This is a very hasty conclusion. I think it's several orders of magnitude more probable that several greedy and half-intelligent people (intelligent enough to

This is a very hasty conclusion. I think it's several orders of magnitude more probable that several greedy and half-intelligent people (intelligent enough to execute a darknet market and unintelligent enough that they aren't already well-compensated for their intelligence) saw a MASSIVE vacuum open up in the ecosystem when the Silk Road shut down. And they went for it, with varying degrees of success. Tor is an anonymizing TCP overlay. That is all it is. It will make it so your TCP stream is not connected to your IP address. But that's all. I got asked a question, just two days ago, if Tor would make someone anonymous if they logged into their facebook account. Do you think it will? Do you think it's advertised that way? Further, even the Tor developers acknowledge that hidden services are not a priority for them. Their priority is far and away client usage, because their largest userbase and their funders' priorities are bypassing Internet censorship, not running darknet marketplaces. What was your reasoning process that lead you to discard the other explanations rather than Tor being weak?