(B) is what Bitcoin did with drugs, assassination, etc. and BitTorrent did with file pirating.
That said I agree with you and that was exactly my point. Instead of coming from altruism they should build something genuinely useful that's only possible as a decentralized system.
First, I am speaking from my own browsing experience on the now-dead silkroad.
Second, I'm not trying to disagree with you at all. It was to point out that there are definitely use cases for decentralized technologies where centralized systems can't go (although a lot have been negative so far)
I know you are not trying to disagree -- and if you were, that would also be fine, of course :)
Mine was not a rhetorical question. People keep mentioning assassination markets but it always sounds like a urban myth to me. I would like to know if there are documented cases or not.
Just because you see an advertisement on something like silk road, doesn't mean that it's not some kid playing pretend.
That said I agree with you and that was exactly my point. Instead of coming from altruism they should build something genuinely useful that's only possible as a decentralized system.