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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: Gigles on November 17, 2011, 12:45 am

Title: newb question of getting bitcoins
Post by: Gigles on November 17, 2011, 12:45 am
can you use your silk road bitcoin address as the address you put in at get-bitcoin.com?

as of yet I haven't been able to figure out how to download/use the bitcoin wallet thing, so I was just making dwolla-->mtgox-->SR address transfers.. but they are so slow, so i'm trying to use get-bitcoin.

any helpful advice (hopefully that spells this out for me) would be much appreciated.
Title: Re: newb question of getting bitcoins
Post by: CrunchyFrog on November 17, 2011, 01:42 am
Quote from: Gigles
can you use your silk road bitcoin address as the address you put in at get-bitcoin.com?...
Yes you can.

However, many people here -- although not all -- would recommend leaving your coins in a tumbler or online-wallet (e.g., instawallet [ instawallet.org ]) for *at least* several hours before transferring to SR.  Others think that's just way too paranoid to even consider.  That extra step -- the tumbler/wallet -- might be important if you purchased your coins in a way that could be linked back to you *and* you think SR might be compromised by LE.
Title: Re: newb question of getting bitcoins
Post by: Gigles on November 17, 2011, 02:17 am
Thanks for your helpful reply!
Title: Re: newb question of getting bitcoins
Post by: Sobchak on November 17, 2011, 02:21 am
I agree with Crunchy, it'd be prudent to send the coins through a wallet or 2, especially if you used any option other than cash deposit at get-bitcoin.