Hi David. I visited silk road when it was running. It didn't sell assassination. Ulrich had a policy against this. It mostly wasn't about drugs. Drugs were one of many product categories it provided. It was mostly normal things, to support the use of bitcoin. A significant portion of drug purchases appeared to be marijuana, which is now legal in many states. People on the site also sold hard drugs, and services for anonymously transferring mail deliveries to people. It is not illegal to provide a marketplace. It seems to me the portal provided an avenue for hunting down anyone selling these drugs, because they were using the normal postal service to do so. I expect that Ulbricht is serving a sentence far in excess of their crime, because the site was competing with existing criminal marketplaces, and refused to play their game. If Ulbricht had real ties to the real black market, clients and partners would have protected the site from being taken down, like apparently happens in other situations.