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You gotta wonder if many of these owners who jump ship with vendors money, are the ones who show up suddenly with funds to "save the day".

This whole result was fascinating to me.

Ross Ulbricht gets life in federal prison, no possibility of parole, and yet people are tripping all over themselves to take his place.

What an excellent example of Nicholas Naseem Taleb's concept of antifragility.

It's evolution. Survival of the fittest, quite simply. The weakest are taken down, leaving more customers for the remaining, stronger competitors.

It's a rubbish example. The DNMs do not get better thanks to exit scams and takedowns. They get worse, as sensible and experienced administrators depart with a fortune, to be replaced by mendacious incompetents. Nor is the technical side of things any better - they have, if anything, regressed technically on the issue of multisig.