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                    <h2>Bitcoin Upgraded</h2>
<p>Our bitcoind has been updated to the latest verson, and wallet balances have been restored. We have disabled spending unconfirmed change, which should insulate us from the transaction malleability attacks that brought down MtGox and SR2.</p>
<h2>Silkroad 2 Shutdown</h2>
<p>Fuck JPMorgan, fuck the NSA, and fuck transaction malleability. We will never die. United as one, divided by zero. Expect us.</p>
<h2>New Features</h2>
<p>Recently added functionality:</p>
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    <li><strong>Ability to hold orders:</strong> If you complete an order with a 0 balance, and send bitcoin to your account within 24 hours, the order will be placed in "Pending Deposit" status, and will automatically be completed for you once your account receieves enough bitcoin. Now you don't have to keep checking to see if your account has been loaded in order to complete your order.</li>
    <li><strong>Litecoin Support:</strong> We are happy to announce the launch of Litebay. Litebay is a clone of the Freebay, but with the payment processor hooked up hooked up to litecoin. You can access it by visiting: <a href="http://litebay7vp5pm77f.onion/" target="_blank">litebay7vp5pm77f.onion</a>. LTC to the moon!</li>
    <li><strong>Domestic Only filter:</strong> Set a home country in your account settings, and you can filter by Domestic (your country to your country only) and Ships to My Country.</li>
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<h2>Upcoming Features</h2>
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        <p>Confirmed to-do list:</p>
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            <li>Open source</li>
            <li>Wallet clearing (immediately send bitcoin from a finalized order to an external account)</li>
            <li>Two factor authentication (Google Authenticator)</li>
            <li>Delete account option</li>
            <li>Add ability to have multiple shipping options to an item</li>
            <li>Add ability to have multiple price points for an item (eg. 1g=$20, 5g=$100, so that item reviews are grouped)</li>
            <li>Forum (offsite)</li>
            <li>Message outbox</li>
            <li>Display current exchange rate</li>
            <li>Ability to lock item price to USD (quote system)</li>
            <li>Add more kittens and puppies to the captcha</li>
            <li>Clearnet tutorial on how to access Freebay</li>
            <li>Make "send message" respond to usernames in addition to bitmessage addresses</li>
            <li>Add badges to Sales and Orders tab to # of items requiring action</li>
            <li>Change order loop to use walletnotify instead</li>
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        <p>Other features under consideration:</p>
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            <li>Tutorial on how to buy bitcoin / fund your account anonymously</li>
            <li>Tutorial on how to stay safe when ordering (eg. using PGP, not signing for packages)</li>
            <li>Hire someone to do PR</li>
            <li>Distributed P2P marketplace (how can we do this securely?)</li>
            <li>Automatic image resize (requires additional libraries, increases risk)</li>
            <li>Two factor authentication (requires additional libraries)</li>
            <li>Merge Freebay / Litebay (possible UX implications)</li>
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<h2>Sheep Marketplace / Black Market Reloaded Shutdown</h2>
<p>As some of you may know, Sheep Marketplace and Black Market Reloaded have simultaneously shut down their operations. We welcome all vendors from these marketplaces - as always, we have open registration. Any vendor can join and sell their products on our site.</p>
<p>We are highly disappointed in the way these two vendors shut down their operations before departing. Sheep Marketplace, in particular, shut down the ability of vendors to withdraw funds from their accounts and allowed sales to continue, leaving buyers and vendors in the dark for over a week while allowing sales to continue. Once they shut down, they took all the funds with them - leaving the vendors holding the short end of the stick.</p>
<p>A few days after Sheep Marketplace withdrew from the market, Black Market Reloaded shut down their services, as they were unable to handle the sudden influx of refugees from Sheep. This left the community with two options: the new Silkroad 2, which was only a few months old and rumored to be run by the feds; and Freebay, which was two weeks young (our aim was to provide a marketplace with a "Ships to / from" filter and "Sort By Rating", a feature that the original SR had that both Sheep / BMR lacked).</p>
<p>As always, vendors from either of these sites are welcome to join our cause. We promise to keep this site up and running as best as we can. If you haven't already done so, check out our <a href="/about">About page</a> to see some of the security features we have in place to protect this community.</p>
<h2>Silkroad Shutdown</h2>
<p>Any vendors who have previously had an account on Silkroad are welcome to join our network. We have an open registration system - anyone can join and add items to our marketplace.</p>

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