I don't understand the reasoning of wire. They claim the darkweb black markets are dead because apparently in their opinion the silk road was some sort of hono

I don't understand the reasoning of wire. They claim the darkweb black markets are dead because apparently in their opinion the silk road was some sort of honorable black market where buyers could trust sellers. This is ludicrous. An anonymous market will only ever be as good as sellers and moderators make it. It has the obvious disadvantage of being anonymous but that's a systematic problem when dealing with this type of darkweb. The silk road was shutdown amidst murder conspiracy and using a brute force method of simply swiping the laptop from under the nose of the mediocre administrator operating it. If anything this episode has opened the door for more disciplined and experienced people to operate their own darkweb markets and actually get away with doing so without having to lower themselves to the deeds of their predecessor. From what I can gather the root problem is not attacks against the anonymity but rather human problems. Human admins, making human mistakes or succumbing to human temptation. So with that in mind, it's only a matter of time before we see proper darkweb marketplaces come into their own. Parallels can be drawn to the world of software and media piracy, everyone should be familiar with the rate of which piracy sites have been coming and going the last 15 years.