Okay I know you are right, and that was kind of my thought but I was just really stoned when I wrote this and was having trouble communicating and maintaining a consistent idea in my head. But the risk would still be mitigating by splitting the risk. But I guess I am thinking of more of a direct deal situation where a vendor has awebsite, but website is only used to list products, pricing, and contact information. Then purchase like a direct deal. No money on an online wallet other than yours and your vendors. The stores would functionally be informational only. Presently, you kind need to find legit, consistently checked, email or bitmessage address for vendors and you have to go through the motions of finding out product, prices, whether or not they even do direct deals, shipping policy & all profile info, etc, etc. This system would allow you to quickly find out all that information BEFORE contacting the vendor making the process way more efficient and user friendly. Forums would serve as a good jumping off point to find vendor's pages and get buyer input/reviews/warnings, but all the vendors would not lose their pages is that was shut down. New forums could just pop up then. And vendor page attacks would be isolated events, instead of taking tons of vendors offline at once. No risk of market exit scams. Still roughly same risk of vendor exit scams (and vendors I think are just much less likely to exit scam then markets for reasons explained above. Everyone uses PGP and safe mail or message clients and everything is pretty good. It's these market scams that are going to kill this scene and make everythng so god damn expensive and risky for eveyone. LE is also just going to have a lot more trouble I think containing this type of scene.