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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2012, 06:41 am »
I tried to install it few times yesturday but had compatibility popups, redownloaded today and it works. Time to have a computer checkup i gues.
Thx for the info. Gonna see if can get some coin :)

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Silk Road, an online anonymous marketplace, uses Bitcoin.[14][58] In a 2011 letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Drug Enforcement Administration, senators Charles Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia called for an investigation into Bitcoin and Silk Road.[58] Schumer described the use of bitcoins at Silk Road as a form of money laundering.[10] Consequently Amir Taaki of Intersango, a UK-based bitcoin exchange, put out a statement calling for regulation of Bitcoin exchanges by law enforcement.[59][60] The hacking organization "LulzSec" accepted donations in Bitcoin, having said that the group "needs bitcoin donations to continue their hacking efforts".[61][62]

Now bitcoin seems to need real personal information. How safe is it?
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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2012, 06:54 am »
Based on speed of service till i get my BTC in my account, i think i'm going to use someone through the money services here at SR. sounds pretty quick.

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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2012, 01:39 pm »
I've been doing this for what, 7 months or so now, and only just realised that I DON'T need to send my public key to the vendor along with my encrypted address? Woe is me... They must have been thinking WTF is this guy doing every time? I really wish someone had told me. I mean, I have ordered from Ivory about 10 times now!  :-[

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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2012, 02:09 pm »
Also, you should NEVER access MtGox with the Tor browser! Each time you have to do any of the steps with MtGox, close Tor and use your regular browser.
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« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2012, 06:46 pm »
Hello, I'm new to Silk Road and would like to buy Bitcoins so I can be able to pay and buy stuff.  I'm following your guide, but since I'm from Europe I can't use dwolla.  What can I do to buy Bitcoins? I've been searching around the internet and I can't understand what I need to do since I'm a bit of a newbie to banking jargon and whatnot.. Is Mt.Gox even an option?

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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2012, 09:12 pm »
You should also recommend that instead of sending the coins directly from MtGox to Sr that they should run them through a mixer first.  I use bitcoinfog.

For those not in the States you might want to look at intersango.com. 

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« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2012, 09:40 pm »
This may help new sr customers.

My SR Journey so far.

Hi my heady friends, I thought I would give my experiences on my SR journey so far to give new customers some idea of how to proceed. I heard of this site from a BBC radio report one Sunday night and decided to give it a try, I have been a member for 1 month and spent approx £700 GBP.

I found and downloaded tor with no problems and joined SR (you will not find SR without Tor) the only problem being  my oversight (not putting a pin/password in) but SR admin sorted this out quickly.

On entering the site it was like walking into a sweet shop as a kid, all that beautiful bud and I wanted to try them all, but I had no btc. So my first stop down the SR was the btc exchangers. Not many UK exchangers but decided to try drcashancarry. This took a leap of faith as I had to deposited cash (£300) into a bank account, and then wait for the btc to appear. After waiting 24 hrs for the btc i feared the worst, but the btc was there in my account the next day (give vendors time) and I have had another similar transaction since, his communication could have been better but I could not give a fuck as long as the btc turns up which it did. Another way I have obtained btc which is useful for UK buyers is using a paysafe card. This is available at most UK newsagents/shops who have a PayPoint sign displayed. You give the shop keeper your money(£100 pound limit but you can have more than one) and they give you a receipt with 16 figure code on it. Then back to SR and find a paysafe  to btc  exchanger, I have used  Amsterdamshop  for this with no problems, just send your code and wallet number via pm and your btc will be deposited  in good time. If your  shop keeper is unaware of paysafe cards print this following page and get them to scan the bar code:
 http://www.paysafecard.com/uk/buy/sales-outlets/pin-print/
So now you have your btc who to buy from. If product is needed quickly go for domestic vendor but if you can wait try overseas. Buyer Beware- make sure you research  a potential vendor , check out feedback  first and then go to the forum to see what other buyers have to say about product and service. I did not do this last week with a new vendor to SR and may have been scammed  but I will give them a week (domestic) before I out them. Remember 5/5 Finalised Early means nothing  until it is updated ,  try small amounts  first  so potential loss is small (not like I did going for 7g off this new vendor). I have 26 transactions so far and this is the first suspect vendor but  my fault for not doing my research. So to the good vendors who I have purchased from with no complaints;
happyhippy - Good quality strong green and quick delivery (AK47)
freshtouch  -  Not the strongest  weed  but pleasant smoke, maybe my expectations were to high having tried thai stick in the past which blew my fucking head off (wild Thailand)
Dutchshop -  Standard Hash (commercial afghan hash)
Amsterdamgoods - Stronger than the standard hash (quality primera hash)
Soulrebel - Good looking buds nice pleasant smoke (8 mile high). I prefer 2nd  purchase (grapefruit)
Planta - Sweet tasting weed  pleasant smoke (sugar punch)
Marijuanaismymuse - top quality weed , beautiful looking bud . Wish he would move to the UK because shipping costs a lot but worth it if you want a treat.(purple Krush)
Onestopshop - Good looking bud  and nice pleasant smoke (orange bud)
Cloneuk - Nice looking bud and pleasant smoke (Kush berry)
sweetLeafLondon -  Nice tight bud, a little on the damp side but a good smoke, quick UK delivery(casey jones)
Organic buds - dry tight bud , good smoke (chronic)
Greengiant - top qulity hash ( cheese bubble hash)



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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2012, 01:09 pm »
Thanks OldToker for the link! :)
And dayday, good insight and reviews

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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2012, 02:53 pm »
Dayday, you might want to re-think your method of getting Bitcoins.  The Vendors on this site that will sell Bitcoins charge a premium price (10-15 percent I believe).  If you follow the guidance given using Mt.Gox you'll be paying no more than five percent even with the cost of a mixer. Learn the Bitcoin System and you'll save yourself a lot of money, or better yet, be able to buy a lot more drugs. 

