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pnwmom

(108,972 posts)
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 05:45 PM Feb 2014

The new Bitcoin "Assassination Market" targets Obama, among others. This is not from The Onion.

This is the ultimate Libertarian/anarchist dream -- the end of government, following the deaths of political leaders.

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-bitcoin-assassination-market-2013-11

Feel like buying some murder with your Bitcoin?

Well, that's the idea behind Assassination Market, a Bitcoin-fueled crowd-funding website that will let users anonymously donate to see the heads of political leaders roll. Basically, Assassination Market is like a deranged Kickstarter or IndieGoGo for political murder.

Forbes reporter Andy Greenber talked to Kuwabatake Sanjuro, crypto-anarchist and founder of Assassination Market (not his real name, naturally), who believes that the site will change the world for the better by destroying "all governments, everywhere."

Sanjuro's idea is that once a few politicians get killed, the "war on privacy" that they are apparently waging will end.

So far, there are six leaders up for assassination on the site, including chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama. Bernanke's got the most money in his "dead pool" right now, with a listing of 124.14 Bitcoin, or about $71,000 at current exchange rates.

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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-bitcoin-assassination-market-2013-11#ixzz2tiFMPU4d

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The new Bitcoin "Assassination Market" targets Obama, among others. This is not from The Onion. (Original Post) pnwmom Feb 2014 OP
That's truly repulsive. I can see that Mr. Sanjuro isn't so worried about government okaawhatever Feb 2014 #1

okaawhatever

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1. That's truly repulsive. I can see that Mr. Sanjuro isn't so worried about government
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 05:52 PM
Feb 2014

watching him that he stops advocating publicly for the elimination of world leaders.

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