Since this is an ICO launched by the largest Darknet market in Russia, does it mean that certain legal requirements will be bypassed? Or if their ICO plan will proceed, will the project go through any legal processes in launching a public coin offering? If they will pass through all the necessary legal steps, I doubt if they will still be the darknet that everybody assumes.
I was about to ask "are you stupid?", but in a weird kind of way, you might even have a point.
It's not exactly unheard of for highly forbidden businesses to build up a customer base, then go legal, but it
is unheard of in the illegal substance market. However, we're living through strange times, and while I don't quite believe Russia is likely to be the place where such a thing is pioneered, at the same time, we should be half expecting such bizarre things to happen given the current zeitgeist.
In this case, it sounds pretty scammy though. This supposedly dominant .onion marketplace cannot make sufficient profits to fund a few extra servers? Sounds suspicious, whatever way you look at it.