We should welcome the collapse of the exchanges and practical criminalization of bitcoin.In the short term, this shall hurt us. Nooblets shall dry up for a while.In the long term this shall dramatically improve the situation because it will make BTC the Internets black market dollar. It shall improve people's tradecraft for a while and help develop a more robust eco-system which makes using sophisticated tradecraft less necessary (becuz monies).Once systems like Zerocoin and Open transactions are fully formed a firm foundation shall be laid down for the coming industrial revolution.People buying direct from exchanges and sending money to SR were being idiots anyway. And people selling to exchanges...! Don't get me started. Like I've said before, growing too fast is as much as threat to the black market as growing too slowly.Closures of exchanges: bad for freedom, good for us. It's not like we were the ones lobbying the US government to close them after all.Also, that ICE is involved is a very obvious sign this is all about SR and controlling markets. --To Bitcoin people:You guys had better get your shit together re: anonymity, because once the government takes a byte, it tends to keep coming. I hope you were treating your bitcoin talk accounts as cautiously as you would SR ones, because otherwise you guys need to get your house in order pronto. i.e. if you are a miner or exchange, you had better get ready for &v or a program of intimidation. Some of you are good with tradecraft but others are too relaxed. You can't depend on the government to make sense.I know a lot of BTC people don't like SR, but the fact is that the Darknet and cryptocurrency are inextricably linked whatever you do. This isn't logical or fair on some levels, but it is the perspective of the guy with the hammer you need to be worrying about. Nobody on SR is a threat to your physical safety, but you guys are taking the risk of getting the E-Gold guest of the state experience deluxe unless you're anonymous.tldr; Take a leaf out of Satoshi's book. He was a smart fellow, no?