From: coderman &l= t;coderman(a)gmail.com>
To: jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com>

On 1/14/16, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.c= om> wrote:
>> ... The main criticism I had
>> of this was the fact t= hat the system was said to have a minimum bid of 1
>> BTC, which at the tim= e was somewhere around $1000. This, contrasting with
>> my Assassinat= ion Politics essay of 1995-96 where I anticipated allowing bits
>> of 10 ce= nts.
&= gt;> Assassination Market did not explain a lot of what I had considered=
>&= gt; necessary for a functioning such system. How can a potential donor trus= t the
= >> system? How can a potential 'predictor' trust the system?&nb= sp; How to collect?I
>> never tried to research into this, because I judged= that to do so would be a
>> little too 'hot' for me to do.

>i am curious how you a= rrived at a determination of what was "too hot" :)

>= ;*he says with a toe on something very hot...*

It was more of an educated guess. I knew that I hadn't= been promoting AP, yet

somebody was s= eemingly trying to bring it into reality, or saying they were. The

most likely scenario, given that this p= erson had contacted me, is that he (they) were

simply trying to discredit me. To avoid that happening, and = to 'kill two birds with

one stone', I = threw that hot potato to Andy Greenberg. (I was not at all happy with=

Greenberg, who greatly misrepre= sented 'facts' about me in his book). I figured

that Greenberg wouldn't do anything with this contact, whi= ch would allow me to use

his negligenc= e to discredit him. Very surprisingly, to me, Greenberg actually wrot= e

an article and published in Forbes! = Literally within hours, many dozen other

articles appeared in other media, and in the end it probably= was hundreds of articles

over the nex= t year or so.

>> Did any donations actually appear on the
>> sys= tem after its initial announcement? Did any new names/targets appear?=

>there were a few targets added, "bid" transactions successful,
>yet my at= tempt to add my own life to list was for naught. :/
>maybe i didn't pay enough= ... ?
= > https://blockchainbdgpzk.onion/address/1P6yannm= 6Rx9kkMH5LxmAsi1GdZ4JZG73T

I expected to, within a few weeks or months, read many articl= es publishing details. But no,

a= ll the rest were seemingly just rehashes of Greenberg's. So, I learn= ed very little. But

I _DID_ lear= n that that system wouldn't be successful: At the very least, it woul= d have had

to convince the public that= they could trust the system to operate reliably, and that never

occurred.

T= he only public criticism I voiced was the fact that the system didn't accep= t individual donations

lower than 1 BT= C. Most people would be willing to throw a penny, nickel, dime, quart= er, or

dollar into a wishing well. &nb= sp;But nearly $1000? Highly unlikely. It was one choice that vi= rtually

guaranteed failure, even= if everything else was done right.

&n= bsp;I am now, however, paying attention to Auger and Ethereum, which if the= y meet their implied

promises, will ac= tually do the job.
Jim Bell

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