well what information we do have is... 1. They where actively hunting Jakob Applebaum for years...his American citizenship was revoked when he left for a conference in Germany in 2014- 2015 ish ...i can get the dates but who cares.( it might have been a bit earlier) 2. The Onion project was repeatedly confronted by government agencies asking for the developers to make a "back door" before 2014 many, many times...they refused and then the drama started. ( and this is after the network was supposedly compromised)..links already in thread. 3. it was created at least to my understanding to allow the people in countries with totalitarian regimes to get information out to the world without getting caught in the process, and it worked well. 4. Bitcoins...im sure the IRS hates those things (because they cant tax it) and they want that shit gone bad and its still here. I used to break blocks ..it was fun until it wasn't anymore. I think they got control of a node or some nodes but couldnt get full info on what was going on in the network itself..only what they could glean off of the compromised nodes. ..and its the silk road, your right..lol.