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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: peter72 on March 27, 2012, 02:56 pm
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Hello,
I'm new here and I'd like to order some stuff to my friends address. He'll also buy the bitcoins.
Can he just buy them directly at Mt.Gox and transfer them to my silk road account? How risky is that?
Thanks...
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Nothing risky as afar as I know. Bitcoins are perfectly legal to buy and sell and I've sent coins directly from the exchange to silkroad with no problems. If you are paranoid you could use a tumbler which disguises the origin of the coins and then you send them on to Silk Road.
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If you are paranoid you could use a tumbler which disguises the origin of the coins and then you send them on to Silk Road.
I would personally recommend a tumbler, if only for peace of mind. I actually just posted about this in another thread only seconds ago:
I would continue to send them through another wallet between MtGox and SR. I honestly don't understand the technical intricacies of BTC, but I have read that if anyone were inclined to look at the block chain, they could see that the funds went from MtGox (your name attached) to SR, but wouldn't be able to tell what they're used to buy or where they go from there due to SR's tumbling feature.
As mentioned, BitCoinFog is good, though some people find themselves too impatient for it. Instawallet is probably ok too.
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You could always use a bitcoin exchange that doesn't take ID