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Does anybody know if they got hit? It's a second day they are down, my hands are starting to shake! :)

I have no idea what's going on but I haven't been able to access the site since Thursday evening.

EDIT: Is it possible that they changed their URL again? 

i don't think they're down or even got busted. i think they just get to popular that they get to many users... i recently saw an article about silk road in a newspaper :D

To many for what?
Operating technically?
Stay anonymous?
Deal with security?
What do You mean?

This has happened before but usually it doesn't take that long to be able to log on, but I can't even get onto the site itself.

operating technically

So is this a problem everyone is having then?  Sorry, but this is so fucking irritating!  >:(  I mean, really? Almost 48 hours and the fucking page can't even load?

 >:( they fuckn around on all of us  >:(

i was able to get on friday morning about 11am pst then i tried to go back about 20 mins later n it was done. ever since ive tried getting to the site like 5000 times no dice. anyone seen this happen before? how long she usually down for i would have assumed 24hrs for maintenance but its pretty much been that. n some of you say you havnt been able to get on since tuesday thats quite some time

I was on yesteday.... It's sporadic downtime.... I think it depends on the load of the site.... Probably only made to handle so much at once....

yes but if thats true everyone has been off the site for some time shouldnt it have reset or something? everyone should make their fuckn orders instead of sitting on there staring at shit they cant buy... quit window shoppin.

I was on a few times yesterday.. I am trying to log on now.. I find you have to hit retry about 10 times sometimes to get to the login screen.



Only thing I ever dare order anymore are single grams of hashes and oils.....

why is that u scuuurrrred?

no because I have access to all the high quality marijuana I want locally at a fraction of the price...


I like the extra's as a treat....

BitInstant's business must be suffering big time.

oh i dont use i do the other. n not weed either. who would order weed online i live in bc we got the best buds in da world

that blackmarket reloaded is cool llooking... Just checking that out now.. I see some vendors from SR that moved or are vending on both sites.....



Well I live in Ontario and I really doubt there is any quality difference between the indoor stuff grown in both parts of Canada.

but i did happen to see something pretty slick on there. a cartridge for an ecig and it had grand daddy purp oil in it. that looked pretty nice

exactly what i was talking about, it simply got to popular to handle the amount of users.

That, or the owner thought 20 million was enough for a nest egg and decided to say fuck it.

Those ecig things are stupid.... waste of money....

what is blackmarket w/e u talkin bout is it encrypted like sr? how do i find the link



btw "blazr" if that a pic of ur girlfriend she hot bhahaha

what is blackmarket reloaded? is it encrypted? where do i find this link

I always thought that was a pic of Blazr herself.... I am that gullible that I believe everything I see :P....

very well could be but i thought hot girls dont go on the computer other than twitter n instagram. they spend their time doing their makeup n suckin my d

what is blackmarket reloaded is it encrypted? is it safe like sr? how do i find the link

There are some smart attractive girls..... :)

yeah what was the blackmarket url, would be interesting to check. Is it shared wallet as well?
I use them only for mixing coins anyway, so doesn't matter as long as it is also shared wallet and gets some use

no its not a shared wallet FUCK i sent all my coins to sr today right before it went down for me now their all on there n i have no way to access them. good one. anyone know when that pos site will be back up

they're working on it..... DPR said lots of new users flooding in..... they're working on the issues.

That's! Wow, it must be an impressive effect.  :o

sr is unreachable as of november 10th 11:46am est

I posted a quote from DPR on another thread here:


It's due to a huge amount of new users... They're working on it.....

I haven't been able to access the site in over 5 days now, and of the first 2 of those days, I've been limited to the login page only which results in a connection reset everytime. #Fuark

I was on yesterday.....

for me it works at the moment :)

Cool, I'll give it a try...

It's a picture of Catherine Wayne. You guys must be new to the interwebs.  ;)

On topic - how do people usually find the onion address for SR if it changes? Does it change regularly?

No, it doesn't really change all that often....

Just google Silkroad url and you'll find it rather easily.

I'll just leave this here, since you guys made me go watch it for the first time in several years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMLrA_0O5I

has anyone figured out aprox. when SR will be accessible once again

Haha funny video.. But yea I hope SR goes back up soon I just placed a large order in but I think they got all the information to send it out before the site crashed. I wish DPR would directly say something somehow.

I wouldn't be concerned.. Give it some time......

Relax:

http://Linking to illegal sites is forbidden. If you bypass this censorship, you will be banned./index.php?topic=70572.0


Quote from the SR forum:

"I am so sorry to leave you guys hanging for so long wondering what is going on with the site today. Let me just make everything clear and reassure you all that Silk Road has NOT been compromised, DPR has NOT been busted, and EVERYTHING IS OKAY!

Yes, we are having some technical difficulties. We have been making some serious overhauls and changes to the system, server, and website. While I cannot tell you exactly what is wrong today, I can assure you that we will fix it and have it back up soon. By soon, I mean I would be shocked if we didn't have it back up by Monday.

