I have day dreamed that it might have non-malicious ties to the US government, perhaps they discovered they can effectively tax the sales of illegal drugs (one of the main reasons statists give for why the government hasn't been in a hurry to make drugs legal). Then I remember that they don't have a monopoly on the market so can't tax it forever with the SR model unless they still bust everyone else who attempts to sell drugs that are untaxed. And then I remember that they dont need to tax drugs because they are already making a fortune via taxing people in the name of fighting the war on drugs and selling us all to the prison industrial slave traders (myself not being a statist and thinking the government wants drugs to be illegal to keep us slaves for their own massive financial and political and other power). IMO it is more likely to be run by the C.I.A. to covertly fund some operation that they don't want the rest of the government to know about, they do need to get funding for their black operations somehow after all. I think the C.I.A. would make a more secure site than SR has though. So most likely it is run by some dude with a bit of technical know how who used to be a small time drug dealer, probably with some business and marketing schooling or experience, who saw the potential of bitcoin and wanted to further the agorist agenda and put some extra cash in his pockets.