Many great inventions were co-discoveries - calculus - evolution by natural-selections, etc. I have to wonder if APster markets isn't another one. Clearly Mongo knew about them though regarding them as a bug rather than a feature. Then STIFFS dotcom started sometime in the 1990's. Jim Bell's deathly silence every time they get mentioned is beginning to look suspicious. Another claimant / pretender / carpetbagger is the libertarian moron, Robin Hanson. Claims he was hawking networked prediction marts around various corporations in the early-mid 90's. WL dead-enders might want to claim him as a cypherpunk revolutionary. If the hairpiece fits... The Nazi-fag-Assmange-libertarian-moron credo is certainly clear enough by now... " From each according to their gullibility - to each according to their greed "