I think one of the unintended consequences of shutting down Silk Road so publicly will be that the existence of the Tor network is now being advertised to lots of people for the first time.

A lot of regular people are probably now saying, "Wait, I can actually buy drugs online without getting caught or ripped off?"

We'll see if there is another spike in the Tor users after this news cycle: https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html