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This article makes the case strongly http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/on-the-high-seas-of-the-hidden-internet/ http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/on-the-high-seas-of-the-h... "... order in actual markets depends on threats of violence – whether the penalties embedded in the laws of the state, or the bloody interventions of mob bosses. In the absence of such arrangements, predators move in. The Silk Road’s business model worked only if genuinely ruthless people didn’t notice its critical vulnerabilities."