What are /r/Darknet_Markets' favorite Products & Services?

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Honestly, what you did is fine... putting one or two intermediate wallets between Coinbase (or wherever you obtained your coins) and a DNM, even without the tumbling service, is OK.

The truth is that random buyers really do not require "Vendor"-level OPSEC. There's no need to trash your computer. Buyers get into trouble only through vendor screw-ups, i.e. bad stealth, package profiling, and the fallout from that (controlled delivery). Blockchain analysis simply doesn't come into play for buyers. Even people sending directly from Coinbase to DNM, the worst that happens is Coinbase might -- might -- eventually close your account.

TAILS is its own operating system that runs off a flash drive. Tor on your regular OS is fine for buying. It's like the above, no buyer in DNM history has been caught solely because they didn't use TAILS. You can download it and play around, but it adds some complexity to certain things.

> I'm afraid that when it added the fee I might have sent more than I had available

You can't send more bitcoins than you actually have. It's not a bank account that you can overdraft. heh.

I've always used Electrum for my wallets, look into it... but anyway... an appropriate fee right now to get into the next 1 or 2 blocks would be about 0.001 BTC (that's $2.50 or so).

Blockchain.info, as a wallet, frankly sucks... because of re-sending unconfirmed transactions automatically like you mentioned, and not letting users manually set a specific fee to begin with. Either the coins will ultimately be returned to your originating wallet soon, or if it keeps trying to automatically re-send, you may just have to write Blockchain.info support.

As far as how to determine optimal fee at any time, go to this fee estimator. It shows fees in "satoshis per byte". A basic transaction is about 250 bytes. One satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC. Some math is then involved... ;-)

You can use Coinbase, just put one or two privately-owned intermediate wallets between Coinbase and the dark market.

To do that, if you're using a desktop, I recommend Electrum. If you're on Android/mobile, try Mycelium in the app store.

Alternatively, you can always just use a bitcoin tumbler as the intermediate wallet. Coinbase --> Tumbler --> Dark Market, and let the tumbler do the work for you. The best tumbler is probably Grams Helix Light, Tor required.

If you don't want to use Coinbase, I suppose you can try LocalBitcoins. They couldn't care less where you send your coins. :)

yeah, that is surprising actually. TunnelBear must have it together. Other chrome proxy type services like "SwitchySharp, and a lot of other ones leak your real ip. If you want to take an extra step towards anonymity, spoof your user agent string so the website you are using doesn't know what browser or operating system you are using.

No, you can't use the normal "clearnet" web for this. I mean, you technically can, but it's a fast track to your future arrest.

You need to download Tor, set it up, and then "set up shop" on an established darknet market.

Read the sidebar of /r/DarknetMarketsNoobs if you're new to all this.

If there are, they'll all be on AlphaBay... the other markets take only Bitcoin.

There may be a way to filter by type of crypto accepted, not sure though.

P.S. You can convert ETH --> BTC or vice versa instantly at ShapeShift

Quote from their website:

"Zero Access to User Data Your encrypted data is not accessible to us

ProtonMail's zero access architecture means that your data is encrypted in a way that makes it inaccessible to us. Data is encrypted on the client side using an encryption key that we do not have access to. This means we don't have the technical ability to decrypt your messages, and as a result, we are unable to hand your data over to third parties. With ProtonMail, privacy isn't just a promise, it is mathematically ensured. For this reason, we are also unable to do data recovery. If you forget your password, we cannot recover your data."

Seriously, it's right here - https://protonmail.com/security-details

I can't tell if you just wrote that to be relevant in this thread or you maybe hallucinated a paragraph and it read that. Either way there's no mention of that on the website.

And I am assuming the PGP is the ecription used to send personal information? Does each vendor provide a unique one? Also how much protection do I need for small purchases? Currently I am browsing for information on my phone with a vpn, using TunnelBear, and I do have tor on my phone for searching but I plan on buying a burner laptop for the actual purchase. I've heard you shouldn't use a vpn and tor together, what precautions should I take when I place the order and where should I transfer my bit from? I have coinbase now but I've heard that's unwise.

SwissVPN- just came across them, they look as good as NordVPN. and swiss are renowned for their in the end (just before going with NordVPN) I came across swiss VPN and I will go with them!

Does not matter even if you have it memorised. Even a simple letter change can trick the human brain even if it's a letter. I never had a problem with paid VPN's that claim they have no logs. I personally use ExpressVPN and they have a massive choice in locations and network encrytion. If you are too sceptical still atleast use something like a remote desktop connection to another computer or a VPS or something and then use Tor on that. I would be more afraid of the police doing a middle man attack on my network and collecting login info and getting access to computers then worrying about a vpn watching me. OpenVPN is also a great source. I think the most important part is using some software to atleast encrypt your connection. Just a suggestion. I had the police raid me in my country before because of ordering on DNM. Thank God I used tails on a micro sd and hidden it and had an encrypted network connection. Simple things I did like turn off SSID of my network, turn off WPS and use a ethernet wire may have saved my poor ass.

as far as I can see, they advertise the same way other VPNs do like IPVanish and NordVPN.

I havent read bad stuff about Nord.

I have read in more then 3 places bad stuff about IPVanish.

I havent read anything bad about SwissVPN.

Im no techno guru so as far as I can see they are as good as anyone else.

Now can you be serious and for the benefit of this post and others looking for security and anonymity recommend which VPN to use and why?

update for the post: my research has told me that NordVPN are good.

I have seen them twice recommended on DN and not heard anything bad about them (as appose to hearing something bad about a VPN provider e.g. IPVanish)

OK I take your point on SwissVPN. I basically got so bored of reading so much about VPNs I lost track a little bit. Can you recommend a VPN apart from NordVPN? Do you know of AspireVPN?

BTW- your link is about a law for surveillance within the country for terrorism. I am not a terrorist or anything remotely close to that. Switzerland is still, among developed nations, one of the best for privacy. this one law to spy on terrorists doesn't compromise that or change the fact that historically they have always been neutral, had better privacy etc

anyway , it would be better for the post and for people if you could recommend a VPN (?)

its funny i've read more then once that IPVanish is false advertising; that its doesn't own any of their servers and by US Law they have to keep logs (so again they are false advertising).....I don't think I will even attempt to use IPVanish. I'm researching aspire VPN which I read on a thread was good. I'll see if they own their own servers and don't keep logs (some in EU don't and if they are swiss they have their own privacy laws)

IPVanish advertises that it owns its own servers and doesn't its a tier 2 if not tier 3 provider and has to keep logs by USA law, so need to be double sure about the VPN which says it doesn't keep logs! I'm thinking a swiss one as they are known for their privacy! So far I have 2 VPN's to research; NordVPN and AspireVPN. Hopefully one of these 2 does the trick. BTW sorry, but what do you mean by;

• stay away from non-free software like you mean like stay away from free anti-virus AVG type software?

• sometimes you can use account numbers like 0 or do you mean? I log in with a random account number and get a few hours free?

Guys just so you know, I've decided VPN is the best route for me. I will research this weekend AspireVPN and NordVPN. Hopefully one of these will do the trick for me. Will keep you guys posted. Any recommendations on VPNs please share, and also any info on how to find out that a VPN is truly not keeping logs (apart from operational necessary ones, which I've read before they have to keep some logs), truly keeps your identity hidden and owns its own servers

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asia.coins.mobile. Give this a try it gives you a virtual debit credit card, you can send & pay with bitcoin. Don't mess with the DNM lil sis...there's always alternatives. Peace.