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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2012, 06:53 pm »
15) Copy the big block of text it creates (should look similar to a PGP key.) You have encrypted your address using the seller's Public PGP key. Nobody else is able to decrypt the address unless they have the password

16) Go back to the Silk Road and click on your shopping cart

17) Select shipping method and click go

18) Where it says:
"Please enter your name and address
as it would be written on a letter:"
Paste the big block of text you copied from step 15.

19) Enter your PIN and click "Place Order"

20) Wait for your order to arrive

It's so brilliant, I love it.

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« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2012, 08:25 pm »
Hey Folks,

Try this and see if you are as pleased as I was.  Go to www.wm-central.com. This is a Russian money changer site. I know I was skeptical about anything Russian, nothing personal. Any way you proceed through the GUI and the first thing it ask you is how many bitcoins you want. You fill out the rest of the information and get the order number. Then you send WU or MG to them and they deposit you coinage to your wallet. This to me was better than www.get-bitcoin.com. THERE WAS NO FEE, AND THE COINAGE WAS IN MY ACCOUNT WITH IN 24 Hr. This was my first try with these people. I am not trying to put anyone down but the money changers here are OVER worked. Did I mention there was NO FEE... I ordered 25 bitcoins was told the dollar amount to send, at the time it was about 5.17 USD/coin. The coolest thing about it was you tell them how much you need and they tell you what to send. No more converting and taking out the Changer's fees. It was really cool and NO FEE's.


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« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2012, 12:22 am »
Hey, guys. I'm new and I really have no problem waiting a few weeks before I can make a purchase. Just curious about dwolla. Is it reliable to use the same account everytime I want to make a deposit or should I use throwaways? Also, would the money I'm depositing come straight from my bank account or should I find some other source to deposit money from?

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Re: A Guide to Using the Silk Road, PGP and Buying Bitcoins
« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2012, 08:25 pm »
Dear, Fred i would like to thank you for your impressive and detailed guide.

Although I have few question about PGP encryption. Help a newbie, Please.

#1. I need to generate a new Key Pair, what is this for? ( I keep reading your guide over and over, and it just doesn't pop in my head)

#2. Should I use a fake Name and email to create the KEY Pair, or will this backfire on me at the end? (In case I need to recover acc or what at PGP)

#3. Is the "Pass-phrase" your password on GPG? And How many Numbers and letter should I use in "Passp-hrase" at the Least, to be protected.

Thanks

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« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2012, 01:34 am »
Dear, Fred i would like to thank you for your impressive and detailed guide.

Although I have few question about PGP encryption. Help a newbie, Please.

#1. I need to generate a new Key Pair, what is this for? ( I keep reading your guide over and over, and it just doesn't pop in my head)

#2. Should I use a fake Name and email to create the KEY Pair, or will this backfire on me at the end? (In case I need to recover acc or what at PGP)

#3. Is the "Pass-phrase" your password on GPG? And How many Numbers and letter should I use in "Passp-hrase" at the Least, to be protected.

Thanks

#1 A key pair is a chunk of data PGP uses to en- and decrypt messages. As the word pair says it has two parts: a public and a private one. You will usually only see ever public keys around and only the creator of the key pair should have the private part (makes sense, doesn't it? Still some brains post their private key here on the forum). Now PGP works in a way, that you ENcrypt messages for a person using their public key, but only the possessor of both the secret key and respective passphrase can DEcrypt it. So if you encrypted your message and forgot what you wrote, you can only decrypt it again if you picked yourself as one of the recipients (PGP allows encryption for multiple recipients).

#2 there is no such thing as a PGP acccount and you can have as many keys as you wish - for anything SR related I strongly advise to use you real data, so law enforcement does not have too hard of a job. seriously, did you actually consider that? Don't know what you are going to do here, but for buying substances that are illegal under most jurisdictions I want my real name as far from anything connected as possible. You can create another key using your real name to look cool in front of your friends sending them encrypted messages though (after you explained 'em how to use that stuff ofc).

#3 your PGP passphrase is the password, that protects your PGP keypair even when your private key has been exposed. In a nutshell all messages encrypted FOR you (not from you!) are as safe as your passphrase is long. In general I recommend picking passwords or -phrases as long and complex as the respective system and your brain can handle. PGP can handle quite long passphrases, so if you know a long ballad by heart, go for it.

Hopes this helps a bit understanding how PGP works :)
« Last Edit: March 23, 2012, 01:38 am by unnamed42 »

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« Reply #29 on: March 23, 2012, 04:18 am »
Dear, Unnamed42

Wow! Thank You so much for answering my questions. You made the answers very clear to me.

I will keep on practicing using PGP Keys and encryption.

And I hope my questions will be useful for other future SR members.

Again, Thank You Unnamed42.