The 1st time I heard the analogy of a "silk road" online, it wasn't for an underground marketplace, but an agoric packet-routing scheme, the "Digital Silk Road"

The 1st time I heard the analogy of a "silk road" online, it wasn't for an underground marketplace, but an agoric packet-routing scheme, the "Digital Silk Road": http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Bionomics/Extropians/HardyTribbleSilkRoad.html http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Bionomics/Extropians/HardyT... Under that scheme, local microcredit along each hop would (theoretically) allow global routing without any global/monopolistic governance or currency.