Quote from: Bizmark13 on March 21, 2015, 09:45:42 AM

Quote from: Natalia_AnatolioPAMM on March 21, 2015, 08:49:30 AM

thanks god they didn't close bitcoin generally. in russia they wanna do it and drugs are the main reason

I don't think Bitcoin is something that can really be "closed". Although I gotta admit the fact that they chose to auction the coins instead of destroying them did give Bitcoin a certain sense of legitimacy.

Quote from: pitham1 on March 21, 2015, 08:54:27 AM

Quote from: Bizmark13 on March 21, 2015, 08:09:36 AM

...to allow people to withdraw their coins?

Once the government identified Ross Ulbricht and had control of the Silk Road servers, why didn't they keep the site open so that people could withdraw their bitcoins? They could have blocked the ability to trade (so as to not facilitate any drug deals) and instead only allow people to log onto their accounts at the site and withdraw their funds to their own Bitcoin addresses.

Funds used in criminal activity... why on earth would the US government allow criminals to take them back?

As I said before, not all of it was criminal. And I don't think people who were simply buying small amounts of drugs for personal use should have their funds confiscated - although I understand that's probably more of a personal moral opinion on my part.

Quote from: calme on March 21, 2015, 08:57:26 AM

Perhaps they should consider running a decentralized Silk Road with taxpayer money in order to keep bullets from flying around in the streets.

I posted a thread a while ago about decentralizing websites. It would work well for sites that regularly prune their content (e.g. online auction sites, imageboards, torrent lists) as well as sites that have low bandwidth and storage requirements (e.g. microblogs). A decentralized Silk Road would be perfect and definitely worthy of implementation. Unfortunately, my programming skills are nowhere near good enough to do it myself and not many other people seem interested in the idea. Sad

Quote from: franky1 on March 21, 2015, 09:33:30 AM

the reason is that you handed funds to a known blackmarket, so dont expect a refund.

lesson to learn, stick to legitimate product websites in future

I never actually used Silk Road myself. And besides, I only really got into Bitcoin a few months after it was seized anyway.

they do wanna forbid using, trading and doing anything with bitcoin in russia! all the websites would be closed etc. and i case you trade or do whatever operations with btw-it's illegal and you get into troubles