Please, I beg of you, don't start spreading any unnecessary rumors that will surely stir up chaos, fear, and confusion amongst out community.

..."

Still down for everybody?

yup

Good luck with that.

He forgot to mention 'rage'...'absolute rage'...Get your shit together dude because there's already competition out there...

Hi SR Staff.

Could ya pls provide a reliable ETA for the service to be back up?

I'm a long time SR buyer & IT professional.

Do ya need some help?

If I can help & keep both our security intact, I will assist.

Regards.

doc

Hmmm... Pot now legal in a couple states and SR goes down from too much traffic... Couldn't be related...

Which means BTC value goes up, no?

SR is now responding. Yip-fuckin'-ee.

Says down for maintenance but at least a page loads with SR Logo.

They're getting there.

Legalizing marijuana can lead to long-term decrease in recreational users :) Take Netherlands for example, one coffee shop owner said: "90% of my business comes from (British but others too) tourist".. Ahhh poor silkroad should've seen that coming :/

Hopefully its working now   :-\

~Reall blue

For now, I believe so. My understanding: Is it's legal to have a small amount, and grow up to 6 plants. The next step is to figure out how to legalize selling it. So you can smoke it, but you can't buy it... SR becomes a great option.

I think you're on the wrong forum...

I still can't connect whatsoever, this the same for everyone?

Yep, these stupid fuckers took a step back instead of forward.

SR Staff are apparently, monitoring these posts so probably NOT on wrong forum.
Thanks very much.
doc

Use silkroadvb5piz3r.onion as URL.

Leave out /index.php at end as no pointer enabled to the "index.php" file.

If you enter the url without the /index.php at end, you will then see the notice about "back up ASAP".

"Censorship"?

These posts are crap.

I wouldn't bother pissing on a "censored" site.

We should ALL abandon this crap site as it looks like they may be in kahoots with the lowest of lowlife filth, the fucking scumbags known as the DEA.

Great so this will be your last post right?  As others have pointed out you likely have the wrong forum.


We are right behind you.  Lead the way.
Of course if this site was run by the DEA wouldn't it make sense to ALLOW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)) links to prohibited content.  ???

sheesh

So do vendors have their own sort of website or something of that sort with SR?  In other words, could vendors still access the site despite the fact that buyers can't?

Sure hope so.

Well, they would be 'shocked' if it still wasn't fixed by Monday.

God i hope it comes back sharpish. Any more updates?

a lot of people are going into withdrawal around this here thread ;-P

Nov 13, still down :(

Even if they get this back up, I hope a massive influx of new users is not a trend that will eventually lead to the sites downfall. More users means more publicity means more pressure on investigators.

The more public awareness the more fire under the governments ass to shut down the site.

...the more people to find out about Bitcoin and to possibly find it a good alternative to avoid governments' intrusive and draconian ways.

Someone on the SR forum started a thread wanting Silkroad to add member ship fee's for buyers... something small 2-3 BTC for new account


It would get rid of the kids that are buying next to nothing, or just showing all their friends

and also drive a lot of potential customers to the competition.  ;)

I'm curious.  Why do you care?

Because I like the silk road setup better than most other black markets on tor and I like to be able to purchase plants from the same guy.

Finally some hope. Quick question though, would it be foolish to withdraw and send over coins while it's in this state, or would it be more apt to wait to send over when it's fully reopened?

Wait.  The receiving addresses may have changed.

Should be fully operational in a few hours as right now only vendors can log in as DPR says in his statement.

It's all good now! Enjoy it :)

Down right now, and since some hours.
Also, I was online before the down and It wasn't allowing me to buy, I made a withdrawn of one btc, the btc was sent, as today, seven hours later, I haven't received it yet.
 :-\

Yeah definitely not back on for me. But it WAS on before? Was the interface the same?

Yes. It was like 9 hours before. But It didn't allowed me to buy. It allowed me to do a withdrawn, that was reflected into the Silkroad interface, but the bitcoin was never sent.
I have really bad luck, the day I just put 15 btc in to buy some shit.. That's the day It's down.  :-[ Hope that is ON again. With the money they win, It doesn't make sense to do a take all and run.
Well, only if the police were very near to catch them, or something like that. Hope that it came back online soon.

It was working just fine yesterday... I extracted some funs without issue....

still not working and they said they will be very suprised if its not back by Monday (yes the Monday that passed)

Keep trying... You'll get on eventually.....

Ahhhh, Can`t get high today?  ;)

It takes a while.. You have to continue hitting "Try Again"


It'll eventually let you on...

I have been doing that all day. It's working for you right now ? Are you able to extract funds or buy ?

I think you're right.. It's really down... Worse than before...

I just got the forum to load.. So We can assume that is some scalability/resources/technical.. dificulties.
There are plenty of topics about it, as I can see.

I think the DDOS theory gains validity by the minute.

