On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Anonymous wrote:
I would like to see e-cash gambling on US Presidential elections/primaries [as is currently done in London & Moscow]. There was an interesting W$J article that pointed out how the odds in these gambling houses track the results of elections more accurately (from thousands of miles away) than Gallup & Roper ever have, (and without calling me at suppertime)<g>. The
Idea Futures. (This has already been mentioned in this thread) There is an outfit calling itself Ideosphere that is planning a commercial version of an Idea Futures. It is certainly fairer than online roulette. You might want to try the game out yourself. Dr. Froomkin has a link to it on his homepage (I think).
It would accomplish the cypherpunk goals of setting important information free through use of our technology, it would encourage gamblers to learn about strong crypto, and it would use crypto for something besides child porn or drugs, which will be good PR for us. There will, of course, be
Incidentally there are a lot of crypto related claims being played (which is natural considering the number of cpunks in the game).