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Posted on 11/18/2013 11:27:58 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian
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.
Last month I received an encrypted email from someone calling himself by the pseudonym Kuwabatake Sanjuro, who pointed me towards his recent creation: The website Assassination Market, a crowdfunding service that lets anyone anonymously contribute bitcoins towards a bounty on the head of any government official–a kind of Kickstarter for political assassinations. According to Assassination Market’s rules, if someone on its hit list is killed–and yes, Sanjuro hopes that many targets will be–any hitman who can prove he or she was responsible receives the collected funds.
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It truly is going to be a brave new world.
Just because something is offensive doesn't mean it is feasible.
This may also be a law-enforcement-sponsored ‘honey pot’ operation that’s designed to draw in potential conspiracists.
It kind of makes finding the killer easy. They have to "prove" they did it. In other words, in order to collect the bounty, an individual has to put the prosecution's case together for them and then come forward to claim their prize.
What a freaking LIE. Obviously this is the FIAT FIENDS trying desperately trying to discredit any alternative away from their monopoly on enslaving your kids and spending like crazy.
THE ENEMY OF STATISTS IS CHOICE AND FREE MARKETS.
its amazing that ANYONE here would believe this.
They chose a Nigerian name to make the lie seem just a LITTLE believable.
Bitcoin / Fiat Currency / Scams bump for later....
“Oh this is soooo dangerous, we MUST get rid of naaaasty BitCoin, its something the daaastardly White Widow would use...”
( cue stabbing sound effect from Psycho)
The words in this post shouldn’t be in this forum
How about just a service that ships the live politician of your choice in a tiny wooden crate to North Vietnam? Cheap, fun and no death involved.
You mean the guy wanting to share all that money with me wasn’t legit? Darn!
A fraud investigator told me that people would call him upset that they had been told they had won the Canadian Lottery, but didn’t get the money after sending in a “payment” to recieve it. The first thing he asked them was if they had ever bought a ticket from said Canadian lottery? The answer was always “no”. Oops.
“This may also be a law-enforcement-sponsored ‘honey pot’ operation that’s designed to draw in potential conspiracists.”
Could well be, but it could also be a source of jokes for comedy writers. Obviously, a website soliciting the shooting of politicians has some inherent contradictions, a few of which I shall list as follows:
1. Head shots are useless, as it is well known politicians don’t use their brain. Well, not the one in the larger head, anyway.
2. Heart shots are a waste of effort and ammo because those things have no heart, as their behavior demonstrates.
3. Gut shots cause no damage to a politician as they are the classic example of “the gutless wonder” - their craven cowardice on any issue is proof of this observation.
4. Shooting a politician in the foot is the definition of redundancy as politicians shoot themselves in the foot regularly, but their constituents never pay any attention.
Conclusion: Shooting a politician is a waste of time and valuable ammo.
It is akin to the little old lady asked by a presstitute for whom she was going to vote. She said “I never vote, it only encourages ‘em!”
Shootin’ one of those things just gives them media time.
;-)
Knowing the way political leaders actually get assassinated (not generally for profit motive) it sounds kind of funny to me. Good list to see who’s really hated in the world, unlikely to actually result in any deaths.
Noting the names listed in the article ...
Honey pot or possibly laying the groundwork for a law outlawing bit coins. If financial manipulation interests you, I reccommend Alex Gore’s novel Absolute Risk.
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Probably the brain child of the NSA.
Public Law 88-36 (77 Stat. 54), repealed the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 and related laws, repealed a tax on silver transfers, and authorized the Federal Reserve to issue one- and two-dollar bills, in addition to the notes they were already issuing
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