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how do you buy bitcoins?
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Date: July 2nd, 2012 10:27 PM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza i can't even figure out how to buy them
is there a way to do this with a wal mart gift card?
https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20290301-step-2-adding-funds |
Date: July 3rd, 2012 8:45 AM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21007678) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 8:56 AM Author: Narrow-minded greedy headpube mad cow disease (wrassler's dad) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21007685) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 8:58 AM Author: racy national doctorate (Cow goes Moo) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21007688) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 9:10 AM Author: Violet 180 Cruise Ship Dingle Berry why do you want to buy bitcoins (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21007702) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 10:16 AM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza buy some addy on silk road (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21007905) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 10:29 AM Author: sable mischievous corn cake I think this market collapsed after the Gawker story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21007981) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 10:56 AM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza what do you mean? website seems to be working (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008090) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:22 PM Author: sable mischievous corn cake how do you do silk road? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008446) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:44 PM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza downloaded a Tor browser, went to whatever address is currently listed on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
have to have bitcoins to actually buy anything though, which I haven't actually figured out how to do without waiting for a month |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:45 PM Author: awkward tanning salon multi-billionaire http://austincut.com/2012/01/silk-road-a-vicious-blow-to-the-war-on-drugs/
Pretty good breakdown in this article (plus it's a good article). |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 1:03 PM Author: comical brilliant abode I dunno if it's that great an article... right in the beginning:
"But it’s not just media-sweetheart drugs like LSD and pot that people are buying. That shit’s easy to get unless you’re underage."
Couldn't be more wrong. Legit LSD is tricky for anyone to cop. And it's easy as hell to get weed when underage. Easier than booze. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:37 PM Author: carnelian parlour hominid yeah bro
gawker has the power to shut down elite computer criminals running a deep web anonymous market from the third world
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:39 PM Author: sable mischievous corn cake no, but the sudden massive interest in an otherwise quiet black market did cause hyperinflation in the bitcoin market and almost certainly led to new law enforcement scrutiny of silk road, you fucking idiot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008524) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:42 PM Author: carnelian parlour hominid "I think this market collapsed"
you were wrong. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:46 PM Author: sable mischievous corn cake this is what i was referring to. not an expert here, just knew the market was disrupted in the last 18 months.
http://nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/2012/01/hyperinflation-in-bitcoinland.html |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:47 PM Author: awkward tanning salon multi-billionaire silk road sellers peg prices to dollars. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008572) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:43 PM Author: awkward tanning salon multi-billionaire 90% of what gets sent through silk road is people like me buying 1/4 ounces of pot or some MDMA pills. A couple of the big accounts will get scrutiny, but it won't be trivial for LE agencies to track. Retail buyers wouldn't be worth it at all.
The much, much worse site will be The Armory. I really, really wish Silk Road hadn't set that up as a sister site. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 10:18 AM Author: awkward tanning salon multi-billionaire use dwolla to fund mt. gox. that's the easiest way, but you have to be verified on both mt. gox and dwolla and have made a deposit in dwolla for 30 days before funding.
you can also make a cash deposit into the bitinstant account at your local bank and send them a picture of the receipt. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 10:19 AM Author: passionate lay wow. that's actually right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21007921) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 10:56 AM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza why do I have to go through so many steps?
no wonder those things are worthless |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:28 PM Author: awkward tanning salon multi-billionaire because it's a currency that few recognize and that doesn't rely on a trusted third-party to back up. it's kind of hard to enter something like that with IRL money--Paypal, credit card processors, etc. think it's scammy.
and basically the only way to "spend" it currently is on porn, drugs, and guns. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:42 PM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza shouldn't that make it difficult to sell? why does that make it difficult to buy? shouldn't they be making it super easy to take my cc and buy $50 worth of bitcoins? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008538) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:46 PM Author: awkward tanning salon multi-billionaire they don't want to deal with a bunch of chargebacks when people who feel they've been somehow duped no longer want their shitcoins (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008568) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:57 PM Author: comical brilliant abode It's actually more about anti-money laundering than it is about chargebacks.
Cash > Prepaid Visa > Bitcoins > Checking account
CC companies want no part of that. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:59 PM Author: awkward tanning salon multi-billionaire you can do that, though. lots of bitcoin distributors accept prepaid debit cards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008625) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 1:09 PM Author: comical brilliant abode I didn't know that. I only did a little bit of scoping on it, and it seemed like the bigger distributors didn't deal in CCs.
I don't know if I'd expect that avenue to last too long. Gov't seemed to be effective in not letting online gambling operations be funded by CCs. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 12:38 PM Author: carnelian parlour hominid because you cant buy heroin and child porn on ebay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008518) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 1:12 PM Author: Cocky shivering station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008692) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 1:11 PM Author: Cocky shivering station this. i'm going to wells fargo to do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008688) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 1:45 PM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza seems like a huge pain in the ass
do tellers know what you're talking about? give you weird looks? |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 1:52 PM Author: Cocky shivering station haven't tried it yet. i'll report back. luckily i live right next to a wells fargo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008941) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 2:00 PM Author: misanthropic floppy giraffe plaza ok cool, let me know (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21008983) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2012 2:33 PM Author: sable mischievous corn cake seconded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#21009217) |
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Date: November 19th, 2013 11:02 PM Author: Self-absorbed fear-inspiring institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1985065&forum_id=2#24473190) |