Yes, I think/hope the same. Anyway, I don't know why DPR doesn't make at least a short and brief communicate about what is happening.

You'd think 22 million would at least buy a half decent site or at least have a more motivated staff!  >:(

There is also the trust issue.  One just can't hire anyone to work on a cladestine website, now can one?  I didn't think that a DDOS attack was possible against a hidden service, or is all of Tor under assault?

Possibly a mixture of both...

There is a brief rise in the 50kb transfer measure but nothing out of the ordinary. I can't tell.
https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html

This is one way the feds can step up the fight without anyone really noticing. I wonder if it is related to losing WA and CO...

Well, the bitcoin I withdrawn yesterday It's here now. Also, I see the login screen. Trying to log in now. (The window appears, but I don't seem to be able to log.. anyway, this is Torland, and It just came to live. So I suppose that this is enought good news  ;D )
So, mainly we have silkroad online again.  :D

I can also confirm this, i'm logged in as of now. Things seem to back to normal; hopefully.

TOR DDOS? That would be awesome :)

Well. I can't buy yet. It say to me the same as yesterday. Log out and log in. I do it, and I can't buy anyway.  :-\
I will try tomorrow morning.. Hope that It works.  ;D

BTC price jumps, looks like people are able to buy their drugs again.

I've not tested buying anything yet as my personal vendors don't have any active listings, but nothing seems to be different or buggy for me. I am free to explore the site and pretty fast speeds if i'm honest. But yeah, we'll see how it turns out.

I just tested with another product and It worked. So, all It's OK.

Glad to see it's back up and running. It seemed to be working yesterday but it kept logging me out and the captcha part of the login screen wasn't working properly but was able to login and finalize and order I'd received prior to it going offline. They're also limiting new registrations so the problem doesn't reoccur.

Was that why it was down, too many new registrations? How is it being limited?

Haha I dont know why I find it ironic that there is a Silk Road thread here, it being illegal substances and all but I guess since it takes bit coins thats how it works. I read into it and it seems like an interesting venture. Anyone who made a site similar to SR that could generate similar traffic would make so much money

SR is not about illegal stuff. Yes, it's used extensively for drugs, but there are a lot of legit sales on it too.

depends what it is..... Stuff like Iboga or Ibogain is completely legal in Canada but illegal in a lot of other places in the world...

Isn't the only illegal marketplace accepting BTC. Black Market Reloaded, HackBB and I've come across a few store front style sites selling drugs, credit card details and even contract killings.

Eventually some idiot seller is going to get busted, the cops will catch on he was using silk road, and the idiot seller will have a list of
everyone he sent drugs to. Watch the fall out from it as people realize it might not be as safe as they thought and get hit not only with
drug charges but other related felony charges due to using the mail system across state lines... Cant you picture a bunch of boxes and
envelopes with drugs in them with address labels on the top waiting to be mailed the next day? lol.. i can. Or better yet the drug seller
will cooperate with police to keep taking orders and racking up more and more names until they have a cool 100 or so customers to bust.

But eh.. this is bitcoin. It will take several fucks up before people think.

That's not a risk that is inherent to Bitcoin transactions, or even to Silk Road.  So that isn't a Bitcoin issue to solve.  If drugs is what you want, you are taking the risks.  Using bitcoin does reduce those risks in some ways, but wise consumers should be aware that Bitcoin isn't some magic pill.

hm after working just fine yesterday, today it doesn't accept my pass regardless how many times i try...and i just deposited some BTCs

Same, i'm experiencing this as well. Going to leave it for a few hours.

And again, SR seems to be down for me, won't connect at all.

yeah same, i am unable to connect :o

Prob the us govt doing a sting. Dont worry. Will be back up shortly.

sr is getting to much attention that's probably why it's having some issues
i mean even a tv show mentioned it the other week...

not the first time. Other black market sites available. It will continue to get more popular.


Buying drugs in the mail is more convenient and safer IMO.

yeah i actually use bmr

it definitely is more convenient ^^, as for the safety, it pretty much depends on what you're buying exactly
but then for our sake, the post companies can't verify the content of everything sent... yet :D

The site has moved to silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.to.....

Site moved to silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.to...

Just put .to on the end of the website

What exactly does that do?

If you don't know, then assume it makes it so you access the onion/tor network through a 3rd party web-to-tor proxy service (onion.to) that is probably either run by the FBI/DEA - or collects your login info, or spoofs websites - for profit.

It removes the need for TOR, but also causes you to no longer be fully anonymous.

Don't do it if you actually buy or sell on the site. Or actually, don't use it at all unless you're only visiting sites with no illegal content.. But yea, good luck finding those.

Ah like tor2web. No thanks.

Anyone getting access?

check the silkroad reddit for the real URL..  anyone saying it's changed is probably lying/scamming.

I'm saying I typed in silkroad on google and it gave me that address the I typed that address into my torbrowser, not attempting to make everyone not anonymous

Now the regular silkroad is back up.....weird