Silk Road forums
Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: FauxReal on March 22, 2013, 09:12 am
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I know I can find this info on other posts, but how am I to get to 50 posts without posting anything (and I refuse to post non sequiturs on other threads just to do so).
Supposedly the most popular BTC exchange service is Mt.Gox, but they have a warning about accessing your account from Tor, which defeats the purpose of having BTC in the first place...
So, which exchange(s) allow you the freedom to access your account from Tor?
Cash to BTC is probably the safest way to get into the BTC market, amiright? If so, how does that work? If not, what is?
Is there any good reason to use more than one BTC service, wallet, whatever?
Is the url from the Wiki page seriously the url? I imagined there would be some hidden code or PGP magic involved and that the url is changed daily based on an algorithm only select people know, etc. All the posts I've seen say *yes* but the page does not load for me despite using Tor. Is the site down? When will it be up?
So I just used http://silkroadxmx45vk4.onion/silkroad/home and it worked... but says new registrations are temporarily disabled. Any idea when this will change?
Do you guys suggest purchasing 100% legal things at first to get your ratings up? I haven't even seen the site yet so I don't know what's available but read that there are indeed some legal items sold through here. Do any of you use the site for 100% legal purposes? Do you think telling my friends to use Tor for daily use because it's extremely "secure" will actually help obscure me from the prying eyes of LE?
How are items usually packaged? Can you request sellers to package an item a certain way? For example, I might request an Amazon box because my family and roommates are used to me receiving boxes from Amazon already. Do you actually have (illegal) packages sent to your home address? Does the seller include a return address on packages? If so, what do they usually do?
Thanks in advance to those with patience.
FauxReal
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you can access the freenode irc and join channel #bitcoin-otc once you register and authenticate you can trade btc fairly easy. everybody is pretty nice and will help you. just DO NOT MENTION SR!! they don't like it just be friendly and listen to the people who have been there longer and they will guide to who will buy or sell to you.
hope this helps