Are you fucking joking? Bitcoin had no credibility in the eyes of the outside world back in 2011. SilkRoad was very small back then so you can't even say the online drug community trusted it. One fuckup after another along with the slow slide in price gave the few people who had heard of it ammunition to shit on Bitcoin at every opportunity. It all culminated in the infamous Rise and Fall of Bitcoin article in Wired at the end of the year. I need to stop now or I'll have nightmares about Bruce Wagner's grin and the mybitcoin heist. Where are you Tom Williams???