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Bitcoin assassination bounty for Ben Bernanke

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"Dark Web" Exposes $75,000 Bitcoin-Based Bounty For Bernanke's Assassination | Zero Hedge

Meet The 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins - Forbes




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As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it’ll soon be used to buy murder, too.

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For now, the site’s rewards are small but not insignificant. In the four months that Assassination Market has been online, six targets have been submitted by users, and bounties have been collected ranging from ten bitcoins for the murder of NSA director Keith Alexander and 40 bitcoins for the assassination of President Barack Obama to 124.14 bitcoins–the largest current bounty on the site–targeting Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve and public enemy number one for many of Bitcoin’s anti-banking-system users. At Bitcoin’s current rapidly rising exchanges rate, that’s nearly $75,000 for Bernanke’s would-be killer.

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Sanjuro’s grisly ambitions go beyond raising the funds to bankroll a few political killings. He believes that if Assassination Market can persist and gain enough users, it will eventually enable the assassinations of enough politicians that no one would dare to hold office. He says he intends Assassination Market to destroy “all governments, everywhere.”

“I believe it will change the world for the better,” writes Sanjuro, who shares his handle with the nameless samurai protagonist in the Akira Kurosawa film “Yojimbo.” (He tells me he chose it in homage to creator of the online black market Silk Road, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts, as well Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto.) ”Thanks to this system, a world without wars, dragnet panopticon-style surveillance, nuclear weapons, armies, repression, money manipulation, and limits to trade is firmly within our grasp for but a few bitcoins per person. I also believe that as soon as a few politicians gets offed and they realize they’ve lost the war on privacy, the killings can stop and we can transition to a phase of peace, privacy and laissez-faire.”

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Like other so-called “dark web” sites, Assassination Market runs on the anonymity network Tor, which is designed to prevent anyone from identifying the site’s users or Sanjuro himself.

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As for technically proving that an assassin is responsible for a target’s death, Assassination Market asks its killers to create a text file with the date of the death ahead of time, and to use a cryptographic function known as a hash to convert it to a unique string of characters.

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“I am a crypto-anarchist,” Sanjuro concludes. “We have a bright future ahead of us.”


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Quite interesting, but I predict there will be Zero assassinations as a result of this effort.

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“I believe it will change the world for the better,” writes Sanjuro, who shares his handle with the nameless samurai protagonist in the Akira Kurosawa film “Yojimbo.” (He tells me he chose it in homage to creator of the online black market Silk Road, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts, as well Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto.) ”Thanks to this system, a world without wars, dragnet panopticon-style surveillance, nuclear weapons, armies, repression, money manipulation, and limits to trade is firmly within our grasp for but a few bitcoins per person. I also believe that as soon as a few politicians gets offed and they realize they’ve lost the war on privacy, the killings can stop and we can transition to a phase of peace, privacy and laissez-faire.”

This statement alone just shows what a bunch of totally freakin ignorant morons believe in this nonsense. Freakin crackpot.

Yeah right - lets solve the worlds issues with ' a few bit coins per person' oh wait, there are only ever going to be 21 million, and the worlds population is how much? And this will rid the world of all human emotion will it (greed)

Go back to your freakin' bong you dope head dip sh!t.

I'll make that moron eat my sh!t. Then I'll make him eat his sh!t which was made from my sh!t that I made him eat. Then I'll make him eat that sh!t too.

Dip sh!t.

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Yeah right - lets solve the worlds issues with ' a few bit coins per person' oh wait, there are only ever going to be 21 million, and the worlds population is how much? And this will rid the world of all human emotion will it (greed)

I think you are misunderstanding. There are a finite number of bitcoins, but the complexity of the protocol increases exponentially, and each bitcoin can be priced in fractions of a dollar. So I am not sure what 21 million has to do with anything. It could just as easily be 21 trillion coins, it makes no difference really to the end user who has the coins.

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Go back to your freakin' bong you dope head dip sh!t.

I'll make that moron eat my sh!t. Then I'll make him eat his sh!t which was made from my sh!t that I made him eat. Then I'll make him eat that sh!t too.

Dip sh!t.

Hi,

Do you really need to express yourself in this way? First of all, if you want to say shit, just type it, don't obfuscate it. It makes it look more childish by typing "sh!t".

But is it really necessary to write such a post? This is out of place on futures.io (formerly BMT). There are other forums where you can write such things, please get to know our community better before posting something like this again in the future.

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I think you are misunderstanding. There are a finite number of bitcoins, but the complexity of the protocol increases exponentially, and each bitcoin can be priced in fractions of a dollar. So I am not sure what 21 million has to do with anything. It could just as easily be 21 trillion coins, it makes no difference really to the end user who has the coins.

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I think it makes a HUGE difference to the end user regards to the quantity produced. If there were 21 trillion bitcoins, their value would be a lot less. Look at 'quantitative easing' to see the devastating impact printing more U$D, bitcoins, Yen, Euro's etc has the economy and society at large.

Simply put, which would you rather own; an original work of art, or a poster which has been printed a million times over and is on every 'trendy' urbanites living room wall the world over?

Do you really trust the unknown nerds behind this not to print more on a whim for their personal well being if it really takes off?

The complexity and protocol IMO is what has 'nothing to do with it'. Bank notes are deliberately made as hard as possible to forge, yet people manage it. Quite well in the case of USD. Industry and governments spend millions if not billions so their IT systems can't be hacked. But guess what......

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Hi,

Do you really need to express yourself in this way? First of all, if you want to say shit, just type it, don't obfuscate it. It makes it look more childish by typing "sh!t".

But is it really necessary to write such a post? This is out of place on futures.io (formerly BMT). There are other forums where you can write such things, please get to know our community better before posting something like this again in the future.

Mike

Geez, you're such a 'buzz-kill'

I hope you're not having a bad day Big Mike. What ever may be bugging you, I hope tomorrow is a better day for you

You must admit though, the person whom I quoted really is a dip-shit though isn't he.

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Geez, you're such a 'buzz-kill'

I hope you're not having a bad day Big Mike. What ever may be bugging you, I hope tomorrow is a better day for you

You must admit though, the person whom I quoted really is a dip-shit though isn't he.

I am certainly not an expert on Bitcoin. I have no position or even opinion about it. I know you are very against it, and want to desperately be short (I hope you aren't short yet, since it keeps moving against you so much).

When it comes to futures.io (formerly BMT) however, I am an expert and just want to make sure you understand this is not TL or ET or T2W or FF or whatever else and I won't allow it to turn into those places. You can go there and post what you like, but here you'll need to follow our rules of being helpful and polite when posting.

Your post was reported by others as being rude, which is why I stepped in.

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Maybe we could have some other button to click for those who disagree with posts - kind of like an 'anti' thank button that you already employ.

That way we can see who agrees/likes a post, and those who dont. This would be very transparent and thus in line the raft of regulations that are hitting the financial industry.

Who knows, it may even encourage me to buy some bitcoins as I will have a reason to anonymously spend them on a certain service

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Maybe we could have some other button to click for those who disagree with posts - kind of like an 'anti' thank button that you already employ.

That way we can see who agrees/likes a post, and those who dont. This would be very transparent and thus in line the raft of regulations that are hitting the financial industry.

Maybe you can find one on another forum if you don't want to be here.

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