Comment Re:Nice Ad Placement or DEA Honeypot (Score 1) 498
You are oversimplifying greatly.
Following the money. So you are saying that if I go to instawallet.org from a library, a wifi spot or though tor, create a wallet, anonymously send money to that wallet, bitinstant.com, make another, and another and another, series of one time use bitcoin wallet addresses, before it gets sent to SilkRoad, which tumbles that, they are going to track that? How? You can set 6 one time use wallets up and transfer random amounts.
Intercepting packages. Wow, someone sent me drugs? Why would they do that? Oh, you think I was on SilkRoad? Well, if I were to do so, I would have a truecrypt usb key with portable firefox and tor on it, and I dare you to be able to prove that I was ever on SilkRoad.
As for the bitcoins on people's computers, personally what I like is the place that converts bitcoins into silver and gold. That would be the payout method I would chose. Besides, you do have to have a certain level of expertise to access and operate here, and most of the community seems to be very well aware of the need for encryption.