Revisiting Agorism: Learning from Silk Road

After the whole Silk Road collapse, I started reviewing what I thought of Agorism. I really love the concept, and I think it is a good idea (along with Panarchism and Perpetual Travel), and should be part of the tool belt of liberty. But the question remains: what went wrong? Well, for one thing, the security of Mr. Ulbricht was not airtight. Second, he should have considered a second citizenship in a country such as Brazil, although there could have been a potential to be handed over, due to the War on Drugs. However, with a few minor exceptions as noted above and in articles about the fiasco, he planned pretty well. It was not so much him that was the problem, but the problem of centralization. Agorism, at least in the original spirit, was meant to be decentralized, and meant for small business people to trade underground, not to create one or two major companies on the alternate web, and once they pull out they are screwed. Perhaps what is needed is a specific software that specifically handles merchants, and is similar encryptically to Tor, but is more focused on ecommerce and trading. Perhaps if the emphasis is placed more on creating a bartering like network in a decentralized manner like Bittorrent, but with the encryption capabilities of i2p, perhaps the decentralization would overwhelm the system. Instead of centralized systems like Freedom Hosting and The Silk Road, perhaps decentralization, which is the mantra of all libertarian movements, should reign supreme.