Quote from: munkies on April 07, 2013, 02:09 amJust stop and think about it for a second. SR is the only popular market place where payment is made ONLY in btc. Most other places use BTC as a secondary form of payment. The bitcoin economy is very very far from it's market cap. It's all about speculators. Think of the early adopters. A guy investing 1000 bucks in BTC in 2010 at $.10/BTC is now a milionaire. Don't you think he'd be thinking of cashing out his 1.4 million bucks? The early adopters now have 1000s of coins sitting in their wallets, this is like a fucking lottery ticket for them. They obviously can't buy sport cars and mansions with bitcoin and I doubt many of them are going to wait much longer. I do think there will be some organic growth after the crash but it is going to be painful, especially for SR, as I'm sure there are more than a few vendors holding onto their coins. It's going to be a massive shitstorm and I don't know if SR is prepared for it. SR is only 2 years old, I really do hope we'll get to see it's 5th and 10th and 20th anniversary, but it's obvious that sooner or later it will have to be put to the test and everyone will suffer, buyers, vendors and even DPR. LE is well aware of SR and especially after the Gawker article they are surely spending nights investigating it. You may think SR is of little interest compared to the big drug cartels, but with SR it's different. The drug cartels operate under the radar, SR is a lot more blatant much more likely to cause public outrage.Also think about the fact that BTC is not even remotely appealing to governments and LE as they don't have any control over it so it makes a lot of sense for LE to attack bitcoin (kill two rabbits in one shot). Don't think LE is surfing the forums all day trying to find personal info of users, they working really hard to shut down the whole operation and they might have gone for the bitcoins.Absolutely incorrect. All of it.