Anyone have any websites, forum, or books worth reading? I'll start... I don't know how 'good' this book is, but it's a start anyway.

Oppps.... here it is... http://www.talkgold.com/forum/f22-.html

i'd skip liberty reserve and perhaps look into webmoney, pecunix, and perhaps hoopay.
there are new technologies all the time that are very interesting, keep up with agorist friends.

probably good to keep multiple small accounts.

even better banco de panama!!!

I figured as much about Panama Law being a scam, but still posted the information they provided as a decent bit checked out with other sources.

The problem I see with most of the e-currencies is that you still have central sources holding your assets and conducting the transactions (unless you bounce around through exchange networks, and then liquidity often becomes an issue.)  There were quite a few busts stemming from eGold's transaction logging a few years back.  I know some newer currencies are attempting to adhere more to models like Open Transactions that are designed to make transfers completely untraceable, but that still leaves the concern about an anonymous entity holding some portion of your assets for a length of time.  The idea that your currency is backed by gold is meaningless when you have no clue where it is held or who has it, or any legal means of claiming your share in the event of a collapse, so you still ultimately end up with fiat currency backed by only your trust in the issuer.  At least bitcoin tries to come up with a way to solve the centralization issue, but you still end up with the problem that your currency is only worth what people are willing to pay for it (which is true of anything of value, but significantly more people make markets in ie. gold, oil, USD, JPY, etc.  eCache's total reserves would fit in my pocket.)

Even if you're starting with cash (from drug sales, etc.) (or, rather, once you get to cash if your source of income is from some sort of online scheming) you're still going to have to eventually legitimize it somehow unless you plan to spend every bit of it up front, which also has a tendency to bring about unwanted attention.  There is no point in accumulating wealth if you don't have some means to invest and grow it and use it how you want.  Unless you're just some hood thug that thinks pouring every bit of your earnings into pimping out your Cadillac while continuing to live in public housing is a good way to live, you're going to eventually probably have to launder it the old fashioned way.  Get a good lawyer and tax accountant, take out a loan and start a service business or two.  You will be paying taxes and spending an awful lot of time and effort trumping up fake sales entries in the beginning, but you will eventually be able to access your money and do what you want with it.  The ultimate goal is to basically use illegal income to finance legal businesses until they can become successful on their own, then the public question of where did so and so get so much money is answered with well he started this and that.  Name any well-known wealthy family and most got their start being involved in some pretty shady shit.. the Kennedys were bootleggers (1920s meth cooks), the Clintons were tied in with Mexican drug gangs with a few illegal land deals thrown in for good measure, and so on.

I have to imagine though that most of this won't honestly be an issue for too many people here.  It's not that I don't think most members here are capable of running multi-million dollar industrial drug labs (many certainly are and a few possibly have,) it's just that statistically most won't.  And anything under 100K total is never going to get looked at twice for the most part.  You can turn cash into cashier's checks and buy cars at most local dealerships without any sort of problems (I personally know people who have paid 20-30k..  dealers want your money.  They can't take cash so they'll tell you to go get a cashier's check (or several.))  Unless you have the nosiest bank in the world, most aren't going to care about you slowly moving in money, especially if it's wired in through online payment processors or other bank accounts.. you can move tens of thousands in over reasonably short periods of time.

Getting cash in is still a problem, but surely you know some people who will pay you online or by check in exchange for cash from time to time.  The bank has no way of knowing what's income, what's you just moving your own money around or getting paid back on loans to friends etc. and for the most part they don't care.  Millions of people every day are wiring legitimate money from savings to checking to investment accounts and they just can't keep track of all of that.  Unless they are required by law to report something specific (like serialized cash deposits) or you're being so obvious that they can't help but notice and don't want charges of gross neglect raining down on them in the future, most banks aren't going to go out of their way to report something they don't have to unless they think you're somehow screwing them over (ie. wiring over a certain amount out of an account will set off internal fraud alerts based on your transfer history.)

Once you've had money in the banking system for a few years, it's basically yours and no one's ever going to ask you where it came from (unless you eventually face a full formal IRS audit, but those are very rare and generally focus on the huge cases, corporate and high dollar evasion allegations.. they only have so many resources and unless you're just going out of your way to draw their attention to you, the most you're going to hear from the audit department are adjustment letters when you make math errors on your annual return.  Keep in mind they will take a special interest in businesses if you start trying to deduct lots of personal expenses through them.. again, having a good tax accountant helps here.)

That's all a rambling mess with more asides than a Norm MacDonald bit, but I think it covers a lot of decent points.  Large amounts of cash are often legitimized by creating new things with it that can be sold for more usable forms of payment.  The Russian mob has been known to pay contractors in cash to build apartment complexes and hotels, then turn around and sell them.  When you create something new (a property, business, etc.) you're often able to avoid the standard inquiries into how you initially were able to buy something.  It's all pretty much the same model, you pay for lots of smaller expenses in cash to eventually create something large that can be sold for legitimate income.  With a small building you pay the architect, the contractor (or build yourself a house,) the lumber yard, the drywall place, the hardware store, etc.  A few thousand in cash here and there.. you're never dumping a big wad of it on anybody.  You might have to buy the land legitimately, but so what if you sell it afterward you'll get your originally legitimate money back out plus a lot more.  If you have a steady real job, or own a string of successful businesses , you can probably just take a loan out to buy a house and pay the monthly mortgage with money orders (again, you're using an intermediary asset to pool lots of smaller payments together, and you can absolutely pay off mortgages with money orders.. a member of my family was so bad at managing money that she couldn't keep a checking account balanced, so she just closed it and started paying all of her bills including her mortgage with money orders.)

Here's a book with a couple ideas.

Unless you are trying to hide 50 million dollars there are a bunch of easy ways to hide money and have it be very safe without any bank account. The following tricks are routinely used by those hiding money from ex-spouse and lawyers etc.

1. Pre-pay bills. You can pay your bills years ahead of time. (Don't have the statements sent to your primary residence)
2. Pre-paid debit cards. Netspend cards hold like $50,000 (I'd steer clear of greendot though)
3. Most importantly don't start some complex money laundering scheme to hide $20,000. You'd get way more time for laundering than the crime itself.