They wont ever stop all the places like silk and its not really anything to do with bitcoin that bad things exist in the world. Doesnt the TOR back end still operate anyway. Just seems a bit of an idealistic view of the world and of course thats met by locking someone non violent in a cage till he dies as if thats contributing any solution.
btw there's that civil forfeiture law, so i wouldn't be surprised if they take away real estates associated with him and his family, and not just wallet and money he had.
They should be doing that instead of spending 50k a year for decades. Just from the idea of providing value administration, maybe dont waste so much dam money unnecessarily and of course its political rhetoric as to the reasoning behind why they spend so much money not crime prevention