I'm actually sad that the Silk Road guys did drugs first, since all it did was bring a bunch of heat down.
The problem is that that excuse can be used for anything. The obvious solution is to just use silkroad.
Even if that is the case, there should still be a separate "gold road" on Tor, based on the same code.
Otherwise it's just too easy for the-powers-that-be to propagandize the link between the two. "Gold" becomes comparable to "drugs" and "guns".
There is already enough of a push in the mainstream media to label gold as "contraband", we should not give those people ammunition.Think about this: If the site ONLY sells gold and silver, then it becomes much more difficult to demonize those people. Any effort to do so would be interpreted as an attack on justice.