And the closure of silk road and the recent US hearings were very helpful in establishing bitcoin as 'not to be feared'
Silk Road 2.0 came up 4 weeks later. The whole argument that "Bitcoin enables crime" is false; people have been committing crime using dollars and pounds for centuries!
Personally I don't believe that getting high should be a crime, but that's a different subject anyway.
Andy Greenberg @ Forbes is covering darknet / cryptocurrency issues well... in case you didn't know already.