I'm really not sure why you people are saying SR was a bad thing for bitcoin.
I thought bitcoin was about freedom, about our liberty, an innovation, getting out of our governments / the banks sight. I mean, transferring money worldwide without regulations or a central authority. Shouldn't that be illegal? For example if Person A in EU wants to give $500k to person B in the US, A splits the money between his relatives up to the legal limit, puts all of them to a plane, they take the money to person B, that would be illegal, no? Bitcoin works almost the same way..
SR was about the freedom of choice. No one forced you with a gun to buy any drugs from the market. In fact, it helped a lot of people getting better quality drugs at cheaper prices, and looking at the feedbacks anyone could easily decide if they want to buy from a seller or not.
I'm really not sure why some drugs are even banned on the 1st place. Alcohol can ruin lives. Stupidity can ruin lives. Even cigarettes change a person's mind & thinking. Why not ban the so used E additives or genetically modified food, which doesn't even have a long enough history or testing before releasing it to the public? It's much harder & more expensive to buy 100% bio food without additives in my country than to buy alcohol.
Like, why ban a plant, which grows on the ground by itself (discovered by ancient Assyrians 24th century BC), and why let something stay legal which genetically modifies foods (like creating a watermelon without seeds, growing oversized tomatoes without any taste...), which we really don't know anything about. Why let alcohol stay legal which causes PHYSICAL withdrawal symptoms if stopped using, in which you can DIE!!!
I'm saying this even though I care for my and everyone's children, but I don't really think banning something makes it less risk, since any youth can get hooked up in a disco if they wanted to or get drugged by some date-rapist. That's with SR up or SR down, making it illegal or not. But taking away the free choice from people I think is almost the same as putting them into prison..
Even though I vouch with SR, I'm REALLY against getting someone killed, and I really judge like DPR doing that. Also I'm NOT a drug user, not that I have never tried, but I've made a choice.
What about the people who depend on their fix, like heroin, or much better - normal functioning GBL/opioid addicts, who can DIE after the site closure? I know they shouldn't have gotten addicted in the 1st place, but maybe they had a bad time of their lives, had no friends to talk with, and made a bad choice.
just my 2 cents...