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Idk about silk road, but hydra (russian online marketplace) was the best thing that happened to russia drug market. It had very good reputation system and even labs that did random testing of drugs being sold

Existence of big marketplaces definitely lower chances of people dying from drugs

Russians must have become experts at geocaching with all their experience chasing dead-drops.
It really surprises me that it's not widely used in the rest of the world