QuoteIf this was true why are the tor devs talking about the tor network running slow etc if you claim its a SR problem?I had been having troubles with all onion sites until i updated tor now all including SR work fine, so please explain your theoryI don't understand what you mean with "If this was true", I've never denied the botnet slowed all things on the TOR network down to a crawl. However the difference has been while most sites have been loading extremely slowly they have been working consistently at almost all times, it has just been a question of how long loading time. Silk Road on the other hand has been erratic during this whole ordeal and working at best roughly 10-20 % of the time, to then say Silk Road is performing exactly as well as all other sites is not something that should have to be explained as a theory. This is not some event that transpired many years ago, it's been happening the last week or so and there's also plenty of Information of Silk Road not being able to handle large traffic loads on previous occasions ( curiously Atlantis didn't have any problems during these periods either ).Also I don't see saying things are running fine now is even remotely relevant, that is obviously because the problem to a large extent has been fixed by Relays updating their Client or simply using the new Experimental Version. My point in the end is Silk Road seems to have highly ineffective coding and it's not apparent until there's stress of some sort, ie. high load from many visitors or this botnet as example. Now Atlantis could be explained away previously with they didn't have the same amount of traffic as Silk Road, which was and still is true. However with this botnet problem that point doesn't stand any longer on it's own as it's absurd to claim some sites take more of a beating than others, and I have seen no admission Silk Road had any other problems than the botnet itself ( for example a DDoS attack from an unknown entity ). Can't have the cake and eat it too.