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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: bonn00 on July 24, 2011, 06:14 am
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Sorry I'm new i got btc from btc4cash but don't know how to get them to Silk Road HELP!
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It can be complex at first, but once you understand how it all works it makes sense.
But I do recommend you don't send straight from btc4cash to SR.
Instead, make your own personal BTC wallet first on an encrypted USB stick, so you can carry your BTC in your pocket/hide them in your underwear drawer/send them to Silk Road etc.
To do this:
1) Download the Bitcoin software, and install it onto an encrypted USB stick. You now have your BTC wallet.
2) Open the software from the USB stick, and leave it running overnight with an Internet connection, so it can connect to the BTC system and download everything it needs to download.
3) Next morning, look for the long string of digits next to a button which says 'Copy to clipboard'. This long strong of digits is one of many addresses which could be used to send money from anywhere, to your wallet.
4) Click the 'Copy to clipboard' button, then go to btc4cash, and look for the option to 'withdraw BTC', or 'send payment' or whatever.
5) Paste the long string of digits into the relevant box on btc4cash, and specify how many BTC you want to send to yourself.
6) Wait an hour or so (you can watch the progress of the transfer in your Bitcoin software). Once you have 6 or more confirmations, your BTC are now in your wallet, and from there you can then carry your USB stick around with you or whatever, or you can transfer your BTC to anywhere else, such as SR.
To transfer to SR from your wallet, go to the link on SR which says 'Account', and then enter an amount into the 'Deposit bitcoins' box and click the button. You will be given another of those long codes. This is the code you will use to send from your wallet to SR.
Copy the code, and go to your own wallet in your Bitcoin software. Click the 'Send Coins' button. You should be able to work out the rest from what you already know.
DO NOT lose the USB stick, because you then lose your wallet and the BTC that are in it. To lessen the potential for that to happen, look on your USB stick for the file 'wallet.dat', and back it up on a different encrypted USB stick, and hide that one at the back of your underwear drawer. That way, you can get your BTC back if you do lose your original USB stick.
This I worked out for myself, I'm sure you could have too but I present it to you in the interests of getting you up and running quickly. HOWEVER, in learning what I now know I also learned about how it works and the basic securities of the thing. You should too.
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Thanks for help but theres no transfer or send payment or anything like that