[jff]

I think if the lawyer then tried to sell off his fee in bitcoins in order to get some real money, he'd crash the market. Especially since you can't use bitcoins to buy drugs anymore.

[pdq]

You are woefully mistaken. Shutting down the Silk Road did not shut down all online drug exchange via bitcoins nor Mt. Gox.

The demand is still there and as quickly as SR goes down, many more will pop up to take their place.

Also selling 20k bitcoins over a multi week period would prevent any spike or crash in price. That's a tiny fraction of the daily coins traded.

[pizza]

SR was just the most popular marketplace, not the only one.