers as well as when you submit the address to deliver the product to. Your public key you can give to anyone and everyone if you want (I put it with the message I send to sellers). The only thing people can do with your public key is encrypt messages that only you can decrypt.
If you are waiting for bitcoins to arrive at an address from another it normally takes an hour but it has been known to take variable amounts of time so do not worry if it takes as long as a day or so.
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I want to know if I'm being safe enough using TOR. I live in the US.
I'm just using the basic settings that come with the Tor browser. Make different usernames and passwords for every site I have created an account on. Transfered my cash to moneygram, then to one wallet before going to SR. Once on SR, I used pgp for every message. I'm not buying enough product to sell. Have made under 10 transactions. All successful.
I just really want to know if I'm taking enough steps to hide my identity with what I consider my low risk usage. Obviously this would not be enough protection for a seller, but is it for my use?
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I want to know if I'm being safe enough using TOR. I live in the US.
I'm just using the basic settings that come with the Tor browser. Make different usernames and passwords for every site I have created an account on. Transfered my cash to moneygram, then to one wallet before going to SR. Once on SR, I used pgp for every message. I'm not buying enough product to sell. Have made under 10 transactions. All successful.
I just really want to know if I'm taking enough steps to hide my identity with what I consider my low risk usage. Obviously this would not be enough protection for a seller, but is it for my use?
Tor is pretty secure. If you're worried, connect to some bridges so your connections look like harmless non-tor connections. But overall you should be fine. LE normally goes after sellers more than buyers anyway. Just remember if LE does come knocking on your door, "anyone can send anyone anything through the mail."
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I was searching the forums once and found a posting that described all the steps to take to ensure safe and anonymous selling. Anyone know where to find that posting in the forums ?
Perhaps this is what you are looking for?
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/wiki/index.php?title=Seller%27s_Guide
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You are always going to have that feeling of this is semi paranoia because you know what your doing illegal...Just find the zone gives you the least amount of stress and function in that zone>>>>peace out
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I want to know if I'm being safe enough using TOR. I live in the US.
I'm just using the basic settings that come with the Tor browser. Make different usernames and passwords for every site I have created an account on. Transfered my cash to moneygram, then to one wallet before going to SR. Once on SR, I used pgp for every message. I'm not buying enough product to sell. Have made under 10 transactions. All successful.
I just really want to know if I'm taking enough steps to hide my identity with what I consider my low risk usage. Obviously this would not be enough protection for a seller, but is it for my use?
Also, if you really want to heighten your security look into Tails on Tors website. Very good to have!
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I want to know if I'm being safe enough using TOR. I live in the US.
I'm just using the basic settings that come with the Tor browser. Make different usernames and passwords for every site I have created an account on. Transfered my cash to moneygram, then to one wallet before going to SR. Once on SR, I used pgp for every message. I'm not buying enough product to sell. Have made under 10 transactions. All successful.
I just really want to know if I'm taking enough steps to hide my identity with what I consider my low risk usage. Obviously this would not be enough protection for a seller, but is it for my use?
Also, if you really want to heighten your security look into Tails on Tors website. Very good to have!
Since we are on the topic of increasing security, you can also encrypt a volume containing tor (or go overkill and encrypt your entire hard drive) using Truecrypt.
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I was searching the forums once and found a posting that described all the steps to take to ensure safe and anonymous selling. Anyone know where to find that posting in the forums ?
Perhaps this is what you are looking for?
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/wiki/index.php?title=Seller%27s_Guide
thanks for the link to the wiki but that wasn't it. it was a forum thread where someone laid out step by step technical guide to ensure annoynous selling. I'll keep searching the forum until I find it again. thanks for the help again!
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I recommend keeping anything related to Silk Road in a truecrypt encrypted volume but especially as a seller. It allows you to do things like keep proper accounting and track your top customers without worrying about incriminating them or yourself. If you ask me, the underworld hasn't had enough proper book keeping since they realized they could pop Al Capone for tax evasion. Lol.
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I was searching the forums once and found a posting that described all the steps to take to ensure safe and anonymous selling. Anyone know where to find that posting in the forums ?
I know what your talking about ill try find it for you :)
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when in rhome as romans. hate the trolling on threads to get counts. i find some of these threads useful despite the redundancy to pull together a better insight to the order.
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How do I give karma? Great thread, learned a bit just from reading it.
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I was searching the forums once and found a posting that described all the steps to take to ensure safe and anonymous selling. Anyone know where to find that posting in the forums ?
I know what your talking about ill try find it for you :)
Thanks for the effort. I'm still looking for it and if I find that forum thread, I'll bring it back here. you guys are really helpful. honor amongst thieves?
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Hello all.
SR is a special thing. My guess is that one of the reasons the admins made this newbie forum is to make sure that people know what they are doing before they get started. This will help ensure that a few don't fuck it up for all of us. Due to my low forum presence I am a newbie on the forums, but I assure you that I am not new to SR. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars buying on SR and I have sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of illicit substances on SR. If you have any questions to help you get started please ask. I will answer all reasonable questions to the best of my knowledge,
Sincerely,
FT
Couple questions....
1. Does an SR member who has never made a purchase have to finalize early?
2. Is there any advantages using a P.O. box address vs. your home address?
Thank you,
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Hello all.
SR is a special thing. My guess is that one of the reasons the admins made this newbie forum is to make sure that people know what they are doing before they get started. This will help ensure that a few don't fuck it up for all of us. Due to my low forum presence I am a newbie on the forums, but I assure you that I am not new to SR. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars buying on SR and I have sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of illicit substances on SR. If you have any questions to help you get started please ask. I will answer all reasonable questions to the best of my knowledge,
Sincerely,
FT
Couple questions....
1. Does an SR member who has never made a purchase have to finalize early?
2. Is there any advantages using a P.O. box address vs. your home address?
Thank you,
1. No, you don't. Just make sure you read vendor's page before placing the order. Some will ask you to FE if you don't meet certain criteria. Make sure you research vendors on forums as well, not only from SR feedback. It can be faked using multiple dummy accounts.
2. No, unless you can make sure it's not tied to you in any way. If you get busted using PO box you opened using a fake ID this will probably be the heavier of two charges (if you buy for personal use)
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Is there any way to access SR via i2p instead of tor?
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Is there any way to access SR via i2p instead of tor?
No
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Is it completely necessary to encrypt messages sent through SR? I sent and received about 3 msgs between me and my first seller.... is this bad?
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I have a general question about Tor. What's the reasoning behind putting up a *clearnet* warning on links in the forums?
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where can i get alot of btc without a fee
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Questions? Ya, I have lots So many I dont even know where to start
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what is the best way to obtain btc? as far as buying it
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where can I download tails and truecrypt? Does it have to be through TOR or can it be through regular clearnet?
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all these questions have been answered a hundred times before. use the search function from the main page not the newbie section.
if you're asking about how to get BTC then it's useless if you don't say which country you want to buy from.
USA like bitinstant a lot. UK like pingit>blockchain as there's not many options
be very wary of the BTC vendors on here they may not be the most trustworthy even if you do feel more anonymous using them. make sure to avoid anyone using paypal as a payment option. they are too stupid to trust with your money.
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How do I give karma? Great thread, learned a bit just from reading it.
i believe you have to have 100 posts in order to give "karma"
if only i wasn't 9 days late :P
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Hello all.
SR is a special thing. My guess is that one of the reasons the admins made this newbie forum is to make sure that people know what they are doing before they get started. This will help ensure that a few don't fuck it up for all of us. Due to my low forum presence I am a newbie on the forums, but I assure you that I am not new to SR. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars buying on SR and I have sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of illicit substances on SR. If you have any questions to help you get started please ask. I will answer all reasonable questions to the best of my knowledge,
Sincerely,
FT
Hello FT, first off let me thank you by making this thread because if it's anybody I love to ask questions it's somebody who is experienced in what I am asking !
Unfortunately I can't get BTC from MtGox, the site I was originally going to use because I'm not comfortable with how much information they require. Do you suggest any good alternatives?
Thanks!